Crossword clues for knickers
knickers
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Knickerbockers \Knick"er*bock`ers\, n. pl. The name for a style of short breeches; smallclothes; called also knickers.
knickers \knick"ers\, n. pl.
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The name for a style of loose-fitting short trousers, gathered in and ending at the knees; smallclothes; called also knickerbockers.
Syn: breeches, knee breeches, knee pants, knickerbockers.
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Underpants, especially of women; panties. [British]
Syn: bloomers, pants, drawers.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"short, loose-fitting undergarment," now usually for women but not originally so, 1866, shortening of knickerbockers (1859), said to be so called for their resemblance to the trousers of old-time Dutchmen in Cruikshank's illustrations for Washington Irving's "History of New York" (see knickerbocker).
Wiktionary
interj. A mild exclamation of annoyance. n. 1 (context colloquial now US rare English) knickerbockers. 2 (context UK NZ English) woman underpants.
WordNet
n. trousers ending above the knee [syn: breeches, knee breeches, knee pants, knickerbockers]
(usually in the plural) underpants worn by women; "she was afraid that her bloomers might have been showing" [syn: bloomers, pants, drawers]
Usage examples of "knickers".
None of the girls punish Libby, although they relish watching her lower her knickers and bend over when her fiance Paul canes her--a rare treat.
She was wearing knickers, which was unusual for her, the silken gusset of which was soaked with self-induced love juices.
Picking up her scrumpled T-shirt from the floor, she then retrieved her knickers from under the bed and started looking for a comb.
There was wine on my knickers, not a lot, and I had to shake them out carefully to make sure there was no glass as well, and, keeping an eye on him struggled back into them, and then all the rest.
In place of skirts they disported green and glossy silk tights and little gawdy knickers.
In windbreaker and knickers he sticks fast to his bollard, he grinds, before attacking the bottle, goes on grinding the same song as soon as the bottleneck is released, and keeps on blunting his teeth.
She stroked a delicate satin butterfly appliqued on the back of a pair of French knickers, her objections suddenly silenced.
In his dreams these charming nymphettes were climbing a ladder on their way to bed, and he was on duty beside the ladder watching them climb, catching glimpses of their slightly soiled knickers as they disappeared into the sky.
Picking up her scrumpled T-shirt from the floor, she then retrieved her knickers from under the bed and started looking for a comb.
In opera hats, bedgowns, bonnets, yellow slickers, periwigs, knickers and snoods they paraded under the sun, some of the "women," seen now at closer range, appearing to be men in women's clothing, as though to correct a deficiency and even up the pairings.
Finally, with great seriousness, Mrs Erskine-Brown asked, 'And tell us, Dr Cogger, if a young woman came to you with a sore throat, can you think of any reason for asking her to lie on a couch and remove her knickers?
The man in knickers, hired probably because he resembled the archetypal Irish immigrant--craggy, handsome, thick reddish hair, square face crosshatched with weathered lines--was holding forth in disappointingly American tones.
He looked vaguely familiar, so she smiled, then went absolutely scarlet as she realized the last time she'd seen him she'd been in her bra and knickers, bopping in the rain.
Hoxey might not like it, and the Combined Chiefs might get their knickers in a bind over it, but it was done.