sunnies
- 1Sunglasses: glasses with dark or tinted lenses that protect the eyes from bright sunlight.
She slid her sunnies down her nose and gave him a long look.
The kids had their sunnies on before the car was even out of the driveway.
Similarsunglasses, shades
Note
An everyday word in Australia and New Zealand, made by clipping sunglasses, adding the casual -ie ending and keeping the plural. Like sunglasses it is always plural: you put your sunnies on, lose them, and buy a pair of sunnies. It sits comfortably beside brand names, and Lonely Planet's Australia (2009) tells breakfasters to bring the Prada sunnies.
- 2Plural of sunny.
The sunnies were biting all afternoon near the lily pads.
Grandpa fried up the sunnies we'd caught for supper.
Note
In American fishing talk a sunny is a sunfish, and the plural follows the usual pattern, y to i plus -es. It belongs on the dock rather than in a field guide, and it shares its spelling with the Australian word for sunglasses, so the setting tells you whether someone is catching them or wearing them.
sunnies is a form of sunny
sunny, noun: A fish of the kind called a sunfish. Full entry
- Forms
- sunnysunnies plural
- Spelling
- sunny → sunnies: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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Origin
Formed from sunglasses with the diminutive suffix -ie, keeping the plural form.