单词 | baggy |
释义 | baggy (once / 6144 pages) adj Baggy clothes are loose-fitting. Sometimes kids wear their pants so baggy that their legs look like toothpicks in a lunch bag. It’s easy to hide in baggy clothes, and they’re usually really comfy. The adjective baggy describes oversized or roomy clothes. A baggy t-shirt and ripped-up pants probably isn't the ideal outfit for a job interview. You can also talk about baggy skin — you might say that your friend's baggy eyes betray the fact that he stayed up late finishing his English paper. Baggy comes from bag, with its Old Norse root, baggi. WORD FAMILYbaggy: baggier, baggiest, baggily USAGE EXAMPLESThe callers said a gunman wearing a hoodie and baggy pants fled the scene. Washington Post(Dec 18, 2016) From your junior-high science teacher to the taunted nerds of TV’s teen comedies, sweater vests, with their baggy silhouettes and argyle prints, telegraph schlubbiness. Wall Street Journal(Dec 14, 2016) One, there were men inside those baggy uniforms of a team that won its first three games before losing in the quarterfinals. Washington Times(Dec 10, 2016) adj not fitting closely; hanging loosely baggy trousers Syn loose-fitting, sloppy loose not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or constricting |
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