baggy en · ADJ · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- /ˈbæɡi/
- (Southern-England) audio
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).
Meanings
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Of clothing, very loose-fitting, so as to hang away from the body.
He’d made some of the company’s baggiest-ever pants in response, and even baggier ones were in the works.
2024 March 3, Jonah Weiner, “Why Are Pants So Big (Again)?”, in The New York Times Magazine: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.
2013 September 14, Steven Kurutz, “Caught in the Hipster Trap”, in The New York Times: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.
2002 January 29, Suzy Menkes, “PARIS FASHION : Wind of Change:New Formality With a Rugged Edge”, in The New York Times:
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Of or relating to a British music genre of the 1980s and 1990s, influenced by Madchester and psychedelia and associated with baggy clothing.
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
2011 October 18, Jon Savage, “Stone Roses reunion: three baggy playlists”, in The Guardian: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.
2015 October 1, Tshepo Mokoena, “Swim Deep: Mothers review – baggy indie kids embrace psych-pop”, in The Guardian:
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(figuratively) Of writing, etc.: overwrought; flabby; having too much padding.
a baggy book
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| baggier | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| baggiest | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Deriveds
bagginess · baggy green · baggily · baggy green cap
Descendants
Synonyms
relaxed · loose · saggy · loose · pouchy · full · saggy · loose-fitting · baggy · slack
Translations (19)
cs plandavý (of clothing, very loose-fitting) · cs volný (of clothing, very loose-fitting) · fi löysänä roikkuva (of clothing, very loose-fitting) · pdt lempich (of clothing, very loose-fitting) · bg безформен (of clothing, very loose-fitting) · ang pohhed (of clothing, very loose-fitting) · hi ढीला (of clothing, very loose-fitting) · es holgado (of clothing, very loose-fitting) · pt folgado (of clothing, very loose-fitting) · mi tāreparepa (of clothing, very loose-fitting) · ar فَضْفاض (of clothing, very loose-fitting) · bg провиснал (of clothing, very loose-fitting) · cmn 鬆鬆垮垮 /松松垮垮 (of clothing, very loose-fitting) · fi löysä (of clothing, very loose-fitting) · es guangocho (of clothing, very loose-fitting) · ar واسِع (of clothing, very loose-fitting) · ru мешкова́тый (of clothing, very loose-fitting) · de ausgeleiert (of clothing, very loose-fitting) · es guango (of clothing, very loose-fitting)