Other forms: onesies
A onesie is a single garment covering the whole body, worn for comfort. Wear a onesie.
It started as a brand of baby clothing and became an adult fashion around 2012. A onesie is warm, comfortable and impossible to get out of quickly.
1nounonesieA single garment covering the whole body, worn for comfort.
“The onesie came out every year between November and March.”
onesie is a garment.
From the Gerber brand name Onesies for infant clothing, treated in English as a plural.
Proto-Indo-European
*h₁óynos
Middle English
on
English
one
English, today
onesie
from the Gerber Childrenswear brand name Onesies, which became reinterpreted as a plural. Equivalent to one + -sie. one comes from Middle English on. From Middle English oon, on, oan, an, from Old English ān (“one”), from Proto-West Germanic ain, from Proto-Germanic ainaz (“one”), from Proto-Indo-European h₁óynos (“single, one”). a doublet of a and an and Uno. Cognate with Scots ae, ane, wan, yin (“one”); frr ån (“one”); stq aan (“one”); West Frisian ien (“one”); Dutch een, één (“one”); German Low German een; German ein, eins (“one”); Danish en (“one”); Swedish en (“one”); Norwegian Nynorsk ein (“one”), Icelandic einn (“one”); Latin ūnus (“one”) (itc-ola oinos); Russian оди́н, Spanish uno. ഒന്ന്, ஒன்னு, ஒண்ணு, ஒன்று.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA