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underwears

underwears is the plural of underwear.

Meaning of underwear

Noun

underwear (usually uncountable, plural underwears)

  1. (usually) Clothes worn next to the skin, underneath outer clothing.
    • Don't scratch and bite, my little bear, you'll soon need bigger underwear.1998, Banjo-Kazooie, Rareware
    Antonyms:
    outerwear, overwear
  2. (colloquial, usually) Underpants (boxers, briefs, panties, etc) and often bras.
    • “A thong,” she answered him breathlessly. Now completely turned on by the fact that his man was sniffing her underwear and grinning like a tiger that took down its prey. That is if tigers could smile and still look sexy.2006, Toni L. Meilleur, Tournament of Fire

Questions about underwears

What is underwears the plural of?
Underwears is the plural of underwear.

Words near underwears in the dictionary

  1. underways
  2. underwear
  3. underweared
  4. underwearless
  5. underwearlessness
  6. underwears
  7. underwebbing
  8. underween
  9. underweened
  10. underweening
  11. underweens

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