Swag

Definition: Swag

Swag

Noun

1. (informal) valuable goods.

2. Goods or money obtained illegally.

Verb

1. Droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness.

2. Walk as if unable to control one's movements.

3. Sway heavily or unsteadily.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "swag" was first used: 1530. (references)

Note: Swag \Swag\, intransitive verb [imperfect & past participle. Swagged; Swagging.]. (Websters 1913)

Computing

Literature

Mining

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Swag

Booty

Noun: booty, spoil, plunder, prize, loot, swag, pickings; spolia opima, prey; blackmail; stolen goods.

Curvature

Verb: be curved; Adjective: curve, sweep, sway, swag, sag; deviate; curl, turn; reenter.

Descent

Tumble, trip, stumble, titubate, lurch, pitch, swag, topple, topple over, tumble over, topple down, tumble down; tilt, sprawl, plump down, come down a cropper.

Evolution

Verb: oscillate; vibrate, librate; alternate, undulate, wave; rock, swing; pulsate, beat; wag, waggle; nod, bob, courtesy, curtsy; tick; play; wamble, wabble; dangle, swag.

Expansion

Adjective: expanded; Verb: larger; (large; swollen; expansive; wide open, wide spread; flabelliform; overgrown, exaggerated, bloated, fat, turgid, tumid, hypertrophied, dropsical; pot bellied, swag bellied; edematous, oedematous, obese, puffy, pursy, blowzy, bigswoln, distended; patulous; bulbous; (convex); full blown, full grown, full formed; big; abdominous, enchymatous, rhipidate; tumefacient, tumefying.

Moderation

Tranquilize, pacify, assuage, appease, swag, lull, soothe, compose, still, calm, calm down, cool, quiet, hush, quell, sober, pacify, tame, damp, lay, allay, rebate, slacken, smooth, alleviate, rock to sleep, deaden, smooth, throw cold water on, throw a wet blanket over, turn off; slake; curb; (restrain); tame; (subjugate); smooth over; pour oil on the waves, pour oil on the troubled waters; pour balm into, mattre de l'eau dans son vin.

Obliquity

Noun: obliquity, inclination, slope, slant, crookedness; Adjective: slopeness; leaning; Verb: bevel, tilt; bias, list, twist, swag, cant, lurch; distortion; bend; (curve); tower of Pisa.

Pendency

Verb: be pendent; Adjective: hang, depend, swing, dangle; swag; daggle, flap, trail, flow; beetle.

Crosswords: Swag

Swag of Destiny (1913)

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Books

• Rollin' yer swag (reference)

• Swag (reference)

• Swag Town (reference)

• The romance of the swag (reference)

• The Swag and Tail Design and Pattern Book: Designs, Patterns and Step-By-Step Instructions (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Swag (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "swag": swag border ♦ swag man. Additional references.

Beginning with "swag": swag-bag, Swag-bellied.

Albanian

ryshfet (boodle, bribe, fix, graft, hush money, palm oil, rake off), pre (booty, chase, loot, prey, quarry, ravin, spoil, victim), plaçkë (belongings, chattel, clobber, cloth, loot, plunder, quarry, spoil, stuff, things, trap), gjë e vjedhur (booty). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مقدار كبير (bucket, mass, ream, sight, surfeit), ‏غنيمة (booty, capture, haul, loot, plunder, prey, prize, spoil, take, trophy), ‏تجول (gallivant, get about, knock about, move, peddle, ramble, stroll, tour, wander, wandering), ‏طاف (afloat, buoyant, circuit, cruise, floating, promenade, range, roam, roll, rove, scour, tour, travel), ‏صرة ثياب. (various references)

Bulgarian 

рушвет (boodle, bribe, douceur, graft, kickback, oil, payoff, payola, sweetener, vail), фестон (festoon, scallops), торба (bag, bagful, grab-all, pack, pouch, receptacle, sack, wallet), грабеж (despoilment, despoliation, looting, pillage, plunder, plunderage, rapine, ravin, ravishment, robbery, sack), голямо количество (acres, body, bushel, cart load, gob, mass, oodles, quantities, quantity, raft, slathers, stack, volume, volumes, wads), гирлянда (festoon, torse, wreath), вися (cool one's heels, dangle, hang, hang down, hang over, impend, loll, sag, swing), полюлявам се (rock, sway, swing), плячка (booty, fish, haul, kill, loot, pillage, plunderage, prey, prize, quarry, ravin, spoil, spoils, trophy), драперия (drape, drapery, fall, hangings, pelmet), драпирам (drape). (various references)

