Trousers vs Betrousered - What's the difference?

As a noun trousers

is an article of clothing that covers the part of the body between the waist and the ankles, and is divided into a separate part for each leg.

As an adjective betrousered is

wearing pants or trousers.

trousers

English

(wikipedia trousers)

Noun

(en-plural noun)

An article of clothing that covers the part of the body between the waist and the ankles, and is divided into a separate part for each leg.

*:It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.

Synonyms

* (article of clothing) (Australia)

Usage notes

* "Pants" is about four times more common in the US than "trousers", based on use in COCA. * "Trousers" is about nine times more common in the UK than "pants", based on use in BNC. * "Slacks" about one tenth as common as "pants" in the US and "trousers" in the UK.

Hyponyms

* jeans * pantaloons * shorts * slacks * See also

References

English pluralia tantum

betrousered

English

Adjective

(-)

(usually, humorous) Wearing pants or trousers.

* 1862 August, , p. 182:

[W]hat undoubted mastery they have gained over some scores of betrousered twaddlers

* 1911 , , The Grain of Dust :

Their appreciations are dependant, often in the most curious indirect ways, upon the fact that the author is betrousered .

* 1986 , Judie Newman, "Kate Chopin, Short Fiction and the Art of Subversion", in Robert A. Lee (ed.) The Nineteenth-century American short story , p. 152:

'Regret' takes as its theme the regret of a betrousered old maid for the children she has never had.