baggage

baggage
baggage
1. Baggage and luggage overlap in use, although baggage generally connotes something heavier and bulkier and less easily transportable by hand. Some collocations are more or less fixed, e.g. excess baggage, baggage claim, baggage handler; and a few British rail stations still have left-luggage offices (rarely, though occasionally, left-baggage). In the US a person who looks after the baggage of passengers on a train or at a hotel is called a baggageman. At air terminals hand baggage and hand luggage seem to be freely used in both BrE and AmE.
2. In figurative uses, baggage is always used:

• She was not an intellectual; her philosophical baggage was comparatively light. —K. O. Morgan, 1990

• They dispatched their excess female baggage at the Strand Gate where the Sheriff was closing in on them, and then headed across the quicksands to Rye —R. Long, 1990

• He was loudly proclaiming the need for a ‘new’left that had the courage to throw off the ideological baggage of the past —Logos Journal, 2004.


Modern English usage. 2014.

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