Lax vs Baggy - What's the difference?
lax | baggy |
A salmon.
lenient and allowing for deviation; not strict.
* J. A. Symonds
loose; not tight or taut.
* Ray
lacking care; neglectful, negligent
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=October 1
, author=Phil Dawkes
, title=Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom
, work=BBC Sport
(archaic) Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal.
lacrosse
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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,
As an adjective baggy is
of clothing, very loose-fitting, so as to hang away from the body.As a noun baggy is
a small plastic bag, as for sandwiches.lax
English
Alternative forms
* (Killian)Etymology 1
From (etyl) lax, from (etyl) .Noun
(laxes)Etymology 2
From (etyl)Adjective
(er)- The rules are fairly lax , but you have to know which ones you can bend.
- Society at that epoch was lenient, if not lax , in matters of the passions.
- The rope fell lax .
- the flesh of that sort of fish being lax and spongy
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Synonyms
* permissive, lenient * loose, slackAntonyms
* strict * taut, tightNoun
(-)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 ."