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waggin

waggin is the obsolete spelling of wagon.

Meaning of wagon

Noun

wagon (plural wagons)

  1. A heavier four-wheeled (normally horse-drawn) vehicle designed to carry goods (or sometimes people).
    • These wagons and pack-mules will include transportation for all personal baggage, mess chests, cooking utensils, desks, papers, &c.1864 June 28, T. S. Bowers (Assistant Adjutant General), “No. 51. [Special Orders No. 44.]”, in Report of the Quartermaster General of the United States Army to the Secretary of War, for the Year...
  2. (New-England, US) A shopping cart.
  3. A vehicle (wagon) designed to transport goods or people on railway.
    • Various methods have been suggested for effecting this transfer by a bodily removal of whole wagons; either by lifting the bodies from one set of wheels to another, or transferring the wagons, wheels and all, to some kind of truck; but practically these projects wholly fail. […] It is calculated...1846, Thornton [Leigh] Hunt, Unity of the Iron Network: Showing how the Last Argument for the Break of Gauge, Competition, is at Variance with the True Interests of the Public, 2nd edition, London...
  4. (Ireland, dated, derogatory, slang) A woman of loose morals, a promiscuous woman, a slapper.
    • […] I was in a field last week with Ursula Brogan behind the football pitch. We followed Cissy Caffery there and two boys from the secondary. She’s a wagon. She did it with them one after the other, and we watched.1985, Eugene McCabe, “Roma”, in Heaven Lies about Us: Stories, 1st U.S. edition, New York, N.Y.; London: Bloomsbury, published 2004, →ISBN, page 57
    Synonyms:
    NB: All terms are usually pejorative unless stated otherwise., 304, alley cat, alleycat, amorette, amoret, amorosa, article, Athanasian wench, blowsabella
  5. (Ireland, broadly, derogatory, slang) An obnoxious woman; a bitch; a cow.
    • —Don’t know. —She hates us. It’s prob’ly cos Daddy called her a wagon at tha’ meetin’. / Sharon laughed. She got out of bed. / —He didn’t really call Miss O’Keefe a wagon, she told Tracy. —He was only messin’ with yeh.1990, Roddy Doyle, The Snapper, London: Secker and Warburg, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, 1992, →ISBN, pages 30–31
  6. A kind of prefix used in de Bruijn notation.

See all 10 meanings of wagon

Forms of waggin

pluralwaggins

Questions about waggin

What is waggin the obsolete spelling of?
Waggin is the obsolete spelling of wagon.

Words near waggin in the dictionary

  1. waggie
  2. waggier
  3. waggies
  4. waggiest
  5. waggily
  6. waggin
  7. wagging
  8. wagging a finger
  9. wagging hemp
  10. wagging it
  11. wagging the dog

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