Luggage

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late 16th century (originally denoting inconveniently heavy baggage): from lug1 + -age.


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1590s, lug(“to drag”) +‎ -age, literally “that which is lugged, dragged around”. [1] Duplicate -g- is to clarify pronunciation of the vowel ‘u’ (which is pronounced unchanged from lug). Compare baggage.


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luggage (n.)

1590s, from lug (v.) "to drag" + -age; so, literally "what has to be lugged about" (or, in Johnson's definition, "any thing of more weight than value"). In 20c., the usual British word for "baggage belonging to passengers."