underwear

noun
/ˈʌndəwɛə/UK/ˈʌndɚˌwɛɹ/US

Etymology

From under- + -wear. Compare Dutch ondergoed, German Unterwäsche, Swedish underkläder.

  1. derived from underkläder
  2. derived from Unterwäsche
  3. derived from ondergoed

Definitions

  1. 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.
  2. 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

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.

01underwear02briefs03close-fitting04form-fitting05closely06privately07private08personal09intimate

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