security blanket

English

Etymology

From Linus van Pelt's security blanket in Charles Schulz's comic strip Peanuts.

Noun

security blanket (plural security blankets)

1. A blanket that one uses to have a secure feeling or reduced anxiety, usually in the early years of life.
2. Any object one uses to have a sense of security or reduced anxiety.

   That rabbit's foot is his security blanket.

Translations

blanket used to produce secure feeling

• Finnish: turvariepu
• German: Kuscheldecke (de) f
• Swedish: snuttefilt (sv) c

any object used to produce sense of security

• Finnish: turvariepu
• Swedish: snuttefilt (sv) c