Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
bags
plural of bag
(often in the phrase 'bags of') A large quantity.
(slang) Loose-fitting trousers.
bags
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bag
bags (third-person singular simple present bagses, present participle bagsing, simple past and past participle bagsed)
(Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) To reserve for oneself.
• (US) have dibs on
• bagsy
• (dated) fains
bags
Used to claim something for oneself, especially in the combination 'Bags I'.
• GBAs, gabs
Source: Wiktionary
Bag, n. Etym: [OE. bagge; cf. Icel. baggi, and also OF. bague, bundle, LL. baga.]
1. A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; as, a bag of meal or of money.
2. A sac, or dependent gland, in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance; as, the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents; the bag of a cow.
3. A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament. [Obs.]
4. The quantity of game bagged.
5. (Com.)
Definition: A certain quantity of a commodity, such as it is customary to carry to market in a sack; as, a bag of pepper or hops; a bag of coffee. Bag and baggage, all that belongs to one.
– To give one the bag, to disappoint him. [Obs.] Bunyan.
Bag, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bagged(p. pr. & vb. n. Bagging]
1. To put into a bag; as, to bag hops.
2. To seize, capture, or entrap; as, to bag an army; to bag game.
3. To furnish or load with a bag or with a well filled bag. A bee bagged with his honeyed venom. Dryden.
Bag, v. i.
1. To swell or hang down like a full bag; as, the skin bags from containing morbid matter.
2. To swell with arrogance. [Obs.] Chaucer.
3. To become pregnant. [Obs.] Warner. (Alb. Eng. ).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.