The story
- Old French · derived frombagage
- Middle English · inherited frombagage
- English todaybaggage
From Middle English bagage, from Old French bagage, baguage, from bague (“bundle, sack”), of Germanic/North Germanic origin, probably from the same ultimate source as Old Norse baggi (“pack, bundle”). Compare also bag. By surface analysis, bag + -age. The old meaning of "nasty woman" likely derives from the sense of "something awkward to be carried" (compare faggot).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.