warm fuzzy

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A good impression; a feeling of comfort, happiness or trust. informal
    — I suppose they are a reputable business, but I didn't get a warm fuzzy from their salesman.
  2. A sense of accomplishment after performing an act. derogatory,in-plural,informal,often
    — John picks up litter in our neighborhood because it gives him warm fuzzies.

词形变化

warm fuzzies plural

词源

Coined by Claude Steiner in 1970 for his children's story A Warm Fuzzy Tale, where it is used in a technical sense to illustrate a concept, namely, positive stroke, that is used in a type of therapy called transactional analysis.
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