"warm fuzzy" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "The term comes from Claude Steiner's children's story The Warm Fuzzy Tale.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "warm fuzzies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "cold prickly"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I suppose they are a reputable business, but I didn't get a warm fuzzy from their salesman.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Michelle Graham, “The Lie We Buy: Beauty and Culture”, in Wanting to Be Her: Body Image Secrets Victoria Won’t Tell You, Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, →ISBN, page 11:",
          "text": "Nostalgia. Walks down memory lane fill me with warm fuzzies—right up there with a warm bubble bath and a good cup of café mocha.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 April 19, Paul Bloom, “Natural Happiness”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "There is no payoff to getting the warm fuzzies in the presence of rats, snakes, mosquitoes, cockroaches, herpes simplex and the rabies virus.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A good impression; a feeling of comfort, happiness or trust."
      ],
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          "impression",
          "impression"
        ],
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          "feeling",
          "feeling"
        ],
        [
          "comfort",
          "comfort"
        ],
        [
          "happiness",
          "happiness"
        ],
        [
          "trust",
          "trust"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) A good impression; a feeling of comfort, happiness or trust."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    },
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "John picks up litter in our neighborhood because it gives him warm fuzzies.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A sense of accomplishment after performing an act."
      ],
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          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, chiefly in the plural, often derogatory) A sense of accomplishment after performing an act."
      ],
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        "informal",
        "often"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "warm fuzzy"
}

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  "etymology_text": "The term comes from Claude Steiner's children's story The Warm Fuzzy Tale.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "warm fuzzies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "warm fuzzy (plural warm fuzzies)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "word": "cold prickly"
        }
      ],
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        "English informal terms",
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I suppose they are a reputable business, but I didn't get a warm fuzzy from their salesman.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Michelle Graham, “The Lie We Buy: Beauty and Culture”, in Wanting to Be Her: Body Image Secrets Victoria Won’t Tell You, Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, →ISBN, page 11:",
          "text": "Nostalgia. Walks down memory lane fill me with warm fuzzies—right up there with a warm bubble bath and a good cup of café mocha.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 April 19, Paul Bloom, “Natural Happiness”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "There is no payoff to getting the warm fuzzies in the presence of rats, snakes, mosquitoes, cockroaches, herpes simplex and the rabies virus.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A good impression; a feeling of comfort, happiness or trust."
      ],
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        [
          "impression",
          "impression"
        ],
        [
          "feeling",
          "feeling"
        ],
        [
          "comfort",
          "comfort"
        ],
        [
          "happiness",
          "happiness"
        ],
        [
          "trust",
          "trust"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) A good impression; a feeling of comfort, happiness or trust."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    },
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "John picks up litter in our neighborhood because it gives him warm fuzzies.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A sense of accomplishment after performing an act."
      ],
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        "(informal, chiefly in the plural, often derogatory) A sense of accomplishment after performing an act."
      ],
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}