Other forms: hoodies
A hoodie is a casual warm top with a hood attached. A grey hoodie, pull up the hoodie, a zip-up hoodie.
It became a political object in Britain in the 2000s, when shopping centres banned them and a party leader was mocked for saying people should hug one. The word also means the person wearing it, which is where the trouble started.
1nounhoodieA casual warm top with a hood attached.
“It was chilly, so she threw on a hoodie and jeans before going out.”
hoodie is a garment.
Hood plus -ie. The sense meaning the wearer is influenced by the same ending in words like townie.
Proto-Indo-European
*kadʰ- — to cover
Proto-Germanic
*hōdaz
Proto-West Germanic
*hōd
Old English
hōd
Middle English
hood
English
hood
English, today
hoodie
From hood + ie. In sense “person wearing a hoodie”, influenced by sense -ie (“person associated with suffixed noun, often derogatory”); compare townie. hood comes from Middle English hood, hod, from Old English hōd, from Proto-West Germanic hōd, from Proto-Germanic hōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European kadʰ- (“to cover”). See also stq Houd (“hat; hood”), West Frisian and Dutch hoed (“hat”), cim huat, huut (“hat”), German Hut (“hat”), German Low German Hood (“hat; hood”), lb Hutt (“hat”); also ira-pro xawdaH (“hat”) (ae 𐬑𐬂𐬛𐬀, peo 𐎧𐎢𐎭). More at hat.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA