"knickers" meaning in English

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Interjection

IPA: /ˈnɪkəz/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-knickers.wav
enPR: nĭkʹərz [US] Rhymes: -ɪkə(ɹ)z Etymology: Clipping of knickerbockers. Etymology templates: {{clipping|en|knickerbockers}} Clipping of knickerbockers Head templates: {{en-interj}} knickers
  1. (UK, Ireland, colloquial) A mild exclamation of annoyance. Tags: Ireland, UK, colloquial Categories (topical): Clothing
    Sense id: en-knickers-en-intj-PvTUhJ0B Disambiguation of Clothing: 38 17 44 Categories (other): British English, Irish English

Noun

IPA: /ˈnɪkəz/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-knickers.wav Forms: knicker [attributive]
enPR: nĭkʹərz [US] Rhymes: -ɪkə(ɹ)z Etymology: Clipping of knickerbockers. Etymology templates: {{clipping|en|knickerbockers}} Clipping of knickerbockers Head templates: {{en-noun|p|attr=knicker}} knickers pl (plural only, attributive knicker)
  1. (colloquial, now US, rare) Knickerbockers. Tags: US, colloquial, plural, plural-only, rare Categories (topical): Clothing
    Sense id: en-knickers-en-noun-vfucnXtG Disambiguation of Clothing: 38 17 44 Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header, English pluralia tantum Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 18 52 29 Disambiguation of English pluralia tantum: 9 60 31
  2. (UK, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia) Women's underpants. Tags: Australia, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK, plural, plural-only Categories (topical): Clothing, Underwear Translations (woman's panties — see also panties): निकर (nikar) [masculine] (Hindi), जाँघिया (jāṅghiyā) [masculine] (Hindi), जांघिया (jāṅghiyā) [masculine] (Hindi), चड्डी (caḍḍī) [feminine] (Hindi), कच्छा (kacchā) [masculine] (Hindi), कच्छ (kacch) [masculine] (Hindi), volvu (Kabuverdianu), underbyxor [plural] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-knickers-en-noun-QYRrR2Z4 Disambiguation of Clothing: 38 17 44 Disambiguation of Underwear: 18 11 71 Categories (other): Australian English, British English, Irish English, New Zealand English Disambiguation of "woman's panties — see also panties": 42 58
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-knickers.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-knickers.wav.ogg"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "nĭkʹərz",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "knickers"
  ],
  "word": "knickers"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-24 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (82c8ff9 and f4967a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.