unwhisperables

Noun

unwhisperables pl (plural only)

1. (archaic, plural, plural-only, slang) Trousers.
   • Now Mr. Daniel Pimple was clad in white corduroy unwhisperables, and Mrs. Coffin was robed in Lyons black velvet ; anon by design, not by accident, did Mr. Daniel Pimple bring his right white knee in contact with the widow's left black one.1839, Henry De la Pasture, Real pearls in a false setting, page 250
   • Madam, the good Yankee housewife, who has reminiscences of having sold her husband's second best unwhisperables one day in the earlier period of her wedded life, to a young Israelite with a big basket, rich with gaudy mantel ornaments, who rode down contemptuously, and annihilated before her very...1867, The Northern Monthly Magazine - Volume 1, page 109