What is the difference between knickers and pants?
knickers | pants | Synonyms |
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:
* 1933 , , Rabble in Arms , 1996,
* 1989 , , Penguin (2006),
* 2010 , Ronald C. Eng (editor), Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills , 8th Edition, The Mountaineers Books, US,
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* 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 39:
* 1976 , Nathan H. Azrin, Richard M. Foxx, Toilet Training in Less Than a Day , 1988,
* 1984 , (Martin Amis), Money , Vintage (2005), page 183:
(fashion) English plurals
(UK, slang) rubbish; something worthless
To pull someone’s pants down; to forcibly remove someone’s pants.
* 1948 , University of California, Carolina Quarterly , page 47:
* 1980 , William Hogan, The Quartzsite Trip , Atheneum, page 242:
* 1993 , Harold Augenbraum, Ilan Stavans, Growing Up Latino: Memoirs and Stories , page 174:
(British, slang) of inferior quality, rubbish.
(pant)
Pants is a synonym of knickers.
As nouns the difference between knickers and pants
is that knickers is knickerbockers while pants is an outer garment worn by men and women that covers the body from the waist downwards, covering each leg separately, usually as far as the ankles; trousers.As an interjection knickers
is a mild exclamation of annoyance.As a verb pants is
to pull someone’s pants down; to forcibly remove someone’s pants.As an adjective pants is
of inferior quality, rubbish.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?
See also
* French knickers * get one's knickers in a twist English pluralia tantum ----pants
English
Etymology 1
Shortened from .Noun
(en-plural noun)page 220:
- “But they cover the legs,” Joseph explained. “That is the only reason my people wear pants': to cover the legs in the winter, or when traveling through rough country, full of thorns. In warm weather, or in open country, ' pants are unnecessary, uncomfortable, and foolish.”
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- Then he gave me a last desperate push and I tripped over the shorts caught around my ankles and fell down. I tried to pull my pants up with my boxing gloves but without success.In those days nobody wore underpants and I was bare-arsed and fancy free in front of everyone.
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- Look for pants' with reinforced seats and knees and full-length side zippers that make it possible to put the ' pants on while you are wearing boots, crampons, skis, or snowshoes.
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- I rolled up the legs of the pants , then I went back into the trees.
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- I decided to pass up her underclothes, not from feelings of delicacy, but because I couldn't see myself putting her pants on and snapping her brassière.
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- Big girls get candy for dry pants .
- As she bent over the intercom the little skirt went peek-a-boo and you could see white pants cupping her buttocks like a bra.
- You're talking pants !
- The film was a load (or pile) of pants .
Synonyms
* (outer garment that covers the body from the waist downwards) breeks, britches, hosen, slacks, strides, trousers * (undergarment that covers the genitals and often neighbouring body parts) drawers, underpants, underwear *: (for men) boxers, boxer shorts, BVD's, ginch, gitch, gonch, gotch, jockeys, jockey shorts, shorts, skivvies, undershorts *: (for women) underpants, knickers, pantiesHyponyms
* (outer garment that covers the body from the waist downwards) corduroys/cords, jeansDerived terms
* -pants * all mouth and pants, all mouth and no pants * beat the pants off * ), seat-of-the-pants * * hot pants/hotpants * kick in the pants * overpants * smarty pants * the pants off (with scare, bore, beat, etc.) * wear the pants *Verb
(es)- Keith Gerber has been pantsed twice already this summer by Lannie and Cling, and so his face is more resolved, the fear tempered by the fact that he understands these things to be inevitable.
- [T]he other boys, Stretch Latham and Rod Becker mainly, pantsed him, got his jockey shorts away and threw them onto Hubcap Willie’s roof.
- Richard did not stand too close to him, because he was always trying to pants him, and he would have died of shame if he did it tonight, because he knew his BVDs were dirty at the trap door.
Synonyms
* depants, de-pants, (British) kegAdjective
(en adjective)- Your mobile is pants — why don’t you get one like mine?