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{{also|SWAG}}
==English==
{{was wotd|2011|October|14}}

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/swæɡ/|a=GA}}
* {{audio|en|en-au-swag.ogg|a=AU}}
* {{rhymes|en|æɡ|s=1}}

===Etymology 1===
From {{inh|en|enm|*swaggen}}, {{m|enm|swagen}}, {{m|enm|swoggen}}, probably from {{der|en|non|sveggja|t=to swing, sway}}. Compare dialectal {{cog|no|svaga|t=to sway, swing, stagger}}.

====Verb====
{{en-verb}}

# {{lb|en|ambitransitive}} To (cause to) [[sway]].
#: {{syn|en|sway|lurch}}
#* '''1790''', {{w|William Blake}}, ''{{w|The Marriage of Heaven and Hell}},'' The Argument, p.{{nbsp}}1,<sup>[https://archive.org/details/the-marriage-of-heaven-and-hell/page/n1/mode/1up]</sup>
#*: Hungry clouds '''swag''' on the deep
#* {{quote-book|en|title=Kwanzaa for Conrad & the Survival Tango|author=Odie Hawkins; Zola Salena-Hawkins|year=2013|page=104|ISBN=1481766325|passage=Soap/soak the mop into the mop bucket, squeeze it out slightly, '''swag''' it back and forth across the piss stained concrete, mop it dry.}}
# {{lb|en|intransitive}} To [[droop]]; to [[sag]].
#* {{RQ:Wotton Elements of Architecture|passage=so laid, they are more apt in '''swagging''' down, to pierce with their points, then in the jacent Posture}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1530|author=w:John Palsgrave|title=L'esclarcissement de la langue francoyse
|passage=I '''swagge''' as a fatte persos belly '''swaggeth''' as he goth.}}
# {{lb|en|transitive}} To decorate (something) with [[loop]]s of draped [[fabric]].
#* {{quote-journal|en|date=January 29, 2009|author=Cathy Horyn|title=In Paris, a Nod to Old Masters| work=New York Times|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/29/fashion/29COUTURE.html| passage= Dior wouldn’t be Dior without the '''swagged''' ball gown{{...|, but while they were beautiful, with delicate vines of embroidery — there was more surprise and contemporary charm in slim satin cocktail dresses with open necklines, a dollop of draping and a half-hidden corset}}.}}
# {{lb|en|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.
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1991|author=Kalton C. Lahue; Cheryl Smith|title=Interior Lighting|page=19
|passage=Hooks come with screws for use in plaster or wood and toggles for use in wallboard. One hook should be sufficient to '''swag''' a lamp from a ceiling outlet.}}

=====Derived terms=====
{{col-auto|en|swagbelly|swag light|swag-shop}}

====Noun====
{{en-noun}}

# {{lb|en|window coverings}} A [[loop]] of [[drape]]d [[fabric]].
#* {{RQ:Hollinghurst Line|passage=He looked in bewilderment at number 24, the final house with its regalia of stucco '''swags''' and bows.}}
# Something that droops like a swag.
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2022| title=Lessons|author=Ian McEwan| page=18| passage=Detective Inspector Douglas Browne, the flesh of whose cheeks hung in '''swags''', had the friendly aspect of a large brown-eyed dog.}}
# A low point or [[depression]] in land; ''especially'':
## A place where water collects; a low, wet place where the land has settled.
##* {{quote-journal|en|year=1902|author=D. G. Simmons|title=The Influence of Contaminated Water in the Development of Diseases|journal=The American Practitioner and News|section='''34''': 182
|passage=Whenever the muddy water would accumulate in the '''swag''' the water from the well in question would become muddy{{...}} After the water in the '''swag''' had all disappeared through the sink-hole the well water would again become clear.}}
##* {{quote-book|en|year=1941|author=Jesse Stuart|title=Men of the Mountains|page=273
|passage=This peach tree is th' big tree that allus bore so many peaches. It's th' one in th' low '''swag''' by th' old rotted white oak stump.}}
## A [[pass]], [[gap]] or [[sag]] in a mountain ridge.
##* {{quote-book|en|year=1927|author=Lucy S. Furman|title=The Lonesome Road|page=3
|text={{...}} the Stoll household were hoeing corn high up on a bench or "'''swag'''" of the mountain facing the home, where there was newer and richer ground than in the abandoned fields in its rear.}}
##* {{quote-book|en|year=1960|author=Joseph S. Hall|title=Smoky Mountain Folks|page=19
|passage=Finally he managed to grab hold of [the turkey's] legs, but as he did so, the turkey "riz" up into the air and carried him across a "'''swag'''" (gap) to the next mountain and courteously dropped him.}}
##* {{quote-book|en|year=1970|author=Harvey Broome|title=Earth Man|page=24
|passage=We dropped our packs in the low '''swag''' and began ascending the steep sides of the "puzzle" mountain.}}
##* {{quote-book|en|date=1972-02-17|author=Foxfire Fund, Inc.|title=The Foxfire Book: Hog Dressing, Log Cabin Building, Mountain Crafts and Foods, Planting by the Signs, Snake Lore, Hunting Tales, Faith Healing, Moonshining|publisher=Anchor|isbn=9780385073530|page=258
|text=Sometimes men would get on either side of a gap or '''swag''', set the dogs loose, and let them drive the deer through between them. Another way was for one man to take the dogs and drive the ridge. Other men would go to gaps or stands at{{nb...}}}}

