# Did you ever call a "wedgie" a "snuggy"?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 21, 2009, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-call-a-wedgie-a-snuggy/507168 "2009-08-21T04:54:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dollarrandi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@Dollarrandi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dollarrandi)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2024, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-call-a-wedgie-a-snuggy/507168/21 "2024-07-12T04:39:23Z")

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I always heard each of these used interchangably: snuggie, wedgie, melvin, and marvin. Weirdly, theres even a legal case about wedgies.

> **[Pascual v. Anchor Advanced Products, Inc., 819 F. Supp. 728 (1993) | Caselaw...](https://cite.case.law/f-supp/819/728/)**
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> Full text of Pascual v. Anchor Advanced Products, Inc., 819 F. Supp. 728 (1993) from the Caselaw Access Project.

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**Author:** ![Dollarrandi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@Dollarrandi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dollarrandi)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2024, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-call-a-wedgie-a-snuggy/507168/22 "2024-07-12T04:41:35Z")

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really good info lobotomy. Emphasis on the word forcibly!

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**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2024, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-call-a-wedgie-a-snuggy/507168/23 "2024-07-12T15:15:14Z")

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We called them “sumos”. Or would it be spelled “sumoes”?

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**Author:** ![sunacres](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@sunacres](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunacres)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2024, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-call-a-wedgie-a-snuggy/507168/24 "2024-07-13T16:56:34Z")

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This is such a rich thread! I grew up using Melvin for the rear action and remember being a bit uncertain if a “wedgie” was the same thing when I eventually encountered that term.

I’ve NEVER BEFORE heard that some folks consider a Melvin the front lift! Wow, always learning about our culture.

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**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2024, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-call-a-wedgie-a-snuggy/507168/25 "2024-07-14T14:05:36Z")

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In Saskatchewan, the term I learned as a youth was “gotch pull” (“gotch/gitch” meaning “underwear”).

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