wagger-pagger-bagger

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˌwæɡə ˌpæɡə ˈbæɡə/    美 /ˌwæɡəɹ ˌpæɡəɹ ˈbæɡəɹ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A wastepaper basket. British,dated,humorous,slang
    — 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 the "wagger pagger bagger"—to be subsequently surpassed when the Prince of Wales [later Edward VIII] arrived at Magdalen, and was known as the "Pragger Wagger": […]

词形变化

wagger-pagger-baggers plural

词源

From wastepaper basket, humorously modified by adding -agger to the first letters of waste, paper, and basket; compare -er (suffix forming informal or slang equivalents of words).
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