Meanings
noununderthing (plural underthings)
plural underthings
- in pluralAn undergarment.
'Have you left your underthings off?' he asked her. 'Yes!' 'Ay, well, then I'll take my things off too.'
1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter XII, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC1 more example
My wife would never dare to buy an underthing that was anything but white or black. She thought you had to be a hooker to wear colors.
1979, Lewis Yablonsky, The extra-sex factor: why over half of America's married men play around, page 64
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