unutterables

English

Etymology

One of a set of words for trousers and undergarments suggesting that they cannot be mentioned. Compare inexpressibles, unmentionables, unwhisperables.

Noun

unutterables pl (plural only)

1. (slang) Trousers.
   • 1961, Thomas Cather, Thomas Yoseloff, Voyage to America: The Journals of Thomas Cather, page 156:

     […] not liking to sit in wet trousers took them off and hung them up before the fire to dry. He presented a very picturesque appearance wanting his unutterables.

Noun

unutterables

1. plural of unutterable

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

Anagrams

• enturbulates