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smalls | flower |

As nouns the difference between smalls and flower

is that smalls is underwear while flower is a colorful, conspicuous structure associated with angiosperms, frequently scented and attracting various insects, and which may or may not be used for sexual reproduction.

As a verb flower is

to put forth blooms.

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
  • flower

    English

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    Alternative forms

    * flowre (obsolete)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) flour, from (etyl) flur, from (etyl) (more at (l)).

    Noun