swag
名词 n.
动词 v.
英文释义
名词 n.
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Stolen goods; the booty of a burglar or thief; boodle.
— The swag, is a term used in speaking of any booty you have lately obtained, be it of what kind it may, except money; as where did you lumber the swag? that is, where did you deposit the stolen property? To carry the swag is to be the bearer of the stolen goods to a place of safety.
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Alternative letter-case form of SWAG; a wild guess or ballpark estimate.
— I can take a swag at the answer, but it may not be right.
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Style; fashionable appearance or manner.
— Now this dude got swag, and he was pushing up on me but, it wasn't like we was kicking it or anything!
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A loop of draped fabric.
— He looked in bewilderment at number 24, the final house with its regalia of stucco swags and bows.
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Something that droops like a swag.
— Detective Inspector Douglas Browne, the flesh of whose cheeks hung in swags, had the friendly aspect of a large brown-eyed dog.
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Branded handout, freebies, or giveaways, often distributed at conventions; merchandise.
— "Make sure to take some swag on your way out!" I called. He stooped a bit in mid-trot and snatched a small gold bag out of the basket at the door. The contents were mostly shit, a few drink tickets to the Well of Souls, VIP status at Convent, that sort of thing.
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A low point or depression in land; especially:; A place where water collects; a low, wet place where the land has settled.
— Whenever the muddy water would accumulate in the swag the water from the well in question would become muddy[…] After the water in the swag had all disappeared through the sink-hole the well water would again become clear.
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The possessions of a bushman or itinerant worker, tied up in a blanket and carried over the shoulder, sometimes attached to a stick.
— He tramped for years till the swag he bore seemed part of himself to him.
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A low point or depression in land; especially:; A pass, gap or sag in a mountain ridge.
— […] the Stoll household were hoeing corn high up on a bench or "swag" of the mountain facing the home, where there was newer and richer ground than in the abandoned fields in its rear.
- A small single-person tent, usually foldable into an integral backpack.
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A large quantity (of something).
— New Zealand wasted a swag of chances to lose their opening women′s hockey World Cup match.
- A shop and its goods; any quantity of goods.
动词 v.
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To (cause to) sway.
— 1790, William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The Argument, p. 1, Hungry clouds swag on the deep
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To travel on foot carrying a swag (possessions tied in a blanket).
— He told me that times had been bad at Invercargill, and that he had started for fresh pastures, had worked his passage up as mate in a small craft from the south, and, arriving in Port Underwood, had swagged his calico tent over the hill, and was now living in it, pitched in the manuka scrub.
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To transport stolen goods.
— Well, one night we were rather hard up and we wanted a good feed, so five or six of us set out, along with a great stout fellow, and we actually stole a whole sheep that was hanging at a butcher's door, and the big chap swagged it home.
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To droop; to sag.
— so laid, they are more apt in swagging down, to pierce with their points, then in the jacent Posture
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To decorate (something) with loops of draped fabric.
— Dior wouldn’t be Dior without the swagged ball gown[…].
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To transport in the course of arrest.
— 17 I was cooking crack, turned Abz' flat to a science lab 18, when my door got banged Like servery knows and throws them bags Two handcuffs on the hands on a circle van when I got swagged Seven day lost in cell, confinement, disobey lawful order
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To install (a ceiling fan or light fixture) by means of a long cord running from the ceiling to an outlet, and suspended by hooks or similar.
— Hooks come with screws for use in plaster or wood and toggles for use in wallboard. One hook should be sufficient to swag a lamp from a ceiling outlet.
词汇关系
词源
词源 1
From Middle English *swaggen, swagen, swoggen, probably from Old Norse sveggja (“to swing, sway”), from Proto-Germanic *swinganą (“to swing”). Compare dialectal Norwegian svaga (“to sway, swing, stagger”).
词源 2
Clipping of swagger. A common folk etymology is that the word derives from an acronym for "she wants a gentleman", "secretly we are gay" or other phrases.
词源 3
From 18th c. British thieves' slang, from the noun use of Etymology 1 above, "a swaying, an uneven motion." A folk etymology, particularly for the handouts definition, is “stuff we all get”.
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