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underthighs

underthighs is the plural of underthigh.

Meaning of underthigh

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
  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

Questions about underthighs

What is underthighs the plural of?
Underthighs is the plural of underthigh.

Words near underthighs in the dictionary

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

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