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Origin:
1605–15; < Hindi dungrī kind of coarse cloth
1605–15; < Hindi dungrī kind of coarse cloth
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Dungarees
is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
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dungarees
trousers originally designed in the United States by Levi Strauss in the mid-19th century as durable work clothes, with the seams and other points of stress reinforced with small copper rivets. They were eventually adopted by workingmen throughout the United States and then worldwide.
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