7/2/2023 0 Comments How to pss in the game scum![]() The source is probably the French expression Acheter chat en poche "buy a cat in a bag," which is attested in 18c. ![]() To let the cat out of the bag "reveal the secret" is from 1760. ![]() This also probably explains modern slang in the bag "assured, certain" (1922, American English). Many figurative senses, such as the verb meaning "to kill game" (1814) and its colloquial extension to "catch, seize, steal" (1818) are from the notion of the game bag (late 15c.) into which the product of the hunt was placed. To be left holding the bag (and presumably nothing else), "cheated, swindled" is attested by 1793. Meaning "fold of loose skin under the eye" is by 1867. Meaning "person's area of interest or expertise" is 1964, from African-American vernacular, from jazz sense of "category," probably via notion of putting something in a bag. In some senses perhaps from Old French bague, which is also from Germanic.Īs disparaging slang for "woman" it dates from 1924 in modern use (but various specialized senses of this are much older, and compare baggage). OED rejects connection to other Germanic words for "bellows, belly" as without evidence and finds a Celtic origin untenable. 1200, bagge, probably from Old Norse baggi "pack, bundle," or a similar Scandinavian source.
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