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OLD BAG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does old bag mean? 

OLD BAG (noun)
  The noun OLD BAG has 1 sense:

1. an ugly or ill-tempered womanplay

  Familiarity information: OLD BAG used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


OLD BAG (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An ugly or ill-tempered woman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

bag; old bag

Context example:

he was romancing the old bag for her money

Hypernyms ("old bag" is a kind of...):

disagreeable woman; unpleasant woman (a woman who is an unpleasant person)


 Context examples 


“Let us see, old bag of bones; let us see what it is that you have under your arm!”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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