wagger-pagger-bagger

English

Etymology

Jocular modification of wastepaper basket. See Oxford "-er".

Noun

wagger-pagger-bagger (plural wagger-pagger-baggers)

  1. (Britain, slang, dated, public schools) A wastepaper basket.
    • 1948, John Courtenay Trewin, Plays of the year: Volume 1
      (Taking flowers from vase) If you don't mind, therefore, I shall deposit them in the wagger-pagger-bagger. (Drops flowers into waste paper basket.)
    • 2009, H. S. Cross, Riding: Volume 2 (page 364)
      If only he hadn't woken himself in the night with ludicrous, fey notions which now thankfully lay at the bottom of the wagger-pagger-bagger—he punched the splintery door of the shed—damn it all to the bloodiest—
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