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[angler]

an all in one stretchy garment for a baby. (8) is it pramsuit?

[novalis]

playsuit

[angler]

many thanks

[sincnoel]

i thought playsuit, too, but i cannot find that definition for it anywhere on the onestop dictionary site

[ladyalex]

I tend to favour pramsuit as the clue states 'for a baby'

[weecalf]

Were they ever called Babygrow ?

[sincnoel]

i think it was spelt babygro (trade name?). anyway, i'm going with playsuit cos there doesn't seem to be anything else. but i think kate has confused it with jumpsuit which, unlike a playsuit, IS usually a one-piece garment. .

[JUNKMAN]

Does this help ?

http://www.mamasandpapas.co.uk/search/?query=P ramsuit&category=All

[angler]

thanks to you all i think i will go with playsuit as it does not affect anything else

[Dee Sa]

these days they definately call them babygro, but obviously it wont fit. You try going into Mothercare and asking for a playsuit !!!!!! they will look at you as though you are from Mars !

[hadrianjeffs]

Well, neither playsuit or pramsuit is in the library's copy of Chambers, so I'm going with playsuit. actually, I think the generic pre-babygro term is rompersuit, but that doesn't fit.

Is the Telegraph going to market special tossing coins, cruciverbalists for the use of, in the near future?

[Aquagility]

Chambers gives play'suit as "set of clothes for child or woman". Pramsuit not listed.
Google gives pram suit as two words.
For me Pramsuit has it. Probably wrong.

[Catron]

I'm puzzled - why, if pramsuit does not appear in a dictionary (and I am not aware that it does), do people still prefer it over playsuit, which is listed in dictionaries?

Anyway, the Oxford dictionaries have playsuit as 'an all-in-one stretchy garment for a baby or very young child, covering the body, arms and legs'.

[weecalf]

Google babygrow spells nothing like the others so probably not it .

[GK Fanatic]

Its such an old fashioned term but as its all in one play is preferable to pram???