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nightie

noun
/ˈnaɪti/

Etymology

From night + -ie (suffix forming colloquialisms).

  1. inherited from *nókʷts✻ — “night”
  2. inherited from *nahts✻ — “night”
  3. inherited from *naht✻ — “night”
  4. inherited from niht
  5. inherited from nighte
  6. suffixed as nightie — “night + ie”

Definitions

  1. A woman's nightgown or nightdress for wearing to bed.

    • I was too embarrassed to answer the door in my nightie.
    • The clip shows the 67-year-old enfant terrible of French letters in pyjamas lying on a bed next to a woman in a nightie, smoking and laughing.

  2. Alternative form of nighty (“good night”).

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA