Baggy vs Bulbous - What's the difference?
baggy | bulbous | Synonyms |
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,
Having the shape of or resembling a bulb, bloated.
(of a person) Overweight and round in shape.
* 2002 , Michael Bracken, All White Girls (page 9)
(botany) Growing from a bulb or producing bulbs.
English refractory feminine rhymes
As adjectives the difference between baggy and bulbous
is that baggy is of clothing, very loose-fitting, so as to hang away from the body while bulbous is having the shape of or resembling a bulb, bloated.As a noun baggy
is a small plastic bag, as for sandwiches.baggy
English
Etymology 1
Adjective
(er)Etymology 2
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 trademarksbulbous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- A neon cacophony hung only a few feet above their heads, the popping and buzzing of the lights only occasionally drowned out by the shouts of the barkers, bulbous men whose doughy fat strained at their sweat-stained t-shirts
