baggy
/ˈbæɡi/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.16 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of clothing, very loose-fitting, so as to hang away from the body.
adj
Of or relating to a British music genre of the 1980s and 1990s, influenced by Madchester and psychedelia and associated with baggy clothing.
noun
A small plastic bag, as for sandwiches.
Example Sentences
- "When the YSL designer finally got to present Sunday, after the show tent pitched on a race course had been deemed unsafe, he had a surprise in store: the longest, bell-bottom pants since the start of the 1970s — and the baggiest since rapper chic."
- "The only way to safely avoid looking like a hipster, so far as I can tell, is to dress in oversize mesh jerseys bearing the logos of sports teams. Or to wear the blandest, baggiest, beige-est clothes possible, like a middle-aged tourist."
- "He’d made some of the company’s baggiest-ever pants in response, and even baggier ones were in the works."
- "Pop historian Jon Savage listens to the best of the Stone Roses and their contemporaries – from Baby Ford to the Sabres of Paradise – and creates the perfect set of baggy playlists"
- "The Birmingham band – now a five-piece after multi-instrumentalist James Balmont joined them – have ditched the loose and baggy guitar pop of 2013’s Where the Heaven Are We? in favour of psych-pop that contorts itself into pulsing Balearic acid house and motorik rhythms."
- "a baggy book"
Etymology
Etymology tree Old Norse baggibor.? Old French baguebor.? Middle English bagge English bag Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English baggy From bag + -y (adjectival suffix).
Usage
- British usage