Noun
body pillow (plural body pillows)
- A long body-length pillow that can be held or wrapped around one's body while sleeping.
- Synonyms: dakimakura, Dutch wife, love pillow
2000, Bradley G. Richardson, Daddy Smarts: A Guide for Rookie Fathers, Taylor Trade Publishing, →ISBN, page 61:Between the five full-sized pillows and the four-foot body pillow my wife slept with, there was little room for me. I pretended to grow resentful of the body pillow and named him Fred, because I told my wife it was like having a four-foot man in our bed.
2012, Alex Langley, The Geek Handbook: Practical Skills and Advice for the Likeable Modern Geek, Krause Publications, →ISBN, page 25:Once you think the Japanese voice acting is superior to the English voice acting, or have purchased a body pillow/mousepad with boobs of an anime character, or have tried to cosplay as your favorite anime character, you can rest assured that you are now an Anime geek.
2012, Jane Palmer, Joanne Stone, Keith Eddleman, Mary Duenwald, Pregnancy for Dummies, Wiley, →ISBN, unnumbered page:You can tuck the body pillow around your body in various places, which makes finding a comfortable position easier.
Translations
body-length pillow
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 抱枕 (zh) (bàozhěn), 等身抱枕 (děngshēn bàozhěn)
- German: Seitenschläferkissen n
- Japanese: 抱き枕 (ja) (dakimakura)
- Spanish: abrazador (es) m
- Thai: หมอนข้าง (th) (mɔ̌ɔn-kâang)
- Vietnamese: gối ôm
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