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Definition wagon

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch wagen, from Middle Dutch wagen, from Old Dutch *wagan, from Proto-Germanic *wagnaz (“wagon”), from Proto-Indo-European *wo??nos (“wagon, primitive carriage”), from *we??- (“to transport”). Cognate with Danish vogn (“wagon”), German Wagen (“vehicle; wagon”), Saterland Frisian Woain (“wagon”), West Frisian wein (“wagon”), Swedish vagn (“wagon”). Doublet of wain (inherited from Old English wæ?n) and related also to way, weigh.

Sense 9 (“woman of loose morals; obnoxious woman”) is probably a derogatory and jocular reference to a woman being “ridden”, that is, mounted for the purpose of sexual intercourse.

The verb is derived from the noun.

Noun

wagon (plural wagons)

1. A four-wheeled cart for hauling loads. [from late 15th c.]
2. A four-wheeled child's riding toy, pulled or steered by a long handle attached to the front.
3. An enclosed vehicle for carrying goods or people; (by extension) a lorry, a truck.
4. An enclosed vehicle used as a movable dwelling; a caravan.
5. Short for dinner wagon (“set of light shelves mounted on castors so that it can be pushed around a dining room and used for serving”).
6. (slang) Short for paddy wagon (“police van for transporting prisoners”).
7. (rail transport) A freight car on a railway.
8. (chiefly Australia, US, slang) Short for station wagon (“type of car in which the roof extends rearward to produce an enclosed area in the position of and serving the function of the boot (trunk)”); (by extension) a sport utility vehicle (SUV); any car.
9. (Ireland, slang, derogatory, dated) A woman of loose morals, a promiscuous woman, a slapper; (by extension) a woman regarded as obnoxious; a bitch, a cow.

Verb

wagon (third-person singular simple present wagons, present participle wagoning, simple past and past participle wagoned)

1. (transitive, chiefly US) To load into a wagon in preparation for transportation; to transport by means of a wagon.
2. (intransitive, chiefly US) To travel in a wagon.

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