different between baggie vs braggie

English

Alternative forms

• baggy

Etymology

bag +? -ie (“(diminutive)”); additional -g- so pronunciation of ‘a’ does not change.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bæ?i/

Noun

baggie (plural baggies)

1. (US) A small bag, especially a small, clear, plastic bag.

Synonyms

• sandwich bag
• ziploc

Translations

See also

• bindle

English

Etymology

brag +? -ie; compare selfie.

Pronunciation

Noun

braggie (plural braggies)

1. (slang) A photo shared on a social media network with the sole intention of making one's friends/followers jealous.
   • 2013, Lizzie Porter, "Forget the 'selfie': holidaymakers go for 'braggie' photos", The Telegraph, 21 November 2013:

     The Oxford Dictionary may have named “selfie” the word of the year for 2013, but British tourists are using their holiday photographs as “braggies” to boast about their travels to friends and family on social media

   • 2013, Victoria Woollaston, "Forget selfies - it's all about the 'BRAGGIE': One in three upload photos to social networks just to show off", Daily Mail, 21 November 2013:

     The most popular form of braggies were by the pool, beach or surrounding areas (43 per cent), drinking cocktails (12 per cent) or pulling a ‘sparrowface’ or ‘duckface pose (3 per cent) which is the trend of pouting at the camera.

   • 2014, Aditi Pancholi And Dipti, "Get, set and brag", The Asian Age, 28 December 2014:

     She says, “Apart from boasting about the exotic locations that you went to, braggies are a good way of documenting your trips. […]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:braggie.

Anagrams

• baggier