Knickers vs Shorts - What's the difference?
knickers | shorts |
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:
English plurals
Pants worn primarily in the summer that do not go lower than the knees.
Underwear bottoms.
(uncountable) Remnants, clippings, trimmings of production processes.
The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran.
* Halliwell
Short, inferior hemp.
As nouns the difference between knickers and shorts
is that knickers is knickerbockers while shorts is plural of lang=enCategory:English plurals.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?
See also
* French knickers * get one's knickers in a twist English pluralia tantum ----shorts
English
(wikipedia shorts)Noun
(en-plural noun)- Jessica hated covering her legs, so she rarely wore anything but shorts .
- After a scare like that, I need to change my shorts .
- The first remove above bran is shorts .