onesie

English

Baby wearing a onesie.

Etymology

From the Gerber Childrenswear brand name Onesies. The name became generic and was reinterpreted as a plural, hence the new singular and decapitalized "onesie". Equivalent to one +‎ -sie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwʌn.zi/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: one‧sie

Noun

onesie (plural onesies)

1. Name given to a number of one-piece attires
   1. (US) A one-piece garment for an infant or small child, generally worn over a diaper.
   • 2023 February 2, Natalia Winkelman, “‘Baby Ruby’ Review: Enfant Terrible”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     It was once considered taboo to even suggest that new motherhood was not all sunshine onesies and rainbow mobiles, and “Baby Ruby” arrives on a welcome wave of contemporary movies exploring how the joys of child rearing can commingle with misery.

   • 2024 August 16, Natasha Dye, “Caitlin Clark Signs Indiana Fever Fan's 2-Week-Old Baby: 'So Cute'”, in People‎^[2]:

     The Fever shared a video of the meeting on X (formerly known as Twitter), where an excited Clark got to hold the young baby and sign the youngster's onesie.

   1. One-piece adult loungewear jumpsuit.
   2. One-piece fashionable streetwear worn mostly by teenagers.

Synonyms

• (a one-piece baby garment): romper, romper suit

Related terms

• onesie-twosie

Translations

baby garment

• Bulgarian: ританки m pl (ritanki)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: romper (nl) m, rompertje (nl) n, kruippak (nl) n, kruippakje (nl) n
• Finnish: potkupuku (fi)
• French: body (fr) m
• German: Strampler (de) m
• Italian: pagliaccetto m
• Korean: 바디슈트 (badisyuteu)
• Portuguese: macaquinho m
• Romanian: body
• Russian: детский комбинезон (detskij kombinezon), (specifically for a baby to sleep in) слип (ru) m (slip)
• Spanish: mono (es) m, pelele (es) m, mameluco m, pilucho (es) m (Chile), enterito m, enterizo (es) m (South America)
• Turkish: bebek tulumu

adult jumpsuit

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 連體服／连体服 (liántǐfú)

• Dutch: romper (nl) m
• Finnish: haalari (fi)
• French: combinaison (fr) f
• Hungarian: kombidressz, bodi, body (hu)
• Portuguese: macacão (pt) m
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: mono (es) m, esquijama m, mameluco m, skiyama m, enterito m, enterizo (es) m (Southern Cone)

Anagrams

• eosine