Smalls vs Smalle - What's the difference?
smalls | smalle |
(UK, Australia, informal) Underwear.
* 1917 , , 2007, Echo Library,
* 2008 , Donna Wheeler, Melbourne & Victoria City Guide , Lonely Planet,
* 2008 , Shauna Reid, The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl ,
English plurals
As a noun smalls
is underwear.As an adjective smalle is
an archaic spelling of lang=en.smalls
English
Noun
(en-plural noun)- He's in the garden hanging his smalls on the washing line.
- The smalls he was wearing were tight.
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- Unkempt, bearded to the eyes, there he stood clutching his shapeless old cabbage-tree, in mud-stained jumper and threadbare smalls —the very spit of the unsuccessful digger.
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- there are also some great B&Bs and guesthouses where you can unpack a toothbrush and fresh set of smalls for the morning.
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- They billowed in the sticky summer breeze, curved and enormous like the sails of the Sydney Opera House.
- Just when did my smalls become so impossibly large?