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smalls | smalle |

As a noun smalls

is underwear.

As an adjective smalle is

an archaic spelling of lang=en.

smalls

English

Noun

(en-plural noun)
  • (UK, Australia, informal) Underwear.
  • He's in the garden hanging his smalls on the washing line.
    The smalls he was wearing were tight.
  • * 1917 , , 2007, Echo Library, page 31,
  • 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.
  • * 2008 , Donna Wheeler, Melbourne & Victoria City Guide , Lonely Planet, page 198,
  • there are also some great B&Bs and guesthouses where you can unpack a toothbrush and fresh set of smalls for the morning.
  • * 2008 , Shauna Reid, The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl , page 7,
  • 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?
  • English plurals
  • smalle

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
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