satchel
pronunciation
How to pronounce satchel in British English:
UK [ˈsætʃəl]
How to pronounce satchel in American English:
US [ˈsætʃəl]
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- Noun:
- luggage consisting of a small case with a flat bottom and (usually) a shoulder strap
Word Origin
- satchel
- satchel: [14] A satchel is etymologically a ‘small sack’ or bag. The word comes via Old French sachel from Latin saccellus, a diminutive form of saccus ‘bag’ (source of English sack). Its specific application to a ‘bag for carrying school books’ emerged in the mid 16th century, and is reflected by Shakespeare in Jaques’s ‘Seven ages of man’ speech in As You Like It 1600: ‘And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel and shining morning face, creeping like snail unwillingly to school’.=> sachet, sack
- satchel (n.)
- "small bag," mid-14c., from Old French sachel, from Late Latin saccellum "money bag, purse," diminutive of Latin sacculus, diminutive of saccus "bag" (see sack (n.1)).
Example
- 1. Going to school with a satchel on my back !
- 2. She annotates every corner of her script , which resides in a satchel with a dictaphone , a notebook , a camera , a pencil case , snapshots and any other tools she thinks she 'll need .
- 3. And the kid in the palm tree , empty satchel .
- 4. You don 't need to be carrying around so much shit that you need a " man purse " or " man satchel " .
- 5. He went off to school with a satchel over his shoulder .