单词 | snuggies |
释义 | snuggies in British English (ˈsnʌɡɪz) plural noun informal exceptionally warm underwear snuggies in American English (ˈsnʌgiz) US plural noun women's long, warm underwear snuggies in American English (ˈsnʌɡiz) noun (used with a plural v.) informal warm knitted underwear, esp. long underpants, for women or children Word origin [snug + -y2 + -s3]-s an ending marking nouns as plural (boys; wolves), occurring also on nouns that have no singular (dregs; entrails; pants; scissors), or on nouns that have a singular with a different meaning (clothes; glasses; manners; thanks). The pluralizing value of -s is weakened or lost in a number of nouns that now often take singular agreement,as the names of games (billiards; checkers; tiddlywinks) and of diseases (measles; mumps; pox; rickets); the latter use has been extended to create informal names for a variety of involuntaryconditions, physical or mental (collywobbles; giggles; hots; willies). A parallel set of formations, where -s has no plural value, are adjectives denoting socially unacceptable or inconvenientstates (bananas; bonkers; crackers; nuts; preggers; starkers) |
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