=====Derived terms=====
* {{l|en|swagger}}

===Etymology 2===
{{clipping|en|swagger}}. A common {{glossary|folk etymology}} is that the word derives from an {{glossary|acronym}} for "secretly we are gay", or other phrases.<ref>{{cite-web|author=David P. Mikkelson|title=Did the Word ‘Swag’ Originate as an Acronym?|url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/swag/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20211128021352/https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/swag/|archivedate=28 November 2021|work={{w|Snopes.com}}|date=26 September 2012|accessdate=26 December 2019}}</ref>

====Noun====
{{en-noun|-}}

# {{lb|en|slang}} [[style|Style]]; [[fashionable]] appearance or [[manner]].
#* {{quote-text|en|year=2009|author=Mark Anthony Archer|title=Exile|page=119
|passage=Now this dude got '''swag''', and he was pushing up on me but, it wasn't like we was kicking it or anything!}}
#* {{quote-book|en|title=10 Amazing Gangnam Style Tips|author=Jack Goldstein; Jimmy Russell| year=2012| ISBN=1782343571| passage=They've got those dumb Kanye sunglasses that are $3 a pair at any skanky old market, they've go the word SWAG airbrushed onto them; these kids are hanging around listening to crunk records, throwing around sayings like “'''Swag''' it out”, “Turn my '''swag''' on”, “Flip the '''swag''' switch and homie” and even “Get out your sweaty '''swag''' length and push it deep inside me”. Let me tell you something - if I ever see those kids out in Gangnam I'll be caving their sorry heads in with my '''swag''' bat, or I'll be making out with their '''swag''' girlfriend while they're too busy smoking crack behind a brick wall because that's how we do things in Gangnam, sucker.}}

=====Derived terms=====
{{der2|en|{{l|en|swag it out}}, {{l|en|swag it up}}|swag out|swag up}}

=====Translations=====
{{trans-top}}
* Spanish: {{t|es|tipería|f}}
{{trans-bottom}}

===Etymology 3===
[[File:Corning ArtAndFeminism 2019 swag.jpg|thumb|Swag (3) distributed at a meetup]]
From {{C.|18}} British thieves' slang.

