shorties

It is true they are pygmy clubs; just wee bits o’ things, toys. It is true that no self respecting golfer, all togged out in his shorties and tam, would deign to use them.

1923 August, “Golf”, in The Playground, volume XVII, number 5, Cooperstown, N.Y.: Playground and Recreation Association of America, →OCLC, page 291, column 1

His clean white blouse was tucked neatly into his shorties that ended at the sturdy healthy legs and even the knees below were clean and bare and the smell of shoe polish was evidence enough that the school week was starting “slick and clean.”

1929 July 15, Karl B. Musser, “A Tribute”, in Guernsey Breeders’ Journal, volume 36, number 2, Peterboro, N.H., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 75, column 2

Miguel picked up his badge and walked to the mirror with it. Still in his shorties, he practiced whipping the case out and flipping it open.

1990, Bruce Benderson, “The Mass Production of Teenagers”, in Pretending to Say No: A Novella and Eleven Stories, New York, N.Y.: Plume, →ISBN, part II, page 165