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First published 1934 (SND Vol. I).
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BAG, v., pa.t. of v. Big = to build; commonly bigget.Sc. c.1700 This is no my Ain House in Jacobite Minstrelsy (1829) 23:
My daddy bag his housie well.

[See Big, v. Bag may have arisen in imitation of pa.tenses hat, ran, fan, etc., from hit, rin, fin.]

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