nightieとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From night +‎ -ie (diminutive suffix).

別の表記

• nighty

名詞

nightie (plural nighties)

1. (informal) A woman's nightgown or nightdress for wearing to bed.

   I was too embarrassed to answer the door in my nightie.

   • 2023 March 28, Philip Oltermann, “Michel Houellebecq sex film to be released despite attempt to stop it”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     The clip shows the 67-year-old enfant terrible of French letters in pyjamas lying on a bed next to a woman in a nightie, smoking and laughing.

派生語

• off like a bride's nightie

参考

• lingerie
• negligee

語源 2

From night +‎ -ie (suffix forming colloquialisms).

成句

nightie

1. Alternative form of nighty (“good night”).

アナグラム

• Hignite, thingie