Knickers vs Knickerlessness - What's the difference?
knickers | knickerlessness |
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:
The fact of being without knickers.
*2005 , Linda Ruth Williams, The Erotic Thriller in Contemporary Cinema , p. 224:
*:Stone's stardom rests on the knickerlessness of Basic Instinct ; Stone as actress tries to revisit and retake that scene, but fails to rewrite its significance.
*2007 , The Independent , 10 Jan 07:
*:Never have there been more opportunities to have one's knickerlessness displayed in so many formats.
*2008 , Tanya Gold, The Guardian , 26 Jun 08:
*:No, when she laid her arm on Norton and spoke of her knickerlessness , I think she wanted to say: "I am not what you think I am. I am not just a smiling, middle-class, slightly boring woman who wears caftans and talks about buffets."
As nouns the difference between knickers and knickerlessness
is that knickers is knickerbockers while knickerlessness is the fact of being without knickers.As an interjection knickers
is a mild exclamation of annoyance.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?