====Noun====
{{en-noun|~}}

# {{lb|en|obsolete|thieves' cant}} A [[shop]] and its [[goods]]; any quantity of goods. {{defdate|18th c.}}
#: {{syn|en|stock}}
# {{lb|en|uncountable|thieves' cant}} Stolen goods; the [[booty]] of a [[burglar]] or [[thief]]; [[boodle]]. {{defdate|18th c.}}
#: {{syn|en|Thesaurus:booty}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1819|author=w:James Hardy Vaux| title=Memoirs of James Hardy Vaux| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=axAFAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA216| volume=1| page=216| passage=''The '''swag''''', is a term used in speaking of any booty you have lately obtained, be it of what kind it may, except money; as where did you ''lumber the '''swag'''?'' that is, where did you deposit the stolen property? To carry ''the '''swag''''' is to be the bearer of the stolen goods to a place of safety.}}
#* {{RQ:Dickens Oliver Twist|chapter=[[s:Oliver Twist (1838)/Volume 1/Chapter 19|Chapter 19]]|text=“It′s all arranged about bringing off the '''swag''', is it?” asked the Jew. Sikes nodded.}}
#* {{RQ:Allingham China Governess|chapter=Foreword|passage=&lsquo;I understand that the district was considered a sort of sanctuary,&rsquo; the Chief was saying. &lsquo;{{nb...}}&nbsp;They tell me there was a recognized '''swag''' market down here.&rsquo;}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|date=November 22 1971|author=Frank E. Emerson|title=They Can Get It For You BETTER Than Wholesale|journal=New York Magazine|page=38
|passage=He was on his way to call on other dealers to check out their '''swag''' and to see if he could trade away some of his leftover odds and ends.}}
# {{senseid|en|handout}} {{lb|en|uncountable|informal}} [[handout|Handouts]], [[freebie]]s, or [[giveaway]]s, often distributed at [[convention]]s; [[merchandise]]. {{defdate|late 20th c.}}
#: {{syn|en|merch|schwag}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2011|author=Mark Henry|title=Battle of the Network Zombies| passage="Make sure to take some '''swag''' on your way out!" I called.<br/>He stooped a bit in mid-trot and snatched a small gold bag out of the basket at the door. The contents were mostly shit, a few drink tickets to the Well of Souls, VIP status at Convent, that sort of thing.}}
#* {{quote-web|en|url=https://www.thestar.com/life/2022/09/28/go-on-take-that-key-or-coaster-branding-execs-hope-you-do.html|work=Toronto Star|passage=You may hesitate before you pocket the '''swag''', wondering if doing so is OK. Worry not: Hospitality industry folks say they’re delighted when people feel compelled to take one of these as a keepsake.|title=Why free swag at bars, hotels is so important to brands|date=2022-09-28|author=Kim Cook}}
# {{lb|en|countable|Australia|dated}} The [[possession]]s of a [[bushman]] or itinerant worker, tied up in a [[blanket]] and carried over the [[shoulder]], sometimes attached to a stick.
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1896|author=Henry Lawson|chapter=Out Back|title=In the Days When the World was Wide, and Other Verses|location=Sydney|publisher=Angus and Robertson| oclc=1750138| page=49| passage=He tramped for years till the '''swag''' he bore seemed part of himself to him.}}
# {{lb|en|countable|Australia|by extension}} A small single-person tent, usually foldable into an integral backpack.
# {{lb|en|countable|Australia|New Zealand}} A large quantity (of something).
#* {{quote-journal|en|date=August 31 2010|title=Hockey: Black Sticks lose World Cup opener|titleurl=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10670091|journal=w:The New Zealand Herald
|passage=New Zealand wasted a '''swag''' of chances to lose their opening women′s hockey World Cup match.}}

=====Derived terms=====
* {{l|en|swagful}}, {{l|en|swagless}}
* {{sense|shop}} {{l|en|rum swag}}, {{l|en|swag barrow}}
* {{sense|stolen goods}} {{l|en|swag bag}}, {{l|en|swag chovey bloke}}, {{l|en|swagsman||fence}}
* {{sense|itinerant's belongings}} {{l|en|swagman}}

=====Translations=====
{{trans-top|stolen goods}}
* German: {{t+|de|Diebesgut|n}}, {{t+|de|Beute|f}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|botín|m}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-see|promotional freebies|freebie}}

====Verb====
{{en-verb}}

# {{lb|en|Australia|ambitransitive}} To travel on foot carrying a swag (possessions tied in a blanket). {{defdate|From 1850s.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1880|author=James Coutts Crawford|title=Recollections of Travel in New Zealand and Australia|pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=EIwrAAAAIAAJ&q=%22swagged%22%7C%22swagging%22+australia+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&dq=%22swagged%22%7C%22swagging%22+australia+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=Nq9oJv7rhS&sig=oOOuScFP6OHs7LNSUBr2h9poePU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-mZxUK71O6noiAep84DYAg&redir_esc=y|page=259
|passage=He told me that times had been bad at Invercargill, and that he had started for fresh pastures, had worked his passage up as mate in a small craft from the south, and, arriving in Port Underwood, had '''swagged''' his calico tent over the hill, and was now living in it, pitched in the ''manuka'' scrub.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1976|author=Pembroke Arts Club|title=The Anglo-Welsh Review|pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=3dE7AQAAIAAJ&q=%22swagged%22%7C%22swagging%22+australia+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&dq=%22swagged%22%7C%22swagging%22+australia+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=fre1iB498h&sig=Ul9T-AKPtyViAyu_Vhst3vT0UfQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=X25xULObBcmhiAeI-YHIBw&redir_esc=y|page=158
|passage=That such a man was '''swagging''' in the Victoria Bush at the age of fifty-one requires explanation.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2006|author=w:Inga Clendinnen|title=The History Question: Who Owns the Past?: {{w|Quarterly Essay}}|issue=23|pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=8QKoqxXaMSoC&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=%22swagged%22%7C%22swagging%22+australia+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=NY9Ue5ZsLw&sig=OfD-EcshQq_ELxtZAJop0XsuVG8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-mZxUK71O6noiAep84DYAg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22swagged%22%7C%22swagging%22%20australia%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false|page=3
|passage=The plot is straightforward. A swagman is settling down by a billabong after a hard day′s '''swagging'''.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2011|author=Penelope Debelle|title=Red Silk: The Life of Elliott Johnston QC|pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=1pmPmY7HH3UC&pg=PA21&lpg=PA21&dq=%22swagged%22%7C%22swagging%22+australia+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=m15B1HmVAn&sig=9uGHey2BfwYSncWCyaut_2wfUh0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-mZxUK71O6noiAep84DYAg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22swagged%22%7C%22swagging%22%20australia%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false|page=21
|passage=Over the Christmas of 1939, just three months after Britain and Australia had declared war on Germany, they went '''swagging''' together for a week and slept out under the stars in the Adelaide Hills, talking, walking and reading.}}
# To transport stolen goods.
#* {{quote-book|en|title=Six years in the prisons of England|author=Frank Henderson| year=1869| page=225| passage=Well, one night we were rather hard up and we wanted a good feed, so five or six of us set out, along with a great stout fellow, and we actually stole a whole sheep that was hanging at a butcher's door, and the big chap '''swagged''' it home.}}
# To transport in the course of [[arrest]].
#* {{quote-song|en|date=8-2-2024|lyricist=VD/Dripz of {{w|67 (gang)|67}}|title=Why|url=https://genius.com/67-why-lyrics|time=[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcfjPSXPW8A&list=UUwxK6Ba2IzJXw8gW2ZPjHSw&t=183 3:03]|passage=17 I was cooking crack, turned Abz' flat to a science lab<br/>18, when my door got banged<br/>Like servery knows and throws them bags<br/>Two handcuffs on the hands on a circle van when I got '''swagged'''<br/>Seven day lost in cell, confinement, disobey lawful order}}

