polybag

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-der.

Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús

Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor.

English poly-

Old Norse baggibor.?

Old French baguebor.?

Middle English bagge

English bag

English polybag

From poly- + bag.

Noun

polybag (plural polybags)

1. A plastic bag used to package a number of things together, but especially one used to package small supplementary publications that would otherwise fall out of a newspaper or magazine.

Verb

polybag (third-person singular simple present polybags, present participle polybagging, simple past and past participle polybagged)

1. To package in a plastic bag.