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knick·ers

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–noun (used with a plural verb

)

1.	Also, knick·er·bock·ers Audio Help [nik-er-bok-erz] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation. loose-fitting short trousers gathered in at the knees.

Chiefly British.

a.	a bloomerslike undergarment worn by women.

panties.

3.	British Informal. a woman's or girl's short-legged underpants.

—Idiom

4.	to get one's knickers in a twist, British Slang. to get flustered or agitated: Don't get your knickers in a twist every time the telephone rings.

[Origin: 1880–85; shortened form of knickerbockers, pl. of knickerbocker, special use of Knickerbocker

]

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knick·ers Audio Help (nĭk'ərz) Pronunciation Key
pl.n.

1. Long bloomers formerly worn as underwear by women and girls.
2. Chiefly British Panties.
Full breeches gathered and banded just below the knee.

[Short for knickerbockers.]

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knickers

"short, loose-fitting undergarment," now usually for women, 1881, shortening of knickerbockers (1859), said to be so called for their resemblance to those of Dutchmen in Cruikshank's illustrations from Washington Irving's "History of New York" (see knickerbocker).

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knickers
noun
1.	trousers ending above the knee [syn: breeches]
2.	underpants worn by women; "she was afraid that her bloomers might have been showing" [syn: bloomers]

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
knickers [ˈnikəz] noun plural

women's and girls' pants, especially if loose-fitting and gathered in at the thigh

Arabic:	بَنْطَلون قَصير نِسائي
Chinese (Simplified):	灯笼裤
Chinese (Traditional):	燈籠褲
Czech:	kalhotky
Danish:	underbukser
Dutch:	slipje
Estonian:	püksikud, (naiste) puhvpüksid
Finnish:	alushousut
French:	culotte, knickers
German:	der Schlüpfer
Greek:	κιλότα
Hungarian:	bugyi
Icelandic:	nærbuxur kvenna
Indonesian:	celana tanggung
Italian:	mutandine*, knickers

Japanese:	ブルマー
Latvian:	(sieviešu) biksītes
Lithuanian:	kelnės
Norwegian:	gammeldagse truser
Polish:	majtki
Portuguese (Brazil):	calcinha
Portuguese (Portugal):	calcinhas
Romanian:	chiloţi de damă
Russian:	панталоны
Slovak:	nohavičky
Slovenian:	ženske spodnjice
Spanish:	bragas
Swedish:	underbyxor
Turkish:	kadın külodu