=====Derived terms=====
* {{l|en|swaggie}}
* {{l|en|swagman}}
* {{l|en|swag it}}

=====Translations=====
{{trans-top|burglar's or thief's booty; a boodle}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|saalis}}
* French: {{t+|fr|butin|m}}
* German: {{t+|de|Sore|f}}, {{t+|de|Diebesgut|n}}, {{t+|de|Beute|f}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|szajré}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|bottino|m}}, {{t+|it|malloppo|m}}, {{t+|it|refurtiva|f}}, {{t+|it|maltolto|m}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|łup|m}}, {{t+|pl|zdobycz|f}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|награбленное|n}}, {{t+|ru|добы́ча|f}}
* Serbo-Croatian: {{t+|sh|plijen|m}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|handouts, freebies, or giveaways}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|mainoslahja}}, {{t+|fi|krääsä}}
* French: {{t+|fr|babiole|f}}
* German: {{t+|de|Werbegeschenk|n}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|omaggio|m}}, {{t+|it|campione|m}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|халя́ва|f}}, {{t+|ru|дармовщина|f}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|bushman's possessions in a drape}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|nyytti}}
* French: {{t+|fr|balluchon}}, {{t+|fr|baluchon|m}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|batyu}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|fagotto|m}}, {{t+|it|averi}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|узел|m}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|large quantity (of something)}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|massa}}, {{t+|fi|kasa}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|mucchio|m}}, {{t+|it|vagonata|f}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|куча|f}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|loop of draped fabric}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|(slang) style; a fashionable appearance or manner}}
* Chinese:
*: Cantonese: {{t|yue|型|tr=jing4}} {{qualifier|較為貶義，流行用語}}
* German: {{t+|de|Swag|m}}
* Hindi: {{t|hi|स्वाग|m|sc=Deva}}, {{t|hi|स्वैग|m|sc=Deva}}
* Norwegian:
*: Bokmål: {{t+|nb|stil|m}}, {{t+|nb|klasse|m}}, {{t|nb|swag|m}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|styl|m}}, {{t+|pl|maniera|f}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|ginga}}
* Spanish: {{t|es|tumbao|m}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|stil|c}}, {{t+|sv|klass}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|low point or depression in land}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|kuoppa}}
{{trans-bottom}}

===Etymology 4===

====Noun====
{{en-noun}}

# {{alternative case form of|en|SWAG}}; a wild [[guess]] or [[ballpark estimate]].
#: {{ux|en|I can take a '''swag''' at the answer, but it may not be right.}}

=====Translations=====
{{trans-see|SWAG}}

===References===
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===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=agsw|AWGs|GWAS|WAGs|wags}}

{{C|en|Crime|Fabrics|Landforms}}

==Middle English==

===Noun===
{{head|enm|noun}}

# {{alt form|enm|swage}}

==Old Frisian==

===Etymology===
From a word referring to the fence around a pasture; cf. Old Norse {{m|non|sveigr||supple branch, headkerchief}}, ultimately from a root meaning to bend or twist.

===Noun===
{{ofs-noun|f|head=swāg}}

# {{l|en|pasture}}

====Descendants====
* {{desc|nl|Zwaag}}
* Frisian: {{m|fy|sweach}}, {{m|fy|swaech}}

===Further reading===
* {{R:nl:Etymologiebank|zwaag}}