Etymology

flimsies

flim·sies
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Today it means: Skimpy underwear. Full definition →

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The story

From flimsy (adjective) + -ies (variant of -es (suffix forming regular plurals of some nouns; and the third person singular present indicative forms of some regular verbs)).

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