Also, while it's in my head, I don't know if it's a regional or age thing or what, but I didn't hear the term "plushie" until I was in college. Everyone I knew called them stuffed animals, and always that, never plush, plushie, or stuffie. Plushie is what I hear everyone use now, and I don't know when or why the shift happened, or if it happened and I was just in some odd bubble.
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Connecticut, and they were stuffed animals, but i picked up "stuffies" from UK folks online because it was a nicer term
they were 'cuddly toys' or 'teddy bears' (as a generic term, not just for bear-shaped ones) over here in the UK until 'plushie' came over from the US, at a timing I associate with beanie babies, I think?
Teddy bears came from the US as well, funnily enough! And Beanie Babies is a little earlier than I remember hearing the term, but I have yet to get good data from the US west coast so maybe it did come over earlier
Also CT and grew up with 'stuffed animals'. I feel like plushie started coming up for me around the mid-2000s when I was more in the con scene and every stall had little chibi dolls of every anime character, and I didn't hear stuffy until the mid-2010s, mainly from new parents.
Yeah, I swear the first time I saw the word “plushie” was in a fetish context on the FA forums, so it still slightly weirds me out when people just casually use the term for all stuffed animals lol
yeah same, Ontario, was always stuffed animals, first context for hearing plushie was fetish stuff but it's definitely just normalized now
Same in the SW USA. I always had "stuffed animals" as a kid and everyone around me called them that. I didn't hear the word "plushie" until well into the 2010s, when I first started hearing it from Bronies online, and it seems to have taken over rapidly from there
may be misremembering but. when i think about it i feel like i've had the opposite experience, hearing them called plush animals (not in english either) or just whatever they're made to look like, or toy/doll. and kinda associate "stuffed animal" with taxidermy
It's possible! Out of curiosity, general age ballpark? Doesn't have to be exact, just trying to consolidate data
25, that could be related :p though i feel like i would've heard more different terms
The marker seems to be somewhere in the 2000s, so that tracks, honestly
soda pop coke/traffic circle roundabout rotary type regionality, i had to guess