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Swag. Q From Daryl Sawatzky: Today the word swag is used by radio announcers to describe free advertising products and prize give-aways. I thought it was a relatively new use for a word that previously described a type of lamp. Today however, I saw it again in a book written by C S Lewis in 1958: ‘Some young hooligans...had already sold the swag, and some had previous convictions against them’. Would you have any insight into the origins of this word? A Swag has a surprising number of meanings. It has been around for at least 200 years for a thief’s plunder or booty, the sense that C S Lewis was using.
The idea of give-aways is more recent, but even that has a longer history than one might guess from the comparatively recent American usage you quote. It looks as though all these can be traced back to a word imported into Middle English from Scandinavian svagga, to sway (in fact, it’s the origin of sway as well). Originally, a thief’s swag was a bag of stolen clothes or the like. Online Etymology Dictionary. Criminal case - Russian translation - bab.la English-Russian dictionary. Criminal case - Английский-Русский Словарь - Glosbe. Visual Discovery & Social Curation Network. Определение Mogul - Перевод Mogul. CORPUS CONCORDANCE OUTPUT. Results for inform ideas in other resources.
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