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Carryall vs Handbag - What's the difference?

carryall | handbag |

As nouns the difference between carryall and handbag

is that carryall is (north american) a large bag; a holdall while handbag is (mainly commonwealth) a small bag used by women (or sometimes by men) for carrying various small personal items.

As a verb handbag is

(british|transitive|humorous) figuratively, to hit with a handbag; to attack verbally or subject to criticism (used originally of ).

carryall

English

Noun

(wikipedia carryall) (en noun)
  • (North American) A large bag; a holdall
  • (North American, dated) A light, covered carriage drawn by a single horse
  • (US) Any of several types of automobile, usually a station wagon or van built on a truck chassis.

    • Quotations

    * 1823 John Brannan - Official Letters of the Military and Naval Officers of the United States . . . *: I had despatched colonel Wells early in the evening in a carryall to procure intelligence. * 2002 Rochelle Hollander Schwab - A Departure from the Script *: Naomi . . . unpacked several rolled flannel pouches that looked like those I kept my good silver in, and put them into a canvas carryall .

    handbag

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mainly Commonwealth) A small bag used by women (or sometimes by men) for carrying various small personal items.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, with something of the stately pose which Richter has given his Queen Louise on the stairway, and the light of the reflector fell full upon her.}}
  • (uncountable) An anthemic subgenre of house music of the late 1980s, often with booming vocals.

    • Synonyms

    * (bag used by women) purse (North American) * (subgenre of house music) diva house, handbag house

    Hyponyms

    * man-bag, murse

    Derived terms

    * handbags at ten paces * hardbag * man-bag

    Verb

    (handbagg)
  • (British, transitive, humorous) Figuratively, to hit with a handbag; to attack verbally or subject to criticism (used originally of ).

    • External links

    * * ("handbag" on Wikipedia)