Chinese 

赃物. (various references)

Czech

tlumok (haversack, knapsack), lup (haul, loot, spoil). (various references)

Danish

gyngende bevaegelse (balancing, rocking, sway, swinging). (various references)

Farsi 

کوله پشتی (Knapsack, Pack), گودال (Cavern, Cavity, Grave, Hole, Pit, Puddle, Sinus, Trench, Vesicle), غارت (Booty, Despoliation, Havoc, Loot, Pillage, Plunder, Plunderage, Predatin, Ravage), تاب خوردن تلوتلوخوردن , تاب دادن (Crinkle), استخر (Lake, Pool, Stank), بنوسان دراوردن . (various references)

French

vagabonder, tas, flopée, butin, balancement (sway, swaying). (various references)

German

beute (accession, acquisition, asset, bag, beehive, booties, booty, catch, haul, hive, kill, loot, prey, quarry, spoils). (various references)

Greek 

κλοπιμαία (stolen goods). (various references)

Hebrew 

�"ת� ועעות (movement, swaying), �"ת� ו�"�"ות (reeling, stagger, swaying, tottering). (various references)

Hungarian

szajré (heist). (various references)

Italian

oscillazione (fluctuation, oscillation, rocking, swinging, vibration, waving), malloppo (bundle, loot). (various references)

Pig Latin

agsway

Portuguese

presa (acquisition, booty, chase, clutch, fang, gain, hold, nipper, prey, quarry, ravin, talon, tusk), ganhos (earnings, winnings). (various references)

Russian 

котомка, доходы от взяток, добыча грабителя. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zavežljaj (bundle, swagger), plen (booty, kill, plunder, prey, quarry, ravin, spoil, spoils, trophy), kolebanje (staggering, vacillation, wavering). (various references)

Spanish

hurto (larceny, petty larceny, pilferage, robbery, shoplifting, stealing, theft, thievery), botín (booty, haul, loot, pickings, plunder, spat, spoil). (various references)

Swedish

stöldgods, knyte (bunch, bundle, cluster, pack, sheaf, tie), bylte (pack). (various references)

Thai

เฟื่องระย้า, เ�"ินโซเซ (bumble, dodder along, lurch, roll, teeter), การเ�"ินโซเซ, ห่อสัม� าระ, ม่าน. (various references)

Turkish

yağma (booty, despoilment, despoliation, foray, loot, looting, pelf, pillage, plunder, pour, rapine, razzia, sack, sacking, spoil, spoliation), çiçekli asma dekor, çalıntı mal (spoil, thievery). (various references)

Ukrainian

хабар (boodle, bribe, brokage, douceur, gratification, gratuity, payola, rake off, sop, sugarplum), гроші, одержані нечесно, здобич (bag, booty, capture, catch, kill, loot, plunder, prey, quarry, ravin), пожитки (belongings, chattel). (various references)

Vietnamese 

của ăn cướp. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "swag": swage, swaged, swager, swagers, swages, swagged, swagger, swaggered, swaggerer, swaggerers, swaggering, swaggeringly, swaggers, swaggie, swaggies, swagging, swaging, swagman, swagmen, swags. (additional references)

Words containing "swag": asswage, asswaged, asswages, asswaging. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Swag" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: awag, cwag, Eswa, Hssag, sbag, scag, siag, smag, sqag, stwig, swagy, swao, swar, swav, swax, swaz, sweg, swiv, swog, Swraj, swug. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: wags.

-1 letter: gas, sag, saw, wag, was.

-2 letters: ag, as, aw.

+1 letter: gawks, gawps, gawsy, gnaws, swage, swags, swang, wages.

+2 letters: gawsie, gowans, jigsaw, sawing, sawlog, sewage, swaged, swager, swages, twangs, wagers, wagons, whangs, wigans, wrangs.

+3 letters: asswage, awnings, bagwigs, cogways, cowages, earwigs, gallows, gawkers, gawkies, gawkish, gawpers, geegaws, gewgaws, gnawers, goshawk, guffaws, hogwash, jigsawn, jigsaws, lawings, logways, sawlogs, sewages, shawing, snawing, stowage, swagers, swagged, swagger, swaggie, swaging, swagman, swagmen, swaying, tawsing, towages, waggers, waggish, waggles, waggons, wagsome, wangans, wangles, wanguns, washing, washrag, wastage, wasting, waughts, waxings, wigwags, wigwams.