Definition of Baggage

Baggage

The clothes, tents, utensils, and provisions of an army.

The trunks, valises, satchels, etc., which a traveler carries with him on a journey; luggage.

Purulent matter.

Trashy talk.

A man of bad character.

A woman of loose morals; a prostitute.

A romping, saucy girl.

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Baggage Quotations

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
Charles Dudley Warner

In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.
William Congreve

I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics.
Chris Patten

I believe that behind both the person who weighs 400 pounds and the one who weighs 85 there is a lot of baggage, and it has nothing to do with their bodies.
Kirstie Alley

But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media.
Zbigniew Brzezinski

I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it's too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective - your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else.
Sean Bean

In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could just devote my energies to encouraging people to find their true selves.
Dirk Benedict

You carry your country with you, it's part of your baggage.
Roy Thomson

One of the problems that we have as American journalists is that we bring the American cultural baggage with us and we plop it down and it follows us around and that's just a fact of life.
John Pomfret

Winston was a bit of a challenge, all right, from a lot of different perspectives. It wasn't just the culture or the class divide or the historical baggage - it was also the age difference. We had to see if I could be aged-up legitimately, without it becoming some sort of hokey acting challenge.
Brendan Gleeson

One of the things I noticed more in this draft than in any recent drafts was the importance of the character issue. Players who had baggage, like Justice, fell much farther than his talent dictated. But a lot of coaches didn't want to take the chance.
Ron Jaworski

Well, you know, what's better? To play a character who stays stuck in the same baggage year after year, or to play a character who gets beyond that and goes to a new level?
Andreas Katsulas

Kids - in a really good way - can talk about their differences without the baggage that adults have.
Jim McKay

I like people who are still actively creating in their life, who aren't set, I don't feel like I'm set. And I don't have any baggage, for better or worse. I don't have any plants or pets or kids. I can lock the door and go. I need to be with somebody for whom that's okay.
Dana Delany

Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?
Steven Pinker

The film Punch - Drunk Love is how you see the world when you're in love. You don't see somebody's psychological baggage necessarily, you see the person walking out of the light.
Emily Watson

Crim has baggage: expectation, history, responsibility.
Pat Mastelotto

We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
Vernor Vinge

I do look a bit different because Dudley was a very piggish character and about three years ago I lost quite a considerable amount of weight. It means that I can lead a normal life without the baggage of people running after me and shouting things at me.
Harry Melling

I've actually been given a great gift. When I walk into an audition with a director, I'm carrying no baggage. They haven't seen me in anything, even though I've done nine films.
Jessica Chastain

Knowing that you're the one who's been rejected, God it makes you feel isolated. I defy anybody not to be a bit upset. I felt as though I'd walked into the house trailing all this baggage.
Anthea Turner

Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would have said it was a host that none could understand.
Ferdowsi

I am hoping the four new players can bring in some energy and fresh enthusiasm because they do not have the baggage that comes from being part of a losing side.
Andy Pick

Being a Brady comes with it's pleasures and its baggage. I'm not one given to a lack of privacy and invasion.
Christopher Knight

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions. A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.
John Hannah

For my eightieth year warns me to pack up my baggage before I leave life.
Marcus Terentius Varro

A poet's cultural baggage and erudition can interfere with a poem.
Douglas Dunn

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Baggage Translations

baggage in Afrikaans is bagasie
baggage in Danish is bagage
baggage in Dutch is bagage
baggage in French is effets, colis
baggage in Italian is bagaglio
baggage in Norwegian is bagasje
baggage in Portuguese is bagagem
baggage in Spanish is equipajes, equipaje
baggage in Swedish is bagage

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