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wagon

Pronunciation: /ˈwæɡən/

The English word “wagon” has 9 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A heavier four-wheeled (normally horse-drawn) vehicle designed to carry goods (or sometimes people).
  2. A shopping cart.
  3. A vehicle (wagon) designed to transport goods or people on railway.
  4. A woman of loose morals, a promiscuous woman, a slapper.
  5. An obnoxious woman; a bitch; a cow.
  6. A kind of prefix used in de Bruijn notation.
  7. Buttocks.

verb

  1. To load into a wagon in preparation for transportation; to transport by means of a wagon.
  2. To travel in a wagon.

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Dutch wagen, from Old Dutch *wagan, from Proto-West Germanic *wagn, from Proto-Germanic *wagnaz (“wagon”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to transport”). Generally displaced native cognate wain, from Old English wæġn, of which it is a doublet. Related also to way, weigh. Sense 8 (“woman of loose morals; obnoxious woman”) is probably a derogatory and jocular reference to a…

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