Knickers

Etymology
Short for knickerbockers:.

Noun

 * 1)  Knickerbockers.
 * 2) *1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage 1993, p. 29:
 * Students in the University were not permitted to keep cars, and the men – hatless, in knickers and bright pull-overs – looked down upon the town boys who wore hats cupped rigidly upon pomaded heads [...].
 * 1) *1946, Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues, Payback Press 1999, p. 77:
 * He was a student at Notre Dame, a robust Joe-College kind of kid, husky and tall and always dressed in plus-four knickers.
 * 1)  Women's underpants.
 * 2) *2010, Sali Hughes, ‘Calendar girls galore’, The Guardian, 24 Apr 2010:
 * The debate here is not over whether raising £26,000 (and counting) for our troops is a wonderful thing – it unarguably is – but over whether, whenever times are tough and money must be found, our default reaction as women should be to take off our knickers to help out?

Translations

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 * Scottish Gaelic: drathais
 * Volapük: sleafablit

Interjection

 * 1) A mild exclamation of annoyance.

Noun

 * 1)  for knickerbockers.
 * Il est venu en knickers.