wagger-pagger-bagger
English
Etymology
Jocular modification of wastepaper basket. See -er.
Pronunciation
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Noun
wagger-pagger-bagger (plural wagger-pagger-baggers)
- (UK, slang, dated, public schools) A wastepaper basket.
- 1948, John Courtenay Trewin, Plays of the year: Volume 1:
- (Taking flowers from vase) If you don't mind, therefore, I shall deposit them in the wagger-pagger-bagger. (Drops flowers into waste paper basket.)
- 2009, H. S. Cross, Riding: Volume 2, page 364:
- If only he hadn't woken himself in the night with ludicrous, fey notions which now thankfully lay at the bottom of the wagger-pagger-bagger—he punched the splintery door of the shed—damn it all to the bloodiest—
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