Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A piece of padding, usually one of a pair, worn inside the clothing to make a breast appear larger.

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  • noun padding worn inside a brassiere to make the breasts appear larger

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  • noun padding that is worn inside a brassiere

Etymologies

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false +‎ -ie (“(diminutive)”)

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Examples

  • When she finished shooting I slipped it to her: “Here, your falsie fell out.”

    Last Words George Carlin 2009

  • Later, neither her surgeon nor anyone else at Memorial Hospital would give her the specific information she demanded on treatment or exercises to regain the use of her arm, when or how to resume sexual relations, or even how to shop for a “falsie.”

    Health Activism, American Feminist. 2009

  • Getty Images Some restaurants have replaced 16-ounce pint glasses with 14 ouncers -- a type of glassware one bartender called a "falsie."

    A Pint-Size Problem 2008

  • Not without this eyeliner and this mascara and these falsie eyelashes.

    dis happenz everytime - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Everyone wants to be a $6 million dollar wo/man, more toxic chemical, falsie insets, and mechanical parts than flesh and blood.

    A Review of Chalmers Johnson's Nemesis - The Last Days of the American Republic 2007

  • I pulled out the dead plants and replaced them with a falsie I bought the other day, which means that half his plants are real and about half are fake.

    he surrenders! lex_vc 2007

  • We went to see the Jets, a two-man comedy-music team whose gags included passing through the audience, using the microphone as a “falsie detector.”

    Born Standing Up Steve Martin 2007

  • And you can just ignore the falsie-nipples worn underneath Joanna's semi-sheer bikini.

    Paranoid Pedestrian Ponderings 2003

  • The mirror made it clear that a single falsie, or even two, didst not a woman make.

    Fleur De Leigh’s Life of Crime Diane Leslie 1999

  • Standing on tiptoe, I tried on the falsie, first on my left side, then on the right, even in the middle, turning myself for a profile and three-quarter view.

    Fleur De Leigh’s Life of Crime Diane Leslie 1999

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  • A 14 oz. "pint" draft beer. Thickened bottom allows the house to help ends meet in these days of "cost cutting" to make a buck. Heard on NPR.

    June 11, 2008

  • with free foam!

    June 11, 2008

  • The Wall Street Journal weighs in…

    June 14, 2008