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Underwear vs Bikini - What's the difference?

underwear | bikini |

As nouns the difference between underwear and bikini

is that underwear is clothes worn next to the skin, underneath outer clothing while bikini is a brief two-piece bathing suit worn by women.

As a proper noun Bikini is

bikini atoll.

underwear

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Clothes worn next to the skin, underneath outer clothing.
  • * 2006 , Toni L. Meilleur, Tournament of Fire
    • “A thong,” she answered him breathlessly. Now completely turned on by the fact that his man was sniffing her underwear and grinning like a tiger that took down its prey. That is if tigers could smile and still look sexy.
  • Underpants (boxers, briefs, panties, etc) and bras.

    • Synonyms

    * shreddies * underclothes * undergarments * undies * See also

    bikini

    English

    (wikipedia bikini)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A brief two-piece bathing suit worn by women.
  • * 1950 , "In the Swim", Time , 2 Oct 1950:
    • Cole has little but scorn for France's famed Bikini bathing suits. Explains he: " French girls, have short legs. Swimsuits have to be hiked up at the sides to make their legs look longer. "

    Synonyms

    * (l)

    Coordinate terms

    * monokini

    Derived terms

    * bikini bottom * bikini line * bikini wax * flagkini * mankini * monokini * tankini * trikini