wagon

Meanings

Noun

• A four-wheeled cart for hauling loads.
• A four-wheeled child's riding toy, pulled or steered by a long handle attached to the front.
• An enclosed vehicle for carrying goods or people; a lorry, a truck.
• An enclosed vehicle used as a movable dwelling; a caravan.
• A freight car on a railway.
• ; a sport utility vehicle (SUV); any car.
• A woman of loose morals, a promiscuous woman, a slapper; a woman regarded as obnoxious; a bitch, a cow.
• A kind of prefix used in de Bruijn notation.
• Buttocks.

Verb

• To load into a wagon in preparation for transportation; to transport by means of a wagon.
• To travel in a wagon.

Origin

• Borrowed from Dutch wagen, from Middle Dutch wagen, from Old Dutch *wagan, from Proto-West Germanic *wagn, from Proto-Germanic *wagnaz ("wagon"), from Proto-Indo-European *woǵʰnos ("wagon, primitive carriage"), from *weǵʰ-.
• Cognate with Danish vogn ("wagon"), German Wagen ("vehicle; wagon"), Saterland Frisian Woain ("wagon"), West Frisian wein ("wagon"), Swedish vagn ("wagon"). wain (inherited from Old English wæġn) 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.