bikini
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Marshallese pik
Marshallese ni
Marshallese Pikinnibor.
German Bikinibor.
English Bikinibor.
French Bikini
French bikinibor.
English bikini
From French bikini, named after the place name Bikini, from English Bikini, the name of the atoll where the United States tested nuclear weapons in July 1946; it was reckoned that the bathing suit would cause as much excitement as a nuclear bomb. This name was originally from German Bikini, the colonial name of the atoll as part of German New Guinea, and this was derived from Marshallese Pikinni.
Inflected forms:
form: bikinis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A brief, often minimalistic two-piece bathing suit worn by women, especially one that exposes the midriff and navel.
pos: noun
examples: Cole has little but scorn for France's famed Bikini bathing suits. Explains he: " French girls, have short legs. Swimsuits have to be hiked up at the sides to make their legs look longer. "
The café where they were gathered, Bikini Beans, was part of a chain whose baristas wear bikinis.
gloss: A brief bathing suit covering only the pelvis (equivalent to the bottom portion of a two-piece bikini), worn by any gender.
pos: noun
examples: We high-schoolers didn't understand why death came in the form of a gorgeous young man with muscles in a skimpy bikini.
[…]a group of bikini-clad young men had started a game, and Alex could see why lifeguards referred to men's bikinis as banana hammocks. She made a mental note: No men in bikinis in my picnic issue. She was also, naturally, noticing what the women were wearing. It was, as Mel had said, mostly shorts and cutoffs, halters, cotton[…]
gloss: Brief underpants or trousers that reach to the hips rather than the waist and have high cut leg holes.
pos: noun
examples: Boxer shorts, knitted briefs, and bikinis are the most popular styles in shorts, formerly called “drawers.”
[…] slid his pants off, revealing glimpses of red cotton bikinis covered by the tail of his white oxford.
But it was easy to see that someone had been in. The room was turned upside down!¶Megane stuck her head through the door. Then discovered the state the room was in.¶She ran in. She was nearly in tears when she saw her shorty briefs and bikinis scattered all over the floor.
Related words: swim briefs
Derived words: bandikini
bandini
bandkini
Beijing bikini
bikini babe
bikini bar
bikini beach
bikini body
bikini bottom
bikini bridge
bikini briefs
bikini contest
bikinied
bikini jeans
bikiniless
bikinilike
bikini line
bikini line incision
bikini panties
bikini top
bikini wax
bikini waxing
burqini
burkini
camikini
cheekini
facekini
fatkini
full bikini wax
halterini
halterkini
mankini
microbikini
microkini
monokini
pubikini
seekini
skirtini
sling bikini
slingkini
string bikini
stringkini
tankini
trikini
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: bikini
lang: Albanian
word: bikini
lang: Amharic
word: ቢኪኒ
roman: bikini
lang: Arabic
word: بِيكِينِي
roman: bīkīnī
lang: Armenian
word: բիկինի
roman: bikini
lang: Azerbaijani
word: bikini
lang: Basque
word: bikini
lang: Belarusian
word: бікі́ні
roman: bikíni
lang: Bengali
word: বিকিনি
roman: bikini
lang: Bulgarian
word: бики́ни
roman: bikíni
lang: Catalan
word: biquini
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 三點式 /三点式
roman: saam¹ dim² sik¹
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 比堅尼 /比坚尼
roman: bei² gin¹ nei⁴
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 比基尼
roman: bǐjīní
lang: Czech
word: bikiny
lang: Danish
word: bikini
lang: Dutch
word: bikini
lang: Esperanto
word: bikino
lang: Estonian
word: bikiinid
lang: Finnish
word: bikinit
lang: French
word: bikini
lang: Georgian
word: ბიკინი
roman: biḳini
lang: German
word: Bikini
lang: Greek
word: μπικίνι
roman: bikíni
lang: Hebrew
word: בִּיקִינִי
roman: bikini
lang: Hindi
word: बिकिनी
roman: bikinī
lang: Hungarian
word: bikini
lang: Indonesian
word: bikini
lang: Italian
word: bikini
lang: Japanese
word: ビキニ
roman: bikini
lang: Kazakh
word: бикини
roman: bikini
lang: Korean
word: 비키니
roman: bikini
lang: Kyrgyz
word: бикини
roman: bikini
lang: Latvian
word: bikini
lang: Lithuanian
word: bikinis
lang: Macedonian
word: бики́ни
roman: bikíni
lang: Malay
word: bikini
lang: Maltese
word: bikini
lang: Marathi
word: बिकिनी
roman: bikinī
lang: Mongolian
word: бикини
roman: bikini
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: bikini
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: bikini
lang: Persian
word: بیکینی
roman: bikini
lang: Polish
word: bikini
lang: Portuguese
word: biquíni
lang: Romanian
word: bikini
lang: Russian
word: бики́ни
roman: bikíni
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: бикини
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: bikini
lang: Slovak
word: bikiny
lang: Slovene
word: bikini
lang: Spanish
word: biquini
lang: Swedish
word: bikini
lang: Tajik
word: бикини
roman: bikin-i
lang: Tamil
word: நீச்சலுடை
roman: nīccaluṭai
lang: Telugu
word: బికినీ
roman: bikinī
lang: Thai
word: บิกินี
roman: bì-gì-nîi
lang: Turkish
word: bikini
lang: Ukrainian
word: бікі́ні
roman: bikíni
lang: Urdu
word: بکنی
roman: bikinī
lang: Uzbek
word: bikini
lang: Uzbek
word: бикини
roman: bikini
lang: Vietnamese
word: bikini
lang: Vietnamese
word: áo tắm hai mảnh
lang: Volapük
word: bikinit
lang: Volapük
word: niblitül
lang: Welsh
word: bicini
lang: Welsh
word: bicinis
lang: Yiddish
word: ביקיני
roman: bikini