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baggy


adjective, bag·gi·er, bag·gi·est.

  1. baglike; hanging loosely.

adjective -gier or -giest

  1. (of clothes) hanging loosely; puffed out

noun plural -gies

  1. a variant spelling of bagie
adj.

“puffed out, hanging loosely,” 1831, from bag (n.) + -y (2). Bagging in this sense is from 1590s. Baggie as a small protective plastic bag is from 1969. Baggies “baggy shorts” is from 1962, surfer slang. Related: Baggily; bagginess.

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