warm fuzzy

短语

词形变化

warm fuzzies 复数 warm fuzzies

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A good impression; a feeling of comfort, happiness or trust.

    非正式

    I suppose they are a reputable business, but I didn't get a warm fuzzy from their salesman.

  2. 2.

    A sense of accomplishment after performing an act.

    贬义 非正式

    John picks up litter in our neighborhood because it gives him warm fuzzies.

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.

来源：wiktionary