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Handbags vs Satchel - What's the difference?

handbags | satchel |

As nouns the difference between handbags and satchel

is that handbags is plural of lang=en while satchel is a bag or case with one or two shoulder straps, especially used to carry books etc.

As an interjection handbags

is said jocularly in response to a particularly derogatory, bitchy or catty dialogue; calm down; cool it.

handbags

English

Noun

(head)
  • An insignificant fight or argument.
  • * 2011 , Daniel Sperling, Ant McPartlin: 'Pub scuffle was just handbags', Digital Spy
  • "It was just a scuffle in a pub, a bit of… handbags. Nine times out of ten, people are nice to us."

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • (British, slang) Said jocularly in response to a particularly derogatory, bitchy or catty dialogue; calm down; cool it.
  • Person A: Not another cheeseburger, Marcia?
    Person B: What's it to you?
    Person A: Well, you're fat enough as it is.
    Person B: You can talk!
    Person C: Ooh - handbags ladies!

    Synonyms

    * meow!

    satchel

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A bag or case with one or two shoulder straps, especially used to carry books etc.
  • * "Come, now, take yourselves off, like good boys and girls," he said; and the whole assemblage, dark and light, disappeared through a door into a large verandah, followed by Eva, who carried a large satchel , which she had been filling with apples, nuts, candy, ribbons, laces, and toys of every description, during her whole homeward journey.
  • Derived terms

    * besatcheled (rare)

    Anagrams

    * (l), , (l), (l)