Meanings
alternative pantie hose · alternative pantie-hose · alternative pantihose · alternative panty hose · alternative panty-hose
- CanadaUSpluralplural onlyThin nylon tights worn over the legs, usually tan in color.
The last stall on the left is oversized, big enough for two people. Y.T.’s mom goes in, followed by the proctor, who closes and locks the door. Y.T.’s mom pulls down her panty hose, pulls up her skirt, squats over a pan, pees.
1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 270Synonyms: tights
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThin nylon tights worn over the legs, usually tan in color.
Origin
- Englishpanty
- Proto-Indo-European*(s)kewH-
- Proto-Germanic*husǭ
- Proto-West Germanic*hosā
- Old Englishhose
- Middle Englishhose
- Englishhose
- Englishpantyhose
Translations
Afrikaans sykous
- sykousnylon tights worn about legs
Basque panti
- pantinylon tights worn about legs
Chinese Cantonese 襪褲 /袜裤
- 襪褲 /袜裤 (mat⁶ fu³)nylon tights worn about legs
Chinese Mandarin 連褲襪 /连裤袜
- 連褲襪 /连裤袜 (liánkùwà)nylon tights worn about legs
Czech punčocháče
- punčocháčenylon tights worn about legs
Dutch panty
- pantynylon tights worn about legs
Esperanto kalsonŝtrumpo
- kalsonŝtrumponylon tights worn about legs
Finnish sukkahousut
- sukkahousutnylon tights worn about legs
French collants, bas-culotte
- collantsnylon tights worn about legs
- bas-culottenylon tights worn about legs
German Feinstrumpfhose, Strumpfhose
- Feinstrumpfhosenylon tights worn about legs
- Strumpfhosenylon tights worn about legs
Hungarian harisnyanadrág, harisnya
- harisnyanadrágnylon tights worn about legs
- harisnyanylon tights worn about legs
Italian collant
- collantnylon tights worn about legs
Japanese パンティストッキング, タイツ
- パンティストッキング (panti sutokkingu)nylon tights worn about legs
- タイツ (taitsu)nylon tights worn about legs
Korean 팬티 스타킹, 타이츠
- 팬티 스타킹 (paenti seutaking)nylon tights worn about legs
- 타이츠 (taicheu)nylon tights worn about legs
Norwegian Bokmål strømpebukse
- strømpebuksenylon tights worn about legs
Polish rajstopy
- rajstopynylon tights worn about legs
Portuguese meia-calça
- meia-calçanylon tights worn about legs
Romanian ciorap-chilot
- ciorap-chilotnylon tights worn about legs
Russian колго́тки
- колго́тки (kolgótki)nylon tights worn about legs
Spanish pantimedias, media
- pantimediasnylon tights worn about legs
- medianylon tights worn about legs
- pantinylon tights worn about legs
- pantimedianylon tights worn about legs
Swedish strumpbyxor
- strumpbyxornylon tights worn about legs
Turkish külotlu çorap
- külotlu çorapnylon tights worn about legs
Ukrainian колго́тки
- колго́тки (kolhótky)nylon tights worn about legs
Cite this entry
pantyhose. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pantyhose
“pantyhose.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pantyhose. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pantyhose,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pantyhose.
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