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underthigh

underthigh noun: the back of a person's thigh.

Noun

underthigh (plural underthighs)

  1. The back of a person's thigh.
    • You may walk so as to use neither calf, under-thigh, nor hip to any appreciable extent; but it is hard work to run in any way so as not to develop all three […]1883, Albert Ellery Berg (ed.), The Universal Self-Instructor, New York: Thomas Kelly, “Out-Door Exercises,” p. 350
    • “She is female!” he bellows, stepping over my head in a fleeting perspective of underthighs and wobbling genitals.1956, John Howard Griffin, chapter 21, in Nuni, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 167
  2. The back upper portion of a pantleg or trouser leg.
    • […] you will, I hope, never omit taking the hip-measure, which will produce a proportionate under-thigh: you will find at all times the under-sides, from the crutch to the hip, longer than the top sides.1841, Dennis Ellard, A New and Easy Method of the Art of Cutting, London: for the author, page 13

Forms of underthigh

pluralunderthighs
alternative formunder-thigh
alternative formunder thigh

Origin of underthigh

From under + thigh.

Questions about underthigh

What does underthigh mean?
Underthigh means the back of a person's thigh.
What part of speech is underthigh?
Underthigh is a noun.
What is the plural of underthigh?
The plural of underthigh is underthighs.

Words near underthigh in the dictionary

  1. undertheorised
  2. undertheorize
  3. undertheorized
  4. undertheorizes
  5. undertheorizing
  6. underthigh
  7. underthighs
  8. underthing
  9. underthings
  10. underthink
  11. underthinker

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