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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The trunks, bags, parcels, and suitcases in which one carries one's belongings while traveling; luggage.
  2. n. The movable equipment and supplies of an army.
  3. n. Superfluous or burdensome practices, regulations, ideas, or traits.
  4. n. A woman prostitute.
  5. n. An impudent girl or woman.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The bags, trunks, valises, satchels, packages, etc., and their contents, which a traveler requires or takes with him on a journey: now usually called luggage in Great Britain. In law, baggage includes whatever the passenger takes with him for his personal use or convenience, according to the habits or wants of the particular class to which he belongs, with reference either to the immediate necessities or to the ultimate purpose of the journey. (Chief Justice Cockburn.)
  2. n. Specifically The portable equipment, including the tents, clothing, utensils, and other necessaries, of an army or other moving body of men; impedimenta.
  3. n. Trash; rubbish; refuse.
  4. Trashy; rubbishy; refuse; worthless.
  5. n. A worthless person, especially a worthless woman; a strumpet.
  6. n. A playful, saucy young woman: a flirt: usually in conjunction with such qualifying words as cunning, sly, saucy, etc.
  7. Worthless; vile: said of persons: as, a baggage fellow.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Luggage; traveling equipment
  2. n. Factors that restrict a person's freedom, often in an intellectual or psychological way
  3. n. A woman
  4. n. An army's portable equipment; its baggage train.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The clothes, tents, utensils, and provisions of an army.
  2. n. The trunks, valises, satchels, etc., which a traveler carries with him on a journey; luggage.
  3. n. Purulent matter.
  4. n. Trashy talk.
  5. n. A man of bad character.
  6. n. A woman of loose morals; a prostitute.
  7. n. A romping, saucy girl.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the portable equipment and supplies of an army
  2. n. cases used to carry belongings when traveling
  3. n. a worthless or immoral woman

Etymologies

  1. Middle English bagage, from Old French bague, bundle, perhaps of Germanic origin. Sense 4, perhaps from French bagasse, from Provençal bagassa, ultimately from Arabic baġīy, prostitute, from baġā, to fornicate; see bġy in Semitic roots.

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  • Yukka "Lately Puppetji has been reminded of the weight of the world on people's shoulders, the baggage we all carry with us from house to house, city to city, relationship to relationship, lifetime to lifetime. These illusory burdens we all carry ... This clutter that fills your mind."
    (http://puppetji.com/2010/02/new-socksang-travel-light-and-let-go-of-baggage/) Aug 9, 2011

  • mercy According to a few online dictionaries, 'baggage' is also an "immoral" or "impudent" woman, or a prostitute.

    The Free Dictionary (but not Merriam Webster) is one that lists this definition. Jul 6, 2008

‘baggage’ has been looked up 1789 times, added to 24 lists, commented on 2 times, and has a Scrabble score of 12.