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shreddies

shreddies noun: underwear.

Noun

shreddies pl (plural only)

  1. (UK, plural, plural-only, slang) Underwear.
    • As Mark came out of the bathroom, I remembered my underpants. ¶ ‘Hey Mark, have you got my shreddies?’1995, Joe Simpson, This Game of Ghosts, The Mountaineers Books, →ISBN
    • As ah stand up n pill oan ma shreddies, then ma jeans in T-shirt, she's staring oaf intae space, then wrappin her clathes roond her.2001, Irvine Welsh, Glue, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 40

Origin of shreddies

From shreddy (“consisting of shreds”) + -ies (plural suffix for nouns ending in -y).

Questions about shreddies

What does shreddies mean?
Shreddies means underwear.
What part of speech is shreddies?
Shreddies is a noun.

Words near shreddies in the dictionary

  1. shredded wheat
  2. shredder
  3. shredders
  4. shreddeth
  5. shreddier
  6. shreddies
  7. shreddiest
  8. shreddiness
  9. shredding
  10. shreddings
  11. shredduce

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