wagon

See also Wagon

English

A horse-drawn, covered wagon.

A station wagon.

Alternative forms

• waggon (UK)

Etymology

From Dutch wagen, waghen, from Proto-Germanic *wagnaz. Compare wain.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /wæɡ.ən/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -æɡən

Noun

wagon (plural wagons)

1. A four-wheeled cart for hauling loads.
2. A child's riding toy, four-wheeled and pulled or steered by a long handle in the front.
3. (US, Australian, slang) A station wagon (or SUV).
4. (slang) A paddy wagon.
5. A truck, or lorry.
6. (Ireland, slang, dated, derogatory) A derogatory term for a woman; bitch; slapper; cow.
   • 1974, in Threshold, Issues 25–27,^[1] Lyric Players Theatre, page 96:

     “I’m not like that; I know what you mean but I’m not like that. When you said a field I nearly laughed because 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.”

   • 1990, Roddy Doyle, The Snapper, Penguin Group (1992), ISBN 978-0-14-017167-9:

     pages 30–31: —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.

   • 1998, Neville Thompson, Two Birds/One Stoned,^[2] Poolbeg:

     page 8: “Well fuck yeh, yeh stuck-up little wagon.”

Translations

cart

Afrikaans: wa (af) Arabic: عربة (ʕárba) f. Catalan: carro (ca) m., cotxe (ca) m. Chinese: 運貨馬車 (yùnhuòmǎchē) Dutch: wagen (nl) Finnish: vaunu (fi), vankkuri (fi) French: charrette (fr) f. German: Wagen (de) Irish: féan (ga) m., vaigín (ga) m. Italian: carro (it) m. Japanese: 荷馬車 (にばしゃ, nibasha) Korean: 짐마차 (jimmacha)

Latin: carrus (la) m. Navajo: tsinaabąąs Norwegian: vogn (no) m. and f. Portuguese: carro (pt) m. Romanian: car (ro) n., căruță (ro) f. Russian: телега (ru) (teléga) f. Scottish Gaelic: cairt (gd) f. Spanish: carro (es) m., coche (es) m. Sumerian: 𒈥𒁍𒁕 (MAR.BU.DA) Swedish: vagn c., kärra c. Taos: łòtúna

child's riding toy

Catalan: cotxet (ca) m. Finnish: kärry (fi)

Navajo: tsin naabąąs yazhí

Derived terms

Terms derived from "wagon"

broom wagon bandwagon chuck wagon covered wagon fall off the wagon

fix someone's wagon hitch one's wagon to a star jump on the bandwagon meat wagon on the bandwagon

on the wagon off the wagon paddy wagon waggoner

Descendants

• German: Waggon

Verb

wagon (third-person singular simple present wagons, present participle wagoning, simple past and past participle wagoned)

1. (transitive) To transport by means of a wagon.
2. (intransitive) To travel in a wagon.

See also

• Wagon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• wagon in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.

Anagrams

• gowan
• wonga

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Dutch

wagon

Etymology

From English waggon, from Dutch wagen. The pronunciation was likely influenced by French wagon, which was also borrowed from English.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʋaˈɣɔn/

Noun

wagon m. (plural wagons, diminutive wagonnetje)

1. car (a railway carriage, a nonpowered unit in a railroad train)

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French

wagon

Etymology

From English waggon, from Dutch wagen.

Pronunciation

• wagon

  (file)

Noun

wagon m. (plural wagons)

1. a railway carriage (note that the word voiture is preferred for passenger transport)

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Polish

wagon

Noun

wagon m.

1. car (a railway carriage, a nonpowered unit in a railroad train)

Declension

    declension of wagon

	singular	plural
nominative	wagon	wagony
genitive	wagonu	wagonów
dative	wagonowi	wagonom
accusative	wagon	wagony
instrumental	wagonem	wagonami
locative	wagonie	wagonach
vocative	wagonie	wagony