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pantihose

pantihose is the alternative spelling of pantyhose.

Meaning of pantyhose

Noun

pantyhose pl (plural only)

  1. (Canada, US, plural, plural-only) Thin nylon tights worn over the legs, usually tan in color.
    • The last stall on the left is oversized, big enough for two people. Y.T.’s mom goes in, followed by the proctor, who closes and locks the door. Y.T.’s mom pulls down her panty hose, pulls up her skirt, squats over a pan, pees.1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 270
    Synonyms:
    tights

Origin of pantihose

Variant of the more common pantyhose, possibly from pantie (“variant form of panty”) + hose.

Words formed from pantihose

Questions about pantihose

What is pantihose the alternative spelling of?
Pantihose is the alternative spelling of pantyhose.

Words near pantihose in the dictionary

  1. pantied
  2. pantieless
  3. panties
  4. Pantifa
  5. Pantigate
  6. pantihose
  7. pantihosed
  8. pantihoses
  9. pantile
  10. pantile shop
  11. pantile shops

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pantihose (page history and authors); pantyhose (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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