hoodie
Meanings
noun
- A sweatshirt with an integral hood and, sometimes, a large kangaroo pocket at the front.
- A young person wearing such a sweatshirt, usually a male, stereotypically associated with antisocial behaviour.
- A foreskin.
- The hooded crow, Corvus cornix.
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Etymology
From hood + -ie (diminutive suffix). In sense “person wearing a hoodie”, influenced by sense -ie (“person associated with suffixed noun, often derogatory”); compare townie.
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