wagon
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English [edit]
Alternative forms [edit]
- waggon (UK)
Etymology [edit]
From Dutch wagen, waghen, from Proto-Germanic *wagnaz. Compare the inherited doublet wain.
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
wagon (plural wagons)
- A four-wheeled cart for hauling loads.
- A child's riding toy, four-wheeled and pulled or steered by a long handle in the front.
- (US, Australia, slang) A station wagon (or SUV).
- (slang) A paddy wagon.
- A truck, or lorry.
- (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.”
- 1974, in Threshold, Issues 25–27,[1] Lyric Players Theatre, page 96:
Translations [edit]
cart
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child's riding toy
Derived terms [edit]
Terms derived from "wagon"
Descendants [edit]
Verb [edit]
wagon (third-person singular simple present wagons, present participle wagoning, simple past and past participle wagoned)
- (transitive) To transport by means of a wagon.
- (intransitive) To travel in a wagon.
See also [edit]
Wagon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
wagon in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Anagrams [edit]
Dutch [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From English waggon, from Dutch wagen. The pronunciation was likely influenced by French wagon, which was also borrowed from English.
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /ʋaˈɣɔn/
Noun [edit]
wagon m (plural wagons, diminutive wagonnetje)
- car (a railway carriage, a nonpowered unit in a railroad train)
French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From English waggon, from Dutch wagen.
Pronunciation [edit]
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wagon (file)
Noun [edit]
wagon m (plural wagons)
- a railway carriage (note that the word voiture is preferred for passenger transport)
Old Saxon [edit]
Alternative forms [edit]
- wogon
- -wagian, found in witharwagian (to flow back).
Etymology [edit]
From Proto-Germanic *wagōnan.
Verb [edit]
wagon
- to sway
Polish [edit]
Noun [edit]
wagon m
- car (a railway carriage, a nonpowered unit in a railroad train)
Declension [edit]
Categories:
- English terms derived from Dutch
- English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- English nouns
- American English
- Australian English
- English slang
- Irish English
- English dated terms
- English derogatory terms
- English verbs
- Dutch terms derived from English
- Dutch twice-borrowed terms
- Dutch nouns
- French terms derived from English
- French terms derived from Dutch
- French nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French countable nouns
- Old Saxon terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old Saxon verbs
- Polish nouns
