Wagon

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /wæɡ.É™n/
• Rhymes: -æɡən

Alternative forms

• waggon UK

Origin

From Dutch wagen, waghen, from Proto-Germanic *wagnaz. Compare the inherited doublet wain.

Full definition of wagon

Noun

1. A four-wheeled cart for hauling loads.
2. A freight car on a railway.
3. A child's riding toy, four-wheeled and pulled or steered by a long handle in the front.
4. (US, Australia, slang) A station wagon (or SUV).
5. (slang) A paddy wagon.
6. A truck, or lorry.
7. (Ireland, slang, dated, derogatory) A derogatory term for a woman; bitch; slapper; cow.
• 1974, in Threshold, Issues 25–27, Lyric Players Theatre, page 96:“I’m not like that; I know what you mean but I’m not like that. When you said a field I nearly laughed because I was in a field last week with Ursula Brogan behind the football pitch. We followed Cissy Caffery there and two boys from the secondary. She’s a wagon. She did it with them one after the other, and we watched.”
• 1990, Roddy Doyle, The Snapper, Penguin Group (1992), ISBN 978-0-14-017167-9:pages 30–31: —Don’t know. ——She hates us. It’s prob’ly cos Daddy called her a wagon at tha’ meetin’. ¶ Sharon laughed. She got out of bed. ¶ —He didn’t really call Miss O’Keefe a wagon, she told Tracy. —He was only messin’ with yeh.
• 1998, Neville Thompson, Two Birds/One Stoned, Poolbeg:page 8: “Well fuck yeh, yeh stuck-up little wagon.”

Derived terms

Descendants

• German: Waggon
• Spanish: vagón

Verb

1. (transitive) To transport by means of a wagon.
2. (intransitive) To travel in a wagon.

Anagrams

• gowan
• wonga