Handbag vs Tote - What's the difference?
handbag | tote |
(mainly Commonwealth) A small bag used by women (or sometimes by men) for carrying various small personal items.
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(uncountable) An anthemic subgenre of house music of the late 1980s, often with booming vocals.
(British, transitive, humorous) Figuratively, to hit with a handbag; to attack verbally or subject to criticism (used originally of ).
To carry or bear.
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, title= To add up; to calculate a total.
(British) A pari-mutuel machine; a totalizator
*1892 , Banjo Paterson,
*:He was a humorist of note and keen at repartee,
*:He laid the odds and kept a "tote ", whatever that may be,
As nouns the difference between handbag and tote
is that handbag is a small bag used by women (or sometimes by men) for carrying various small personal items while tote is a bag, specifically a tote bag.As verbs the difference between handbag and tote
is that handbag is figuratively, to hit with a handbag; to attack verbally or subject to criticism (used originally of Margaret Thatcher) while tote is to carry or bear.handbag
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (bag used by women) purse (North American) * (subgenre of house music) diva house, handbag houseHyponyms
* man-bag, murseDerived terms
* handbags at ten paces * hardbag * man-bagVerb
(handbagg)External links
* * ("handbag" on Wikipedia)tote
English
(wikipedia tote)Etymology 1
Verb
(tot)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.}}