knickers. noun. British underwear for the lower body, typically worn by women or girls. The American word is panties.
Boxer. Boxer shorts are the classic underwear style – popular since your dad was a lad, if not before, and so called because they are similar to the shorts worn by boxers.
The word 'pants' comes to us from an Anglicization of the character's name, "Pantaloon." The word comes from the name of a stock figure in the commedia dell'arte, a form of Italian comic theater popular throughout Europe from about the 16th to the mid-18th century.
Daks: Australians call their trousers 'daks'. If someone mentions 'tracky daks', they're talking about sweatpants.
In North America, Australia and South Africa pants is the general category term, whereas trousers (sometimes slacks in Australia and North America) often refers more specifically to tailored garments with a waistband, belt-loops, and a fly-front.
Underdaks, also called underchunders or underdungers, is a colloquial name for your underpants. Daks are trousers, therefore underdaks must logically be underwear. Simple. Aussie slang is full of alternative words for our trousers and underwear.
Panties (in American English; also called underpants, undies, or knickers in British English) are a form of underwear worn by women.
Knickers, meaning underpants, is primarily a British term, although Americans will usually know what you mean if you use it.
The word jumper is usually used more in the UK. A jumper is a long-sleeved item worn on the top half of your body, and like a sweater, is usually considered knitted or crocheted, but also seen made of jersey fabric or cotton too.
Scone (UK) / Biscuit (US)
These are the crumbly cakes that British people call scones, which you eat with butter, jam, sometimes clotted cream and always a cup of tea.
French knickers (also called tap pants in the United States) are a type of women's underwear or lingerie. The term is predominantly used in the United Kingdom (UK) and Australia to describe a style of underpants that look similar to a pair of shorts.
In British slang in the 1930s, wet insulted someone considered weak, whiny, or foolish.
A brassiere is the same as a bra.
The most common British slang terms for flatulence are “fart”, “trump,” “parp” or “toot”. Other terms which might more accurately be called simply euphemisms include “break wind” or “pass gas”. These are the most common and really the only universally used terms, though there are some rarer terms like “cut the cheese”.
Trackie dacks are tracksuit trousers, and underdacks are underpants or knickers.
Knickers can also be used in a general way to mean “panties.” Knickers appears in a few British idioms, including most commonly get one's knickers in a twist (or bunch or knot), which means “to get overly upset” and is typically used in a rude command not to do that.
If someone is getting their knickers in a twist about something, they are getting annoyed or upset about it without good reason.
1. to do a poop: I gotta goona. 2. gunna (pronounced 'goona') = manure: I stepped in dog gunna; That kid is in deep gunna.
Fanny is an extremely offensive Australasian slang term for the female genitalia, so announcing to an Australasian that you ``patted your friend on the fanny'' can can leave him or her with decidedly the wrong impression. The word you are searching for is bum.
(Australia, New Zealand, euphemistic) A fart.
The shoe known in Australia as a "thong" is one of the oldest styles of footwear in the world. Worn with small variations across Egypt, Rome, Greece, sub-Saharan Africa, India, China, Korea, Japan and some Latin American cultures, the shoe was designed to protect the sole while keeping the top of the foot cool.
While NSW took the 'costume' part to create cossies, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, and Tasmania, ran with 'bathing'. Bathers became the name synonymous with swimwear in these parts, with the term outranking all others in the country.
That's because we're using Australian English in this blog post, and 'pyjamas' is the correct spelling in Australia. It's also the standard spelling in most other English-speaking countries, including the UK.
'Piddle' in cockney rhyming slang, meaning to urinate.