hoodie

English

Woman wearing a hoodie (sense 1)

Alternative forms

• hoody

Etymology

From hood +‎ -ie (diminutive suffix). In sense “person wearing a hoodie”, influenced by sense -ie (“person associated with suffixed noun, often derogatory”); compare townie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhʊdi/

• Audio (AU)

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• Rhymes: -ʊdi

Noun

hoodie (plural hoodies)

1. A sweatshirt with an integral hood and, sometimes, a large kangaroo pocket at the front.

   Synonyms: kangaroo, kangaroo jacket, bunny hug

   You can buy hoodies on the cheap in summer.

2. (British, slang, often derogatory) A young person wearing such a sweatshirt, usually a male, stereotypically associated with antisocial behaviour.

   Coordinate terms: chav, yob

   • 2006 July 9, Gaby Hinsliff, “Cameron softens crime image in 'hug a hoodie' call”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     David Cameron will completely re-engineer the Conservatives' image on crime this week with a remarkable speech calling for more understanding of 'hoodies' and criticising what he calls short-term solutions to curb youth crime such as anti-social behaviour orders and curfews.

   • 2012 June 26, Harriet Sergeant, “The only place my hoodie friend felt at home? Prison”, in Mail Online‎^[2]:

     En route, we dropped by the home of Lips — one of the very few gang members who still lived with his mother — to pick up some clothes for Tuggy. There, we discussed which pair of trainers to bring him — no small decision, as the soul of the hoodie resides in his trainers.

3. (slang) foreskin
4. The hooded crow, Corvus cornix.

Descendants

• → German: Hoodie

Translations

sweatshirt, with an integral hood

• Arabic:

  Moroccan Arabic: قبية f (qubbiyya)

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 連帽衫／连帽衫 (liánmàoshān), 帽T (màotì)

• Finnish: huppari (fi)
• French: sweat à capuche
• German: Kapuzenpullover (de) m, Kapuzenpulli m, Hoodie (de) m
• Greek: χούντι (el) n (choúnti), φούτερ (με κουκούλα) n (foúter (me koukoúla))
• Hungarian: kapucnis pulóver/​melegítőfelső/​póló/​dzseki
• Icelandic: hettupeysa f
• Italian: felpa (it) f
• Japanese: フード (ja) (fūdo), パーカー (ja) (pākā)
• Korean: 후디 (hudi)
• Macedonian: ду́ксер m (dúkser)
• Polish: bluza (pl) f
• Portuguese: moletom m, capuz (pt) m
• Romanian: hanorac (ro) n
• Russian: ху́ди (ru) f (xúdi), толсто́вка (с капюшо́ном) f (tolstóvka (s kapjušónom)), балахо́н (с капюшо́ном) m (balaxón (s kapjušónom))
• Spanish: sudadera con capucha f, sudadera f, capuchera f, capucha (es) f, encapuchado (es) m, (Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Uruguay) buzo (es) m
• Swedish: huvtröja (sv) c, luvtröja c, munktröja c, munkjacka c, hoodie (sv) c
• Thai: เสื้อฮู้ด (S̄eụ̄̂x ḥū̂ d)
• Turkish: kapüşonlu

young person wearing such a sweatshirt

• German: Kapuzenträger
• Hungarian: kapucnis fiatal
• Spanish: encapuchado (es) m

slang: foreskin — see also foreskin

• Finnish: huppu (fi)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} oso hormiguero (es)

Further reading

• hoodie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Spanish

Noun

hoodie f (plural hoodies)

1. hoodie

Swedish

Noun

hoodie c

1. a hoodie (sweatshirt with integral hood)

   Synonyms: huvtröja, luvtröja, munktröja, munkjacka

Declension

Declension of hoodie
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	hoodie	hoodien	hoodies	hoodiesarna
Genitive	hoodies	hoodiens	hoodies	hoodiesarnas

References

• hoodie in Svensk ordbok (SO)