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Braggy vs Baggy - What's the difference?

braggy | baggy |

As adjectives the difference between braggy and baggy

is that braggy is prone to brag while 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.

braggy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Prone to brag
  • * {{quote-book, year=1909, author=O. Henry, title=The Gentle Grafter, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="'That was only getting the pumpkin ready,' says Bassett, braggy and cheerful. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1931, author=Work Projects Administration, title=Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=He was a biggity acting and braggy talking old man. }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2001, date=February 2, author=Ben Joravsky, title=When the Star Comes Out, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=He was bombastic and braggy to the point of trash talking fellow performers. }}

    baggy

    English

    Etymology 1

    Adjective

    (er)
  • 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.

    • Etymology 2

    Presumably (the plural), presumably a genericization of the brand name .

    Alternative forms

    * baggie

    Noun

    (baggies)
  • A small plastic bag, as for sandwiches.
  • * 2008 March 6, Kristen Hinmen, "News Real: Seeing Red", '' 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 ."

    See also

    * bag English genericized trademarks