wedgie
wedgie Lexical Profile
wedgie Game Scores & Validity
• noun
An uncomfortable condition in which a person's underwear or clothing becomes tightly lodged between the buttocks, or a prank in which someone's underwear is forcefully pulled up from behind to cause this.
"The tight gymnastics leotard gave her an uncomfortable wedgie during the routine."
A woman's shoe built with a wedge-shaped heel that runs continuously under the sole from the back of the shoe to the middle or front.
"She wore a pair of canvas wedgies to the summer garden party."
• verb
To pull a person's underwear sharply upward from behind as a prank so that it becomes wedged between the buttocks.
"The older brothers used to wedgie each other mercilessly when they were kids."
• Rhymes for wedgie
Word Origin & Etymology
Formed in the mid-20th century from the noun 'wedge' combined with the diminutive suffix '-ie', originally referring to wedge-heeled shoes before popularized in the late 1970s as American schoolyard slang for the underwear prank.
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