Crossword clues for baggy
baggy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Baggy \Bag"gy\, a. Resembling a bag; loose or puffed out, or pendent, like a bag; flabby; as, baggy trousers; baggy cheeks.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"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.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 a. 1 Of clothing, very loose-fitting, so as to hang away from the body. 2 Of or relating to a British music genre of the 1980s and 1990s, influenced by Madchester and psychedelia and associated with baggy clothing. Etymology 2
alt. A small plastic bag, as for sandwiches. n. A small plastic bag, as for sandwiches.
WordNet
adj. not fitting closely; hanging loosely; "baggy trousers"; "a loose-fitting blouse is comfortable in hot weather" [syn: loose-fitting]
Wikipedia
Baggy was a British dance-orientated rock music genre popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Usage examples of "baggy".
This woman of the baggy corduroy lacks and baggier sweater, who hid her femininity like a guilty secret.
He was a little greyer, a little thinner, a little baggier about the knees and shoulders, but in essentials the same Mr Goodacre she and her father had occasionally encountered in the old days, visiting the sick of Paggleham.
Her pants were baggier than a trash bag, but stayed up thanks to her new belt.
Its clothing was singular, to say the leasthigh-topped brogans of black leather, baggy pantaloons and baggier shirt of what looked to be a good-quality cloth in the hue of a dark-green olive, what might have been a broad sword belt cinching the waist, but no visible weapons and no armor except the close-fitting helmet.
Under it were even baggier knee-length khaki shorts and brown sneakers.
As she trailed her gaze over the button-fly jeans, she wished she had opted for a baggier pair.
The paper had one other general reporter, Baggy Suggs, a pickled old goat who spent his hours hanging around the courthouse across the street sniffing for gossip and drinking bourbon with a small club of washed-up lawyers too old and too drunk to practice anymore.
As I would soon learn, Baggy was too lazy to check sources and dig for anything interesting, and it was not unusual for his front page story to be some dull account of a boundary dispute or a wife beating.
In the center of the front page there was a rather large group shot of the new regimeMargaret, Hardy, Baggy Suggs, me, our photographer, Wiley Meek, Davey Bigmouth Bass, and Melanie Dogan, a high school student and part-time employee.
After a couple of drinks, Baggy always began the cutting remarks about his wife.
He worked about as hard as Baggy, and the two were often seen in the courtroom, half-soused, watching yet another trial.
He confirmed what Baggy had suspectedDanny Padgitt was living the good life in an air-conditioned cell and eating whatever he wanted.
According to Baggy, Sam Ruffin had been the first black student to enroll in the white schools in Clanton.
He was a local lawyer, once described by Baggy as the meanest divorce attorney in the county.
The name was unknown to me, which was expected, but Baggy had never heard of him either.