baggage
noun
[ ˈbaɡɪdʒ ]
• suitcases and bags containing personal belongings packed for travelling; luggage.
• "we collected our baggage before clearing customs"
Similar:
luggage,
suitcases,
cases,
bags,
trunks,
things,
belongings,
possessions,
kit,
equipment,
effects,
goods and chattels,
impedimenta,
paraphernalia,
accoutrements,
rig,
tackle,
gear,
stuff,
traps,
clobber,
trek,
dunnage,
• past experiences or long-held attitudes perceived as burdensome encumbrances.
• "the emotional baggage I'm hauling around"
• a cheeky or disagreeable girl or woman.
• "she was a mercenary little baggage"
Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French bagage (from baguer ‘tie up’), or bagues ‘bundles’; perhaps related to bag.
check
noun
• an examination to test or ascertain accuracy, quality, or satisfactory condition.
• "a campaign calling for regular checks on gas appliances"
Similar:
examination,
inspection,
scrutiny,
scrutinization,
check-up,
perusal,
study,
investigation,
probe,
dissection,
analysis,
assessment,
inquiry,
test,
trial,
assay,
monitoring,
once-over,
going-over,
look-see,
anatomization,
• a stopping or slowing of progress.
• "there was no check to the expansion of the market"
• a move by which a piece or pawn directly attacks the opponent's king and by which the king may be checkmated.
• US spelling of cheque.
• a token of identification for left luggage.
• a counter used as a stake in a gambling game.
• another term for tick1 (sense 1 of the noun).
• a part of a piano which catches the hammer and prevents it retouching the strings.
• a crack or flaw in timber.
Origin:
Middle English (originally as used in the game of chess): the noun and exclamation from Old French eschec, from medieval Latin scaccus, via Arabic from Persian šāh ‘king’; the verb from Old French eschequier ‘play chess, put in check’. The sense ‘stop or control’ arose from the use in chess, and led (in the late 17th century) to ‘examine the accuracy of’.
