Baggiest vs Bangiest - What's the difference?
baggiest | bangiest |
(baggy)
Of clothing, very loose-fitting, so as to hang away from the body.
Of or relating to a British music genre of the 1980s and 1990s, influenced by Madchester and psychedelia and associated with baggy clothing.
A small plastic bag, as for sandwiches.
* 2008 March 6, Kristen Hinmen, "News Real: Seeing Red", '' volume 32 number 10, page 10,
(bangy)
(India) A type of yoke carried on the shoulders, as a means for people to carry a load.
* {{quote-book
, year=1837
, author=Asiatic Society of Bengal
, title=Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal
, chapter=
Characterized by a lot of banging sounds; clangy.
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=March 3, author=The New York Times, title=Music in Review, work=New York Times
, passage=But her performance of Beethoven’s Sonata No. 30 in E (whose finale includes Baroque references, like a fugato) at times sounded bangy , although there were lovely moments in the Andante. }}
As adjectives the difference between baggiest and bangiest
is that baggiest is superlative of baggy while bangiest is superlative of bangy.baggiest
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Adjective
(head)baggy
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Etymology 1
Adjective
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Presumably (the plural), presumably a genericization of the brand name .Alternative forms
* baggieNoun
(baggies)- In an accompanying affidavit, Apazeller reported that Onstott "has entered the kitchen with a handful of cocaine and asked for a plastic baggy ."
See also
* bag English genericized trademarksbangiest
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Adjective
(head)Anagrams
* *bangy
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Etymology 1
Alternative forms
* banghy * bhangyNoun
(bangies)citation, isbn= , page=267 , passage=The men, to the number of 800, march in single file, and each man occupies a space of six feet, being obliged to carry a bangy' containing his provisions, cooking pots, &c. besides his musket, which is tied to the ' bangy stick.}}
Etymology 2
Adjective
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