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Is swag a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word swag is a Scrabble US word. The word swag is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

S1W4A1G2

Is swag a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word swag is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

S1W4A1G2

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Yes. The word swag is a Words With Friends word. The word swag is worth 9 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

S1W4A1G3

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4-letter words (3 found)

GAWS,SWAG,WAGS,

3-letter words (7 found)

AGS,GAS,GAW,SAG,SAW,WAG,WAS,

2-letter words (3 found)

AG,AS,AW,

You can make 13 words from swag according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of swag

swag

English

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /swæɡ/
  • Rhymes: -æɡ

Etymology 1

From Middle English *swaggen, swagen, swoggen, probably from Old Norse sveggja (“to swing, sway”). Compare dialectal Norwegian svaga (“to sway, swing, stagger”).

Verb

swag (third-person singular simple present swags, present participle swagging, simple past and past participle swagged)

  1. (ambitransitive) To (cause to) sway.
    Synonyms: sway, lurch
    • 1790, William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The Argument, p. 1,[2]
      Hungry clouds swag on the deep
  2. (intransitive) To droop; to sag.
  3. (transitive) To decorate (something) with loops of draped fabric.
  4. (transitive) To install (a ceiling fan or light fixture) by means of a long cord running from the ceiling to an outlet, and suspended by hooks or similar.
Derived terms

Noun

swag (plural swags)

  1. (window coverings) A loop of draped fabric.
  2. Something that droops like a swag.
  3. A low point or depression in land; especially:
    1. A place where water collects; a low, wet place where the land has settled.
    2. A pass, gap or sag in a mountain ridge.
Derived terms
  • swagger

Etymology 2

Clipping of swagger. A common folk etymology is that the word derives from an acronym for "she wants a gentleman", "secretly we are gay" or other phrases.

Noun

swag (uncountable)

  1. (slang) Style; fashionable appearance or manner.
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Etymology 3

From 18th c. British thieves' slang.

Noun

swag (countable and uncountable, plural swags)

  1. (uncountable, thieves' cant) Stolen goods; the booty of a burglar or thief; boodle. [18th c.]
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:booty
  3. (uncountable, informal) Handouts, freebies, or giveaways, often distributed at conventions; merchandise. [late 20th c.]
    Synonyms: merch, schwag
  4. (countable, Australia, dated) The possessions of a bushman or itinerant worker, tied up in a blanket and carried over the shoulder, sometimes attached to a stick.
  5. (countable, Australia, by extension) A small single-person tent, usually foldable into an integral backpack.
  6. (countable, Australia, New Zealand) A large quantity (of something).
  7. (obsolete, thieves' cant) A shop and its goods; any quantity of goods. [18th c.]
    Synonym: stock
Derived terms
  • swagful, swagless
  • (shop): rum swag, swag barrow
  • (stolen goods): swag bag, swag chovey bloke, swagsman (“fence”)
  • (itinerant's belongings): swagman
Translations

Verb

swag (third-person singular simple present swags, present participle swagging, simple past and past participle swagged)

  1. (Australia, ambitransitive) To travel on foot carrying a swag (possessions tied in a blanket). [From 1850s.]
  2. To transport stolen goods.
  3. To transport in the course of arrest.
Derived terms
  • swaggie
  • swagman
  • swag it
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Etymology 4

Noun

swag (plural swags)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of SWAG; a wild guess or ballpark estimate.
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Anagrams

  • AWGs, GWAS, WAGs, wags

Middle English

Noun

swag

  1. alternative form of swage

Old Frisian

Etymology

From a word referring to the fence around a pasture; cf. Old Norse sveigr (“supple branch, headkerchief”), ultimately from a root meaning to bend or twist.

Noun

swāg f

  1. pasture

Descendants

  • Dutch: Zwaag
  • Frisian: sweach, swaech

Further reading

  • van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “zwaag”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

Source: wiktionary.org