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betrousered

betrousered adjective: wearing pants or trousers.

Adjective

betrousered (not comparable)

  1. (humorous, usually) Wearing pants or trousers.
    • [W]hat undoubted mastery they have gained over some scores of betrousered twaddlers1862 August, William Edmondstoune Aytoun (anonymously), "The Rights of Women", Blackwood's Magazine, p. 182
    • Their appreciations are dependant, often in the most curious indirect ways, upon the fact that the author […] is betrousered.1911, David Graham Phillips, The Grain of Dust

Synonyms of betrousered

Origin of betrousered

From be- + trousered.

Questions about betrousered

What does betrousered mean?
Betrousered means wearing pants or trousers.
What part of speech is betrousered?
Betrousered is an adjective.

Words near betrousered in the dictionary

  1. betrotheth
  2. betrothing
  3. betrothment
  4. betrothments
  5. betroths
  6. betrousered
  7. betrow
  8. betrump
  9. betrumpet
  10. betrunk
  11. betrust

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