snuggies

[ snuhg-eez ]

noun

, (used with a plural verb)

1. warm knitted underwear, especially long underpants, for women or children.

Word History and Origins

Origin of snuggies¹

snug + -y ² + -s ³

Example Sentences

Many of the commenters on Pomeroy’s videos even pointed out that the Snuggies could even be looked at as a "hug" from her grandparents.

From Fox News

The ecommerce boom of the early 2000s gave rise to a flood of new products including dreidel-shaped waffle makers, latke-adorned snuggies, star of David-speckled pajamas and Grateful Dead Hanukkah bobble heads.

From New York Times

Snuggies are not alone, though they do come in solid colors, plaids, zebra print and leopard.

From Washington Times

Nationwide, women enrobed in work Snuggies emailed each other, amazed that Nixon just went for it like that — bypassing a compromise temperature of 72 or 73 and asking for a full-on heat blast.

From Washington Post

The artist Andy Coolquitt is always searching through Austin, Tex.’s thrift stores and abandoned lots for eye-catching flotsam, which he then fashions into haute Minimalist sculptures: lamps made of odd loops of metal pipe, or a series of Snuggies, which, stretched across a frame, resemble Blinky Palermo’s fuzzy color fields, but with sleeves.

From New York Times