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Gartered vs Ungartered - What's the difference?

gartered | ungartered |

As adjectives the difference between gartered and ungartered

is that gartered is wearing a garter while ungartered is not gartered.

As a verb gartered

is (garter).

gartered

English

Adjective

(-)
  • wearing a garter

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (garter)

    • garter

    English

    (wikipedia garter)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A band worn around the leg to hold up a sock or stocking.
  • (heraldry) A bendlet.

    • Derived terms

    * garter snake * have someone's guts for garters * Order of the Garter

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to fasten with a garter

    • Anagrams

    * *

    ungartered

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not gartered.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1891, author=Various, title=Character Writings of the 17th Century, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=He is untrussed, unbuttoned, and ungartered , not out of carelessness, but care; his farthest end being but going to bed. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1899, author=Henry Theophilus Finck, title=Primitive Love and Love-Stories, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Then your hose should be ungartered , your bonnet unbanded, your sleeve unbuttoned, your shoe untied, and everything about you demonstrating a careless desolation." }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1904, author=J. Sheridan Le Fanu, title=The House by the Church-Yard, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Happily the table behind which he stood was one of those old-fashioned toilet affairs, with the back part, which was turned toward the door, sheeted over with wood, so that his ungartered stockings and rascally old slippers, were invisible. }}