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

All 4 letters words made out of swag

swag wsag sawg aswg wasg awsg swga wsga sgwa gswa wgsa gwsa sagw asgw sgaw gsaw agsw gasw wags awgs wgas gwas agws gaws

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Definitions and meaning of swag

swag

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. (transitive, intransitive) 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.

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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, a place where water collects.

Derived terms

• swagger

Etymology 2

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

Noun

swag (uncountable)

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

Derived terms

• swag it out, swag it up

Etymology 3

From 18th c. British thieves' slang.

Noun

swag (countable and uncountable, plural swags)

1. (obsolete, thieves' cant) A shop and its goods; any quantity of goods. [18th c.]

   Synonym: stock

2. (uncountable, thieves' cant) Stolen goods; the booty of a burglar or thief; boodle. [18th c.]

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:booty
4. (uncountable, informal) Handouts, freebies, or giveaways, often distributed at conventions; merchandise. [late 20th c.]

   Synonyms: merch, schwag
5. (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.
6. (countable, Australia, by extension) A small single-person tent, usually foldable into an integral backpack.
7. (countable, Australia, New Zealand) A large quantity (of something).

Derived terms

• swagful, swagless
• (shop): rum swag, swag barrow
• (stolen goods): swag bag, swag chovey bloke, swagsman (“fence”)
• (itinerant's belongings): swagman

Verb

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

1. (Australia, transitive, intransitive) 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

Translations

Etymology 4

Noun

swag (plural swags)

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

   I can take a swag at the answer, but it may not be right.

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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