a. [f. BAG sb. + -Y.]
1. Puffed or bulging out, hanging in loose folds.
1831. Carlyle, Life, II. ix. 219. With wrinkly, even baggy, face.
1858. Hawthorne, Fr. & It. Jrnls. (1872), I. 22. Red, baggy trousers.
1868. Lessons Mid. Age, 123. A baggy cotton umbrella.
2. fig. Of language: Inflated, verbose.
1866. Pall Mall Gaz., 15 Dec., 12/1. The Professor’s diction was verbose, and—if we may use a homely figure—baggy.
3. Baggy-minnow, or simply baggie (in South of Scotland): the minnow.
1808. Jamieson, Baggie, sometimes bag-mennon.
1827. J. Wilson, Noct. Ambr., Wks. 1855, II. 388. Some had a’ the appearance o’ bein’ baggy menons.
