underthing
English
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[edit]underthing (plural underthings)
- (chiefly in the plural) An undergarment.
- 1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter XII, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC:
- 'Have you left your underthings off?' he asked her. 'Yes!' 'Ay, well, then I'll take my things off too.'
- 1979, Lewis Yablonsky, The extra-sex factor: why over half of America's married men play around, page 64:
- My wife would never dare to buy an underthing that was anything but white or black. She thought you had to be a hooker to wear colors.