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warm fuzzy

noun

Etymology

Coined by Claude Steiner in 1970 for his children's story A Warm Fuzzy Tale, where it is used in a technical sense to illustrate a concept, namely, positive stroke, that is used in a type of therapy called transactional analysis.

Definitions

  1. A good impression

    A good impression; a feeling of comfort, happiness or trust.

    • I suppose they are a reputable business, but I didn't get a warm fuzzy from their salesman.
    • Nostalgia. Walks down memory lane fill me with warm fuzzies—right up there with a warm bubble bath and a good cup of café mocha.
    • There is no payoff to getting the warm fuzzies in the presence of rats, snakes, mosquitoes, cockroaches, herpes simplex and the rabies virus.

  2. A sense of accomplishment after performing an act.

    • John picks up litter in our neighborhood because it gives him warm fuzzies.

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