bepantsed

See also: be-pantsed

English

Etymology

From be- +‎ pantsed.

Adjective

bepantsed (not comparable)

Alternative form of bepanted
- 1925, Life, volume 86, page 22:
  1. WHEN WILBUR WAS A LITTLE BOY AND DADDY’S PANTS WERE FRAYED / 2. A SNIP OF THE SHEARS / A STITCH OR TWO / 3. AND WILBUR WAS BEPANTSED ANEW
- 1970 January 28, Sarah Bennett, “Parents not with it”, in Fort Collins Coloradoan, volume 96, number 288, Fort Collins, Colo., page 16, column 1:
  Parents don’t like it, but are trying to stay in communication with their behaired sons and their bepantsed daughters. Although his daughters have his permission to wear slacks to school during extreme weather, they are not permitted to do so when the weather is good, said Ed VanDriel of 1212 West Mountain Avenue.
- 1971 March 15, [Jimmy] Hatlo, “Hatlo’s They’ll Do It Every Time”, in The Evening Sentinel, volume XC, number 78, Carlisle, Pa., page 3:
  gee! i like your pants-suit, flotilla! i think i’ll wear mine tomorrow! […] One in every office···the first gal to sashay in to work bepantsed···
- 1975 April 17, Jack Weatherly, “Dallas or Bust”, in The Courier News, volume 80, number 286, Blytheville, Ark., page eight, column 3:
  In the 1890’s “women were behind the stove,” he relates. But they cycled, too. “And they had difficulty pedalling bicycles with ankle-length skirts. “At the time,” Taylor said, “the most sinful thing a woman could do was to show light between her legs. “The original culotte was designed by a LAW member’s wife. The churches (in the East) termed this bepantsed female activity of biking “sinful bicycling,” he noted.
- 1995 August 5, “Weight for me — my pants are falling down”, in The Anniston Star, Anniston, Ala., page 8A, column 4:
  The winter pants didn’t fit either, I discovered, but I did find a couple of ancient pairs of wash-and-wears that came within a belt notch or so of fitting, close enough for wear as long as I kept the belt cinched up. Thus bepantsed, I went out and hit the men’s stores looking for a couple of cheap pairs of pants to do me over until I regained some weight.