wagger-pagger-bagger

noun
/ˌwæɡə ˌpæɡə ˈbæɡə/UK/ˌwæɡəɹ ˌpæɡəɹ ˈbæɡəɹ/US

Etymology

From wastepaper basket, humorously modified by adding -agger to the first letters of waste, paper, and basket; compare -er (suffix forming informal or slang equivalents of words).

Definitions

  1. A wastepaper basket.

    • Waste-paper baskets – (I remember certain earnest youths at Oxford who used to call them wagger-pagger-baggers) – are to Philip Guedalla one of the most essential perquisites of the man of letters.

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