Contextualizebeta

shreddies

noun

Etymology

From shreddy (“consisting of shreds”) + -ies (plural suffix for nouns ending in -y).

  1. inherited from *(s)ker-✻ — “to cut off”
  2. inherited from *skraudaną✻ — “to cut up; to shred”
  3. inherited from *skraudōn✻
  4. inherited from sċrēadian — “to cut up, shred; to cut off; to prune, trim”
  5. inherited from shreden
  6. suffixed as shreddy — “shred + y”
  7. suffixed as shreddies — “shreddy + ies”

Definitions

  1. Underwear.

    • 1995, Joe Simpson, This Game of Ghosts, The Mountaineers Books, →ISBN, As Mark came out of the bathroom, I remembered my underpants. ¶ ‘Hey Mark, have you got my shreddies?’
    • 2001, Irvine Welsh, Glue, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 40, As ah stand up n pill oan ma shreddies, then ma jeans in T-shirt, she's staring oaf intae space, then wrappin her clathes roond her.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for shreddies. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA