baggy
Americanadjective
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baggier,
comparative
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baggiest
superlative
adjective
noun
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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.
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There are thousands of comments, with one follower suggesting to "wear baggy clothes and avoid the mirror", and another saying "eat chocolate".
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
"He lost more than 10% of his body weight over that six weeks. He had these huge baggy eyes and he was so tired and he just couldn't eat."
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2026
We get multiple nondescriptive lists: khakis, leather jackets, flannels, baggy denim, work jeackets, graphic T-shirts, sweaters and rugby tops.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
While she spoke animatedly from a green room couch, Day’s bubblegum pink off-shoulder tee and baggy white pants repeatedly flounced out and then resettled in new shapes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026
I sling pajamas and sweatpants and baggy T-shirts out of my drawers as I desperately search for something to wear tonight.
From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott
Over the years, the company has embraced baggier fits, jorts, western-wear trends, lighter-weight pants and pants with moisture control in an effort to reignite demand from consumers battling higher living costs.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 29, 2026
I still have the shorts, faded and baggier.
From Slate ● Mar. 18, 2025
While baggier hems are more popular, Turner Allen, 31, a stylist, suggests wearing a pant that skims the top of the shoe: in denim he suggests a quarter- or half-break.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 3, 2024
Eilish shut her critics up by wearing baggier and less revealing clothes.
From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2023
The boys were soaked, their jean shorts now baggier than normal.
From "When I Was the Greatest" by Jason Reynolds
He was joined on stage by the song's producer, Mustard, who clutched a football while sporting the world's baggiest jeans - before Lamar pointed an imaginary remote control at the camera and intoned, "Game Over".
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2025
And not just any T-shirt and cargo shorts, but what could seem like the baggiest, most stretched out, most slept in, most consciously unflattering T-shirts and shorts; the most unkempt bed-head.
From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2022
Then the mug of hot oatmeal and the donning of the baggiest, fuzziest — and, thus, comfiest — lounge pants I own.
From New York Times ● Dec. 18, 2020
On the first day of the experiment, I go with the nightie-kimono combo teamed with my baggiest, comfiest jeans and trainers.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 26, 2018
She reappears in ratty sweatpants and the baggiest sweater I’ve ever seen, plops down in her desk chair, and shoots knives at me from her honey-colored eyes.
From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone
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