Meaning
Underwear — specifically girls' or women's panties, and children's underpants. A common, homely household word, it comes up most in the plain business of washing, drying, and dressing, especially with children: 'put on yuh baggy'. It sits with 'bloomers', 'drawers', and 'brief' in the everyday vocabulary of undergarments, and it is an ordinary, unremarkable term used freely about the family wash and getting the little ones dressed.
Examples
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Put on yuh baggy before yuh dress.
Put on your underwear before you get dressed.
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Di baggy dem pon di line.
The underwear is on the clothesline.
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She buy a pack a baggy fi di baby.
She bought a pack of underpants for the baby.
Origin
From English 'bag', via the loose, baggy cut of the garment; the meaning narrowed in Jamaican to underwear.
How it’s used
An everyday domestic word, most often used for women's and children's underwear. 'Baggie' is a common spelling.