wagon

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. A heavier four-wheeled (normally horse-drawn) vehicle designed to carry goods (or sometimes people).
2. Abbreviation of toy wagon; A child's riding toy, with the same structure as a wagon (sense 1), pulled or steered by a long handle attached to the front.
3. A shopping cart.
4. A vehicle (wagon) designed to transport goods or people on railway.
5. Short for dinner wagon (“set of light shelves mounted on castors so that it can be pushed around a dining room and used for serving”).
6. (slang) Short for paddy wagon (“police van for transporting prisoners”).
7. (slang) Short for station wagon (“type of car in which the roof extends rearward to produce an enclosed area in the position of and serving the function of the boot (trunk)”); (by extension) a sport utility vehicle (SUV); any car.
8. (slang) A woman of loose morals, a promiscuous woman, a slapper; (by extension) a woman regarded as obnoxious; a bitch, a cow.
9. A kind of prefix used in de Bruijn notation.
10. (slang) Buttocks.

Verb

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

Concepts

wagon

charrette

chariot

voiture

familiale

panier à salade

break

char

fourgon de police

waguine

carrosse

coche

Coupé comme

wa‧gon

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈwæɡ(ə)n/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Borrowed 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- (“to transport”). Doublet of wain. Related also to way, weigh.
Sense 8 (“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.

Phrases

At the end the man tipped the wagon .

À la fin, l'homme a fait basculer le wagon.