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knickerbockered

knickerbockered adjective: dressed in knickerbockers.

Adjective

knickerbockered (not comparable)

  1. Dressed in knickerbockers.
    • I stood for a moment struck by the grotesque effect of his soaring figure—his dirty cricket cap, and spiky hair, his little round body, his arms and his knickerbockered legs tucked up tightly—against the weird spaciousness of the lunar scene.1900 December – 1901 August, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “chapter 9”, in The First Men in the Moon, London: George Newnes, […], published 1901, →OCLC

Origin of knickerbockered

From knickerbocker + -ed.

Questions about knickerbockered

What does knickerbockered mean?
Knickerbockered means dressed in knickerbockers.
What part of speech is knickerbockered?
Knickerbockered is an adjective.

Words near knickerbockered in the dictionary

  1. knicker drawer
  2. knicker drawers
  3. knickerbocker
  4. knickerbocker glories
  5. knickerbocker glory
  6. knickerbockered
  7. knickerbockers
  8. knickered
  9. knickerless
  10. knickerlessness
  11. knickers

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