clothesies

English

Etymology

From clothes +‎ -ies.

Noun

clothesies pl (plural only)

  1. (colloquial or childish) Diminutive of clothes.
    • 1926 March 24, Allene Sumner, “The Woman’s Day […]”, in The Evening Examiner, volume LVII, number 70, Peterborough, Ont., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8, columns 5–6:
      CLOTHESIES. The girls who “just must wear something different” may like the new “musical dresses.” Deep borders of a musical scale pattern with sharps and flats playing tag over the scale appear on some of the new silks.
    • 1955 December, Alice Eleanor Jones, “The Happy Clown”, in James L[ouis] Quinn, editor, If: Worlds of Science Fiction, volume 6, number 1, Buffalo, N.Y.: Quinn Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 114, column 1:
      Under the jolly makeup and the artful padding, his mouth was shockingly twisted, and tears were running out of his eyes. “A long sharp knife, folks!” He paused momentarily to recover his voice, which had begun to shake. “Go on being happy, go on being sheep. Wear the clothesies, and eat the foodsies, and don’t dare think! Me—I’d rather be dead, and damned, and in hell!”
    • 2004 June, Nancy Springer, “Snow Spawn”, in Martin H[arry] Greenberg, Alexander Potter, editors, Sirius: The Dog Star (DAW Book Collectors; 1295), New York, N.Y.: DAW Books, →ISBN, page 231:
      Jake burst out, “God’s sake, put some clothes on him.” He didn’t care if the boy froze, but the sight of the damn kid’s navy-blue groin offended him. She made no move to obey him. “Ring around the clothesies, pocket full of nosies,” she sang, placing a plate full of scrambled eggs and toast in front of the boy.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:clothesies.
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