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Luggage vs Handbags - What's the difference?

luggage | handbags |

As nouns the difference between luggage and handbags

is that luggage is the bags and other containers that hold a traveller's belongings while handbags is .

As an interjection handbags is

(british|slang) said jocularly in response to a particularly derogatory, bitchy or catty dialogue; calm down; cool it.

luggage

English

(wikipedia luggage)

Noun

(-)
  • The bags and other containers that hold a traveller's belongings.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • I am gathering up my luggage , and preparing for my journey.
  • The contents of such containers.

    • Synonyms

    * baggage

    Derived terms

    * hold luggage * cabin luggage * hand luggage

    References

    English refractory feminine rhymes

    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."

    Related terms

    * (l)

    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!