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wagger-pagger-baggers

wagger-pagger-baggers is the plural 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

Questions about wagger-pagger-baggers

What is wagger-pagger-baggers the plural of?
Wagger-pagger-baggers is the plural of wagger-pagger-bagger.

Words near wagger-pagger-baggers in the dictionary

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

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