underwear
noun/ˈʌndəwɛə/UK/ˈʌndɚˌwɛɹ/US
Etymology
From under- + -wear. Compare Dutch ondergoed, German Unterwäsche, Swedish underkläder.
- derived from underkläder
- derived from Unterwäsche
- derived from ondergoed
Definitions
Clothes worn next to the skin, underneath outer clothing.
- Don't scratch and bite, my little bear, you'll soon need bigger underwear.
- As a couple of soldiers sing a dirty song, he loses sight of the edge of the stage and falls off in the middle of his dance like a seasoned slapstick artist, his white legs in the air and his filthy underwear visible to all.
Underpants (boxers, briefs, panties, etc) and often bras.
- “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.
The neighborhood
- synonymshreddies
- synonymunderclothes
- synonymundergarment
- synonymundies
- synonymlingerie
- synonymskivvies
- synonymsmalls
- synonymsmallclothes
- synonymunderclothing
- synonymunderwear
- synonymunderthings
- synonymunmentionables
- neighbor:Category:Underwear
- neighborW:Undergarment
- neighborW:Lingerie
- neighborclothing
- neighborUndershirts
- neighborA-shirt
- neighborathletic shirt
- neighborcamisole
- neighborsinglet
- neighborundershirt
- neighborvest
- neighborwifebeater
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at underwear. 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.
A definitional loop anchored at underwear. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at underwear
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