baggy
Americanadjective
adjective
noun
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of baggy
Explanation
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.
Example Sentences
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Women in headscarves and long coats share the sidewalk with groups of young men and women in baggy jeans with body piercings and tattoos.
From BBC • Apr. 23, 2026
Instead, he said, he was shepherded into a glass office where a thin man in a baggy suit named Alex told him to sign three packets of documents.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026
Nineteenth-century realist novels—those “loose baggy monsters,” in Henry James’s words—get a bad rap for being boring.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026
Banoffee: Mo would put me in a baggy jean, with a belt and a little shirt, with some sort of leather jacket or a bomber and a cool sneaker.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2026
I unrolled my sleeping bag on the bed and changed into baggy sweatpants and an oversize T-shirt with M&M’s candy printed on the front.
From "Keep It Together, Keiko Carter" by Debbi Michiko Florence
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