Briefs vs Knickers - What's the difference?
briefs | knickers |
(pluralonly) A short type of underpants worn by men or boys.
(brief)
Knickerbockers.
* 1931 , William Faulkner, Sanctuary , Vintage 1993, p. 29:
* 1946 , Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues , Payback Press 1999, p. 77:
(UK, NZ) Women's underpants.
* 2010 , Sali Hughes, ‘Calendar girls galore’, The Guardian , 24 Apr 2010:
Knickers is a synonym of briefs.
As nouns the difference between briefs and knickers
is that briefs is plural of lang=en while knickers is knickerbockers.As a verb briefs
is third-person singular of brief.As an interjection knickers is
a mild exclamation of annoyance.briefs
English
(wikipedia briefs)Noun
(head)Usage notes
* Briefs are said to come in "pairs", which is to say that the phrase "pair(s) of" is used as a counter for them.Verb
(head)Anagrams
* *knickers
English
(wikipedia knickers)Noun
(en-plural noun)- 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 [...].
- He was a student at Notre Dame, a robust Joe-College kind of kid, husky and tall and always dressed in plus-four knickers .
- 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?
