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undergarment

noun
/ˌʌn.dəˈɡɑː.mənt/UK/ˌʌn.dɚˈɡɑɹ.mənt/US

Etymology

From under- + garment.

  1. derived from *warnijan✻ — “to ward off, refuse, deny”
  2. derived from guarnir
  3. derived from garnement
  4. inherited from garment
  5. formed as undergarment — “under- + garment”

Definitions

  1. Any garment worn underneath others, especially one worn next to the skin

    Any garment worn underneath others, especially one worn next to the skin; an item of underwear.

    • Richard DeLongpre: Are you okay, my boy angel? Allen Gregory DeLongpre: I have a broken heart. And undergarments filled with my own unruly waste.
    • In the Victorian Era, exposing your shirtfront in public was considered improper, as shirts were viewed as undergarments. Waistcoats concealed this and helped [to] tame oversized, billowy shirts.

  2. Temple garments worn by the followers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at undergarment. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01undergarment02latter-day03recent04old-fashioned05longer06longs07pants

A definitional loop anchored at undergarment. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at undergarment

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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