beanbag

See also: bean bag

English

Beanbags (toys)

Sacco

Alternative forms

• bean bag, bean-bag

Etymology

From bean +‎ bag.

Pronunciation

• enPR: bēnʹbăg, IPA^(key): /ˈbiːnbæɡ/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

beanbag (plural beanbags)

1. A small cloth bag filled with drybeans, used as a toy or for exercising the hands.

   Synonym: hacky sack

   • 1992, Rick Altman, Sound theory, sound practice, page 40:

     Does it bounce around like a superball in a hollow cavity? Or does it rapidly lose its force, like a beanbag hitting a pillow?

2. A type of juggling ball usually made from leather or cloth stuffed with dry beans.
3. (slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
4. (slang, derogatory) An idiot.
5. (furniture) Ellipsis of beanbag chair.

Derived terms

• bean-bag baton
• bean-bag chair
• beanbag chair
• beanbag race
• beanless bag
• beanless bag chair

Translations

piece of furniture

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 豆袋沙發 / 豆袋沙发 (dòudài shāfā), 懶人沙發 / 懒人沙发 (lǎnrén shāfā)

• Dutch: zitzak (nl) m
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: säkkituoli (fi)
• French: fauteuil-sac m
• German: Sitzsack m, Puff (de) m
• Hungarian: babzsák, babzsákfotel
• Italian: Sacco m
• Japanese: ビーンバッグ (bīnbaggu)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: pufe m
• Russian: бинбэ́г (ru) m (binbɛ́g), кре́сло-мешо́к n (kréslo-mešók), кре́сло-пуф m (kréslo-puf)
• Spanish: puf (es) m
• Swedish: saccosäck (sv) c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can

small cloth bag

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 豆袋 (dau⁶ doi^6-2)

  Mandarin: 豆袋 (dòudài)

• Finnish: papupussi
• German: Bean Bag m
• Hungarian: babzsák
• Japanese: ビーンバッグ (bīnbaggu)
• Spanish: bolsa para frejoles f

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Translations to be checked

• Norman: ^{(please verify)} pouque à pais f (Jersey)

Verb

beanbag (third-person singular simple present beanbags, present participle beanbagging, simple past and past participle beanbagged)

1. (transitive) To shoot with a baton round consisting of a bag of shot.
   • 2010, Joe McKinney, Dead City, page 21:

     I've beanbagged people before, and nobody has ever just stood right back up, even from a glancing blow.

Further reading

• beanbag on Wikipedia.Wikipedia