bag, handbag, pocketbook, purse
(noun) a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women); “she reached into her bag and found a comb”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
handbag (plural handbags)
(mainly Commonwealth) A small bag used by women (or sometimes by men) for carrying various small personal items.
(uncountable) An subgenre of house music of the late 1980s, often with booming vocals.
• (bag used by women): purse (North American)
• (subgenre of house music): diva house, handbag house
• man-bag, murse
handbag (third-person singular simple present handbags, present participle handbagging, simple past and past participle handbagged)
(British, transitive, humorous) Figuratively, to hit with a handbag; to attack verbally or subject to criticism (used of Margaret Thatcher).
Source: Wiktionary
12 May 2025
(adjective) not tried or tested by experience; “unseasoned artillery volunteers”; “still untested in battle”; “an illustrator untried in mural painting”; “a young hand at plowing”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
