underpant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Helene looked at the pallid child—her baby, whatever the world might say, even if the other woman was his mother fifty times over. He was wearing his pretty blue Sunday smock, and it was so filthy in front that it was practically matted. And one underpant leg hung down to the top of his boot.
ref: 1959, Sigrid Undset, “Thjodolf”, in Naomi Walfor, transl., Four Stories, Alfred A. Knopf; reprinted in Tiina Nunnally, transl., edited by Tim Page, The Unknown Sigrid Undset: Jenny and Other Works, South Royalton, Vt.: Steerforth Press, 2001, →ISBN, page 317:
text: A leading hosiery manufacturer who is responsible for a successful supermarket pantyhose has recently been unsuccessful in approaching several underpant manufacturers proposing that they produce a panty for them to be marketed exclusively in convenience outlets.
ref: 1975, Clothes, volume 10, PRADS, Incorporated, page 48:
text: Nearly 80% of polypropylene spunbonded fabrics are used for diapers for infants. Previously, polypropylene nonwoven fabrics were used only for side gathers. However, with underpant-type diapers increasing, these fabrics have come to be used for a portion of the back-sheet as well.
ref: 1997, JTN Monthly, numbers 506–511, Osaka Senken Limited, page 27:
text: A trawl through Kargil’s backstreets turns up underpant sellers, flip-flops made from recycled tyres, haberdashers, barbers and severed goats’ heads displayed on bookshelves.
ref: 2008, Laura Stone, “Leh–Srinagar Highway (India)”, in Himalaya by Bike, Trailblazer Publications, →ISBN, parts 2–8 (Route Outlines), page 170:
text: Within days she has assembled a list of Chinese underpant-makers who are terribly keen to meet me. But I still want, if possible, to follow a single pair of locally bought pants. […] At Quanzhou airport I am met by a driver sent by the underpant company and a couple of amputees.
ref: 2008, Joe Bennett, Where Underpants Come From: From Checkout to Cotton Field—Travels Through the New China and into the New Global Economy, New York, N.Y.: The Overlook Press, published 2009, →ISBN, pages 25 (Becoming Sherlock) and 103 (We Made Your Pants):
text: I always seemed to have an underpant leg showing out of my short trousers probably because they were my big brother’s old ones handed down to ‘get the wear out of them’. When the ‘laggy’ had gone you got both legs hanging out!
ref: 2013, John Wright, “Early Days”, in S’Funny How You Never Laugh at the Time Though, Innit?, Rothersthorpe: Paragon Publishing, →ISBN, page 6:
text: Wedgie the small defenseless Jewish child to the degree that their underpant leg holes are exposed ABOVE the waistband of their Umbro shorts. Then weave the broom handle (or other implement) through the exposed leg holes.
ref: 2021, Seth Rogen, Yearbook, Crown, →ISBN:
text: When Dudley got dressed after PE, he managed to get both of his legs through one underpant hole. He walked kind of crab-like for the rest of the day, which was OK until he got called up to the front of the class to read.
ref: 2022 July 7, Olaf Falafel, “A Bit about Me, a Bit about Beeks and a Bit about GeeGee”, in Trixie Pickle Art Avenger, Puffin, →ISBN:
glosses: Attributive form of underpants.