handbag

English

A handbag

A handbag being held

Etymology

hand +‎ bag. The music genre is named from women dancing around a pile of their handbags in nightclubs.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈhændbæɡ/

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Noun

handbag (plural handbags)

1. (UK and Canada) A small bag used by women (or sometimes by men) for carrying various small personal items.
2. (uncountable) An anthemic subgenre of house music of the late 1980s, often with booming vocals.

Synonyms

• (bag used by women): purse (North American)
• (subgenre of house music): diva house, handbag house

Hyponyms

• man-bag, murse

Derived terms

• hardbag
• man-bag

Translations

small bag used by women

• Albanian: çantë dore (sq) m, kuletë (sq) f
• Breton: sac'h-dorn (br) m
• Catalan: bossa de mà (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 皮包 (cmn) (píbāo)

• Czech: kabelka (cs) f
• Danish: håndtaske (da) c
• Dutch: handtas (nl) m and f
• Finnish: käsilaukku (fi)
• French: sac à main (fr) m
• German: Handtasche (de) f
• Haitian Creole: valiz
• Hungarian: kézitáska (hu)
• Indonesian: tas tangan (id)
• Italian: borsetta (it) f

• Japanese: ハンドバッグ (ja) (handobaggu)
• Luxembourgish: Posch (lb) f
• Malay: beg tangan (ms)
• Norwegian: håndveske (no) m
• Polish: torebka f
• Russian: сумочка (ru) (súmočka) f, ридикюль (ru) (ridikjúl') m, сумка (ru) (súmka) f
• Slovak: kabelka (sk) f
• Slovene: torbica f
• Spanish: bolsa f (Mexico), bolso m (Spain), bulto m (Southeastern Mexico), cartera f (Latin America)
• Swedish: handväska (sv) c
• Turkish: el çantası (tr)
• Ukrainian: сумочка (uk) (sumochka) f
• Uzbek: sumka (uz)
• Vietnamese: túi xách tay (vi), bị cầm tay (vi)

Verb

handbag (third-person singular simple present handbags, present participle handbagging, simple past and past participle handbagged)

1. (UK) (transitive, humorous) Figuratively, to hit with a handbag; to attack verbally or subject to criticism (used originally of Margaret Thatcher).

External links

• handbag at OneLook Dictionary Search
• Handbag on Wikipedia.Wikipedia