Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Loose drawers or trousers, usually of silk or silk and cotton, tied round the waist with a cord, used by both sexes in India, and adopted from the Mohammedans by Europeans as a chamber garment. In colloquial or trade use the term is sometimes extended to include also covering for the upper part of the body.
Wiktionary
- n. Clothes for wearing to bed and sleeping in, usually consisting of a loose-fitting shirt and pants/trousers.
- n. Loose-fitting trousers worn by both sexes in various southern Asian countries including India.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Originally, in India, loose drawers or trousers, such as those worn, tied about the waist, by Mohammedan men and women; by extension, a similar garment adopted among Europeans, Americans, etc., for wear in the dressing room and during sleep; also, a suit consisting of drawers and a loose upper garment for such wear.
Etymologies
- From the Persian پايجامه (pây-jâma, "leg garment") via Urdu/Hindi पैजामा. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I am puzzled as to how a man who dry cleans his entire wardrobe, a woman who spends most of her time in pajamas, and two small children can create 20+ loads of laundry per week.”
Good Housekeeping: Totally Slobtastic Slackermom Edition | Her Bad Mother
“Mulhall, an Englishman, were still in pajamas, their naked feet thrust into”
“In the pictures, which were reportedly taken last year and published online by thecrushgirls. com, Farenthold is dressed in pajamas featuring a yellow ducky design.”
“When spills, tears and clothing changes are book-ended by meal preparation and clean up, sometimes getting out of your pajamas is truly not an option, let alone tending to housework or other obligations.”
The Huffington Post: Abi Cotler O'Roarty: The Important Role of Stay-at-Home Moms
“With my oldest (3.5 yrs) I pushed his independence, wanted him to just grow up already, even down to putting him in pajamas at a year instead of a sleeper.”
“Jim and Mark have Batman and Robin pajamas that are TOTALLY different ...”
“I liked the way the real people lived in pajamas and/or sweats, since they spent most of their time lying on couches driving their surrogates.”
“Well, the tape came off, and before I got around to replacing it, I was, as one does, performing my ceremonial functions (barefoot and in pajamas: must get slippers for next year) when I absentmindedly pivoted on my left foot.”
“I loved this one but the one with the animals in pajamas stole my heart.”
Warning: Bunnies in teacups, on unicycles will make your soul seize | EW.com
“And not just kittens, but kittens … in pajamas … who are dreaming.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pajamas’.
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#faveword
Words chosen as favorites for the Twitter hashtag #faveword.
autumnal, grotto, chiaroscuro, sfumato, homunculus, zing, zest, effervescent, bewitch, avuncular, susurrus, Styrofoam and 205 more...
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more -mas
yumas, pajamas, pumas, pimas, llamas, sigmas, allhallowmas, schemas, commas, limas, bahamas, aromas and 67 more...
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Serendipity's Words
defenestration, mercurial, syzygy, wicked, iniquitous, metastable, demimonde, entropic, ephemeral, irreligious, frisbee, manifold and 474 more...
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cindywrites's Words
chiaroscuro, mollycoddle, feckless, evocative, provocative, invocation, beckon, allay, becalm, console, lull, soothe and 479 more...
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Words grabbed from real life conversa...
If I've seen it, heard it, or marvelled at it, I'll stick it here.
cruft, ermine, redundant, shakespearean, camino, marvelous, stupendous, chagrin, shaven, sleek, smug, stillness and 325 more...
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Two years
Okay, I admit it. I made a list of words my daughter knew when she was two years old.
bat, baba, a, abalone, about, acorn, adrienne, after, again, airplane, alison, all and 694 more...
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Words with Method to their Madness
Patterned words! Any word that alternates vowels and consonants with no consonants next to each other, and no vowels next to each other. (And a letter limit of no less than 5)
eleven, every, vowel, lemon, alibi, hopes, limit, cures, caravan, emirate, united arab emirates, honorificabilitud... and 114 more...
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Monovocalics
Words that have only one of the vowels. On this list I include only words with at least three vowels. When I first started the list, if a word had several forms, I generally listed only the one wit...
syzygy, mirific, cumulus, homolog, monocot, bedewed, jezebel, referee, bikini, minikin, locomotor, terebenthene and 2359 more...
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EN - funny (single) words
"Fornication" is not equal to "formication".
Words with funny meaning, spelling or both.barratry, bastinado, bezonian, bibcock, bibliobibuli, biffy, bodewash, boeotian, boondoggle, borborygmic, bosky, brobdingnagian and 729 more...
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astrosfan's Words
pantaloons, schadenfreude, astonishing, eve, static, freeze, luscious, voluptuous, stagnant, mimic, speed, vespertillinoid and 302 more...
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Kaichi's Wordie Darlings, or I'm a Lo...
persnickety, discombobulated, braggadoccio, anthropomorphous, antelucan, confluxible, anomalous, poseur, gallivant, poppycock, falderal, gewgaw and 705 more...
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words i grew up pronouncing one way a...
graham, barrette, pajamas, diabetes, oregon, carnegie, cumin, cilantro, espresso, poinsettia, ricotta
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MEC2 Lesson 126
gross, avante garde, pajamas, rude, coffeepot, bottle, apologize, afterwards, husband, bachelor, GNP
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curlgurl's Words
archipelego, pajamas, incandescent, pasta, flabbergast, mind-boggling, waddle, wantan, disdain, cliche, blase, flicker and 4 more...
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Textiles
A list from the 1911 edition of "Words: Their Spelling, Pronunciation, Definition, Application" by the Gregg Publishing Company.
aigrette, a la mode, Amazon, applique, armure, baize, balbriggan, balmoral, batiste, bedticking, bobbinet, buckram and 88 more...
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the essentials.
all those basic, beautiful words for a basic, beautiful life.
delicate, sorrow, orrery, kaleidescope, staggering, damn, catastrophe, cathedral, basilica, irenic, felicity, raconteur and 29 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for pajamas.
thesaraheffect Hmmmm, maybe I should have read that sentence before I posted it... Sep 26, 2009
bilby That's an excellent sentence. Sep 24, 2009
thesaraheffect "Shazama pajama! Shazama pajama" said Little Nemo while wielding King Morpheus' royal sceptre! Sep 24, 2009
bilby Have they been hemmed? Aug 31, 2009
fbharjo from Urdu/Hindi paajaama, from Persian p�?ë (p�?ÿ) j�?mah, from pAy (="leg") + jAma (="garment"). of, pertaining to, or resembling pajamas: a pajama top; a lounging outfit with pajama pants Aug 31, 2009
pterodactyl See this map for American pronunciation. Apr 10, 2008
seanahan Ah, prepositional attachment humor, good stuff. Dec 24, 2007
bilby "One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know."
- Groucho Marx. Dec 23, 2007