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Etymologies
- Blend of man and leggings; compare treggings, jeggings. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Although some style gurus believe that the stylish clothing should have been left in the 14th century "meggings" have made a comeback in true style.”
“Guardian readers are, of course, already au fait with the recently featured "meggings", ie leggings for men, elaboration unnecessary.”
“Specifically: silver meggings that's man jeggings, matching hair and dresses -- and perhaps worst of all, looking boring.”
The Huffington Post: Grammy Red Carpet 2011: Worst-Dressed (PHOTOS, POLL)
“Slimane's aesthetic hinged on razor-sharp, super-tight tailoring; and jeans so clinging that they almost qualified as meggings (man leggings).”
The Guardian: Thin is in: in search of the perfect male body
“This shot from the 80's demonstrates perfectly all the problems with leggings for men (meggings?).”
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“Leggins 2.0 - Flourishing from Milano to Main Street, leggings are now differentiated as jeggings (jeans + leggings) and meggings (male leggings), and the like.”
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“Leggins 2.0 - leggings are now differentiated as jeggings (jeans + leggings) and meggings (male leggings), and the like”
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
“Guys, wince and whimper a painful 'hello' to man-leggings, or 'meggings”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘meggings’.
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Fa-Fa-Fashion
silly fashion words, and not-so-silly ones
jombats, skorts, meggings, jeggings, skousers, shoots, mankini, shooties, tankini, monokini, watchlet, jardigan and 18 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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bumwank, calamity, recalcitrant, gayenese, jeeze, nonsense, flabbergasted, juxtapose, procrastinating, ossanity, biffing, loser and 1972 more... -
bilby's Words
pandemic, whirl, guffaw, ethereal, feisty, dunt, ephemeral, pule, flipergebet, prink, maunder, gammon and 1023 more...
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Australian
words not found in other
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scrabbleabdul, abdulled, abdulling, abi, abiu, ablactate, absinthial, absinthian, absoluter, acalypha, acanthodian, acaroids and 5128 more...
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Below the Belt
Anything worn from the waist down.
chausses, pantaloons, britches, trossers, buckskins, chaps, galligaskins, gregs, gaskins, breeches, knee breeches, knee pants and 93 more...
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Manified Words
Words where adding M onto them makes them at once an accurate and demeaning descriptions of hip trends.
mandals, mandles, murse, meggings, manscaping, manorexia, mewelry, manssiere, manpris, man-gagement
Tweets
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bilby "Clearly blokes in Albany - including the hairdresser - were yet to embrace man leggings, or meggings as fashion types like to call them. And to be honest, who can blame them?
I was surprised she hadn't spied any men in tights during her four-day visit. Like men in skinny jeans, legging-clad blokes are a growing breed. Barely a week goes by when I don't see a guy who has succumbed to fashion's latest craze. Usually, I wish they hadn't."
- Rachel Wells, Men in tights, theage.com.au, 29 June 2009. Jul 2, 2009