Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

polybag

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.45 in modern English

Syllables: poly-bag
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A plastic bag used to package a number of things together, but especially one used to package small supplementary publications that would otherwise fall out of a newspaper or magazine.

verb

To package in a plastic bag.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor. English poly- Old Norse baggibor.? Old French baguebor.? Middle English bagge English bag English polybag From poly- + bag.

Inflected Forms

polybags (plural) polybags (present, singular) polybagging (participle, present) polybagged (participle, past) polybagged (past)

Questions

What does polybag mean?: A plastic bag used to package a number of things together, but especially one used to package small supplementary publications that would otherwise fall out of a newspaper or magazine.
Where does polybag come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor. English poly- Old Norse baggibor.? Old French baguebor.? Middle English bagge English bag English polybag From poly- + bag.

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