knickers

knickers

knickers (plural only)

1. (colloquial, now US, rare) Knickerbockers.
   • 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage 1993, p. 29:

     Students in the University were not permitted to keep cars, and the men – hatless, in knickers and bright pull-overs – looked down upon the town boys who wore hats cupped rigidly upon pomaded heads [...].

   • 1946, Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues, Payback Press 1999, p. 77:

     He was a student at Notre Dame, a robust Joe-College kind of kid, husky and tall and always dressed in plus-four knickers.

2. (UK) Womens underpants.
   • 2010, Sali Hughes, ‘Calendar girls galore’, The Guardian, 24 Apr 2010:

     The debate here is not over whether raising £26,000 (and counting) for our troops is a wonderful thing – it unarguably is – but over whether, whenever times are tough and money must be found, our default reaction as women should be to take off our knickers to help out?

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mutande

mutandine

Altri significati:

(UK) Women's underpants.

Piece of cloth adapted to cover the genitals and buttocks of a man or a woman.

A mild exclamation of annoyance.

women's underpants

(colloquial, now US, rare) Knickerbockers.

Traduzione 'veloce'

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