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wagger-pagger

Syllables: wag·ger-pag·gerUK/ˌwæɡə ˈpæɡə/US/ˌwæɡəɹ ˈpæɡəɹ/

wagger-pagger is the ellipsis of wagger-pagger-bagger.

Meaning of wagger-pagger-bagger

Noun

wagger-pagger-bagger (plural wagger-pagger-baggers)

  1. (British, dated, humorous, slang) A wastepaper basket.
    • When young Oxford suddenly began to substitute "er" for the ordinary termination of a word, it was not making slang so much as diversifying and idiotising conversation. Thus a bedmaker was transformed to a "bedder," breakfast to "brekker," and the waste-paper basket, by a desperate effort, became...[1916, E[dward] V[errall] Lucas, “Of Slang—English and American”, in Cloud and Silver, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC, page 96

Forms of wagger-pagger

pluralwagger-paggers

Origin of wagger-pagger

Ellipsis of wagger-pagger-bagger.

Words that rhyme with wagger-pagger

9 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about wagger-pagger

What is wagger-pagger the ellipsis of?
Wagger-pagger is the ellipsis of wagger-pagger-bagger.
How do you pronounce wagger-pagger?
Wagger-pagger is pronounced /ˌwæɡə ˈpæɡə/ (UK).

Words near wagger-pagger in the dictionary

  1. waggel
  2. waggels
  3. Waggener
  4. Waggeners
  5. wagger
  6. wagger-pagger
  7. wagger-pagger-bagger
  8. wagger-pagger-baggers
  9. waggeries
  10. waggers
  11. waggery

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wagger-pagger (page history and authors); wagger-pagger-bagger (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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