knickerbockered

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adjective

Dressed in knickerbockers.

Scrabble 34
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Meanings

adjectiveknickerbockered (not comparable)
  1. not comparableDressed in knickerbockers.

    I stood for a moment struck by the grotesque effect of his soaring figure—his dirty cricket cap, and spiky hair, his little round body, his arms and his knickerbockered legs tucked up tightly—against the weird spaciousness of the lunar scene.

    1900 December – 1901 August, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “chapter 9”, in The First Men in the Moon, London: George Newnes, […], published 1901, →OCLC

Origin

From knickerbocker + -ed.

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APA

knickerbockered. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/knickerbockered

MLA

“knickerbockered.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/knickerbockered. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “knickerbockered,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/knickerbockered.

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