Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Long bloomers formerly worn as underwear by women and girls.
- n. Chiefly British Panties.
- n. Full breeches gathered and banded just below the knee.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- A contraction of knickerbockers. Also used adjectively, in the form knicker: as, a knicker suit.
Wiktionary
- n. colloquial, rare Knickerbockers.
- n. UK, New Zealand Women's underpants.
- interj. A mild exclamation of annoyance.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The name for a style of loose-fitting short trousers, gathered in and ending at the knees; smallclothes; called also
knickerbockers . - n. British Underpants, especially of women; panties.
WordNet 3.0
- n. trousers ending above the knee
- n. underpants worn by women
Etymologies
- Short for knickerbockers. (Wiktionary)
- Short for knickerbockers. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Happy to see the tradition of Hannah Spearrit in her knickers is being continued. #primeval The Egyptian stuff ... wince.”
“PS I had a look for a picture of aman in knickers by way of humour. .yeeeesh, Bough was clearly not alone in his peculiar predelictions.”
“In Britan (& Ireland) knickers is used as a term for everyday underwear (i.e. cotton etc) while French Knickers denotes a totally unique style, shape and allusion.”
“I agree that anyone who used the term underpants to describe french knickers is not portraying your “voice” properly to the average american.”
“Though I don't quote lyrics in this chapter, the song they dance to in their knickers is called Sway and it's the Julie London version.”
“Would it be fair to say she is a pig in knickers?? on December 21, 2007 at 3: 24 pm | Reply Stocking”
“I think that buying coloured knickers is perhaps a metaphor for my larger state of mind at the moment.”
“For his final event, Lodwick competed in knickers, a Norwegian ski club sweater and a necktie.”
USATODAY.com - Athlete of the Week Landis breaks from cycling pack
“On these journeys, it was his custom to dress in knickers or shorts and to go into remote villages and other places not usually touched by people on a grand tour.”
“On being paparazzied: "I don't want to fall over; I just want to get to my car, because if I fall over, someone's going to shove a camera lens up my skirt and get a picture of my knickers, which is kind of not cool.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘knickers’.
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UK - slang
fanny, nick, mufti, siphon, mug, smashing, butcher, stick up, knocker, porridge, tit, punter and 208 more...
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The weird, the wonderful and the plai...
Loved for their ingenuity, an exact description, or simply for the pure joy of it.
acidulous, aprosdoketon, higgledy-piggledy, lexicographical, ninja, audacious, somnabulist, shivaree, amorphous, quidnunc, glib, melancholy and 353 more...
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old timey talk
Words or Sayings from the 1920's or whatever that no one really uses anymore (at least in that context).
scram, bearcat, heavens to betsy, dick, double-cross, ducky, gams, goofy, hooch, jalopy, john, joe and 174 more...
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
abridgement (abri..., accoutrement, accoutre, acknowledgement (..., opposite, advert, adaptor, adapter, sticking plaster, advertise, adviser (advisor ..., adze, aesthete and 1196 more...
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"Queen's" English
Collection of words from Old Blighty
sorted, sketchy, mate, oi, innit, ol' chum, brilliant, wicked, arse, bloody, bollocks, wanker and 12 more...
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Pants related words
pants, trousers, pantaloons, dungarees, jodhpurs, breeches, chinos, knickers, slacks, chaps, skort, trucks and 1 more...
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Fun Words
Words that are fun to say....
gobbledygook, jings, crivens, hullabaloo, wheech, brouhaha, pizzazz, harum-scarum, namby-pamby, pussyfoot, frippery, pitter-patter and 333 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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unfathomably, glice, cuh, fab, ciggaty, doll, thuggin, oxymoronic, pineapple, succubutt, griming, cheeky and 2369 more... -
I do not like them, Sam I Am
Words that, for various reasons, I wish we could do without.
copacetic, gamut, horehound, lewd, membrane, metrics, mucous, mucus, negligee, nostril, odious, odor and 143 more...
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Pluralia Tantum
Nouns that are common in plural form but are non-existent or rarely used in singular form.
scissors, thanks, clothes, remains, tights, trousers, pants, news, billiards, means, mathematics, physics and 221 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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Words I'd Like to Use Someday
thundersnow, phantasmagoria, mercurial, chimerical, taciturn, paraclete, lapis lazuli, flay, guttersnipe, wonky, misanthrope, kestrel and 583 more...
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elvesoncrack's Words
lachrymose, blustering, fjord, chihuahua, chiffon, catalytic, stile, gefilte, prosh, thwart, ralph, ickle and 379 more...
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vinyl's Words
deliverator, finna, metric fuckton, fag, hyphy, ginormous, sacrilicious, fantabulous, macaca, n-word, pterodactyl, genious and 560 more...
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savage215's Words
pipe, yankee, knickerbocker, tennis, plasma, magma, volcano, car, truck, television, tv, word and 445 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for knickers.
frindley Undies! Oct 9, 2008
sonofgroucho As in "Don't get your knickers in a twist". Apr 1, 2007
seanahan I love British words. Feb 8, 2007