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Re:Laptops to Stay in Bags as TSA Brings New Technology to A... by dingaling on Sunday March 31, 2019 @08:32AM (#19535248)
'baggies' is an interesting development in the English language, a colloquialism that is longer than its base word.
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Re:Laptops to Stay in Bags as TSA Brings New Technology to A... by KozmoNau7 on Sunday March 31, 2019 @11:23AM (#19536035)
It's just a diminutive form of "bag", ie. "small bags"?

Just like you have for instance "telefonino" as the diminutive of "telefono" in Italian, literally "small telephone". And in German you add -chen or -lein to words to create the diminutive, so "Hund" becomes "Hündchen" (adding an umlaut as well, if applicable).

Generally I think it's very common for a lot of languages to add a cutesy suffix to the base word, in order to create the diminutive.

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