"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"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "warm fuzzy (plural warm fuzzies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "cold prickly"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "57 43",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I suppose they are a reputable business, but I didn't get a warm fuzzy from their salesman."
        },
        {
          "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, 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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A good impression; a feeling of comfort, happiness or trust."
      ],
      "id": "en-warm_fuzzy-en-noun-~pmgGaZh",
      "links": [
        [
          "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"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "John picks up litter in our neighborhood because it gives him warm fuzzies."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A sense of accomplishment after performing an act."
      ],
      "id": "en-warm_fuzzy-en-noun-N1IASJpj",
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, chiefly in the plural, often derogatory) A sense of accomplishment after performing an act."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "in-plural",
        "informal",
        "often"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "warm fuzzy"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "The term comes from Claude Steiner's children's story The Warm Fuzzy Tale.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "warm fuzzies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "warm fuzzy (plural warm fuzzies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "cold prickly"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English informal terms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I suppose they are a reputable business, but I didn't get a warm fuzzy from their salesman."
        },
        {
          "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, 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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A good impression; a feeling of comfort, happiness or trust."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "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"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English derogatory terms",
        "English informal terms"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "John picks up litter in our neighborhood because it gives him warm fuzzies."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A sense of accomplishment after performing an act."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, chiefly in the plural, often derogatory) A sense of accomplishment after performing an act."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "in-plural",
        "informal",
        "often"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "warm fuzzy"
}