knickersとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Clipping of knickerbockers.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈnɪkəz/
• (米国発音) enPR: nĭkʹərz, IPA: /ˈnɪkɚz/
• 韻: -ɪkə(ɹ)z

名詞

knickers pl (plural only, attributive knicker)

1. (colloquial, now US, rare) Knickerbockers.
   • 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 29:

     Students in the University were not permitted to keep cars, and the men – hatless, in knickers and bright pull-overs – looked down upon the town boys who wore hats cupped rigidly upon pomaded heads […] .

   • 1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Them First Kicks are a Killer”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 2 (1923–1928: Chicago, Chicago), page 77:

     He was a student at Notre Dame, a robust Joe-College kind of kid, husky and tall and always dressed in plus-four knickers.

2. (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Women's underpants.
   • 2010 April 24, Sali Hughes, “Calendar girls galore”, in The Guardian:

     The debate here is not over whether raising £26,000 (and counting) for our troops is a wonderful thing – it unarguably is – but over whether, whenever times are tough and money must be found, our default reaction as women should be to take off our knickers to help out?

派生語

間投詞

knickers

1. (UK, Ireland, colloquial) A mild exclamation of annoyance.