knickers
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈnɪkəz/
- (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.
- 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage 1993, p. 29:
- (UK, NZ) Women's 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?
- For attributive usage of sense 2 see knicker.
- 2010, Sali Hughes, ‘Calendar girls galore’, The Guardian, 24 Apr 2010:
- French: knickers, knickerbockers
- Italian: pantaloni alla zuava
- A mild exclamation of annoyance.
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