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unutterables

unutterables noun: trousers. Also the plural of unutterable.

Noun

unutterables pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only, slang) Trousers.
    • […] not liking to sit in wet trousers took them off and hung them up before the fire to dry. He presented a very picturesque appearance wanting his unutterables.1961, Thomas Cather, Thomas Yoseloff, Voyage to America: The Journals of Thomas Cather, page 156

Also used as

unutterables is also the plural of unutterable.

Origin of unutterables

One of a set of words for trousers and undergarments suggesting that they cannot be mentioned. Compare inexpressibles, unmentionables, unwhisperables.

Questions about unutterables

What does unutterables mean?
Unutterables means trousers.
What part of speech is unutterables?
Unutterables is a noun.

Words near unutterables in the dictionary

  1. unutopias
  2. unutterabilities
  3. unutterability
  4. unutterable
  5. unutterableness
  6. unutterables
  7. unutterably
  8. unuttered
  9. unuxorial
  10. unuxorious
  11. UNV

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