Overalls vs Dungaree - What's the difference?
overalls | dungaree |
(not US or Canada) Loose fitting garment worn over regular clothes to protect them.
(qualifier) Loose fitting pair of pants with supporting cross-straps and a panel of material in the chest (called a bib), often associated with farm work.
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, title= (uncountable) Heavy denim fabric, often blue; blue jean material.
* 1893 ,
(plural only) Pants or overalls made from such fabric.
*{{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne
, title=Well Tackled!
, chapter=2
As nouns the difference between overalls and dungaree
is that overalls is plural of lang=en while dungaree is heavy denim fabric, often blue; blue jean material.overalls
English
(wikipedia overalls)Noun
(head)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls .}}
Synonyms
* (loose-fitting protective garment) boiler suit (UK), coveralls (qualifier) * (pants with bib) dungarees (UK); overalldungaree
English
Noun
- He wore an open jacket, with a splotch of tar on the sleeve, a red-and-black check shirt, dungaree trousers, and heavy boots badly worn.
citation, passage=Meanwhile, Macpherson stood just outside the door, holding a cold chisel which he had taken from a dungaree pocket [...] and there Mr. Willison found him.}}