Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

warm fuzzy

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.61 in modern English

Syllables: war-m -fuzzy
IPA

38

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A good impression; a feeling of comfort, happiness or trust.

Informal

noun

A sense of accomplishment after performing an act.

Derogatory; Informal

Example Sentences

"I suppose they are a reputable business, but I didn't get a warm fuzzy from their salesman."
"Nostalgia. Walks down memory lane fill me with warm fuzzies—right up there with a warm bubble bath and a good cup of café mocha."
"There is no payoff to getting the warm fuzzies in the presence of rats, snakes, mosquitoes, cockroaches, herpes simplex and the rabies virus."
"John picks up litter in our neighborhood because it gives him warm fuzzies."

Etymology

Coined by Claude Steiner in 1970 for his children's story A Warm Fuzzy Tale, where it is used in a technical sense to illustrate a concept, namely, positive stroke, that is used in a type of therapy called transactional analysis.

Usage

Inflected Forms

warm fuzzies (plural)

Antonyms

cold prickly

Questions

What does warm fuzzy mean?: A good impression; a feeling of comfort, happiness or trust.
Where does warm fuzzy come from?: Coined by Claude Steiner in 1970 for his children's story A Warm Fuzzy Tale, where it is used in a technical sense to illustrate a concept, namely, positive stroke, that is used in a type of therapy called transactional analysis.

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