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
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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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA