different between baggs vs baggy

English

Verb

baggs (third-person singular simple present baggses, present participle baggsing, simple past and past participle baggsed)

1. Alternative spelling of bags (“lay dibs”)
   • 2005 Celine Spengeman, The Four Faced Liar: The Mystery of The Shandon Clock,^[1] Trafford Publishing, ?ISBN, page 147,

     In Simon’s house he and Rebecca were having a fight about who should put the angel on the tree.

     “It’s not fair Simon, I baggsed it before ya. D’ya remember last year, you put it up. Now it’s definitely my turn.” Rebecca felt defiant.

   • 2007, Anne Enright, The Gathering,^[2] Black Cat, ?ISBN, page 87,

     I had baggsed, on a whim, Ada’s swatches and books of cloth and they seemed such useless objects by the light of day that I pushed them into a bin on the street.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bæ?i/
• Rhymes: -æ?i

Etymology 1

bag +? -y

Adjective

baggy (comparative baggier, superlative baggiest)

1. Of clothing, very loose-fitting, so as to hang away from the body.

   Synonyms: loose, saggy; see also Thesaurus:loose-fitting

2. (music) Of or relating to a British music genre of the 1980s and 1990s, influenced by Madchester and psychedelia and associated with baggy clothing.
3. (figuratively) Of writing, etc.: overwrought; flabby; having too much padding.

Descendants

• ? French: baggy

Translations

Noun

baggy (plural baggies)

1. (Britain) A member of the 1980/90s British music and fashion movement.

Etymology 2

Presumably back-formation from baggies (the plural), presumably a genericization of the brand name Baggies.

Alternative forms

• baggie

Noun

baggy (plural baggies)

1. A small plastic bag, as for sandwiches.
   • 2008 March 6, Kristen Hinmen, "News Real: Seeing Red", Riverfront Times volume 32 number 10, page 10,

     In an accompanying affidavit, Apazeller reported that Onstott "has entered the kitchen with a handful of cocaine and asked for a plastic baggy."

2. Such a bag filled with marijuana.

Usage notes

• In British and Canadian colloquial usage (from at least the early 1980s) this especially applies to small self-sealing sandwich or freezer bags used for illicit purposes.

See also

• bag

French

Etymology

English baggy

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.?i/

Adjective

baggy (plural baggys)

1. baggy

Noun

baggy m (plural baggys)

1. Loose-fitting trousers