innie

noun

in·nie ˈi-nē

plural innies

informal

: a navel that is concave

It was a fine belly-button; I kept it clean, I was proud to have such an attractive innie.—

Alexa Erickson

Got an innie? You're in the majority. Ninety percent of humans have innies.—

David Freeman

compare outie

Examples of innie in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web There’s a wide range of difference between innies and outties, or a combination of the two. —

Leyah Titford, refinery29.com, 28 Feb. 2024 Horrors pile up: The narrator’s outie belly button becomes an innie that grows deep enough to hold a bar of soap. —

Jake Cline, Washington Post, 8 July 2024 In the case of the navel, most people would rather have an innie. —

Washington Post, 24 June 2021

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