knickerbocker

See also: knickerbockers, Knickerbocker, and Knickerbockers

English

Etymology

See knickerbockers.

Noun

knickerbocker (uncountable)

1. (archaic, used attributively as a modifier) Of or relating to knickerbockers.
   • 1892, The Twentieth Century:

     ...with a rudimentary beard to set it off, a dirty shirt, a rifle, a coat over my arm, and half a grouse in my knickerbocker pocket.

   • 1905, Daniel Leavens Cady, Stray Breaths of North East Song:

     His knickerbocker days are gone,
     His last long stockings laid away:
     My baby has his trousers on, —
     My boy becomes a man to-day.

2. A linsey-woolsey fabric with a rough knotted surface on the right side, formerly used for women's dresses.

Derived terms

• knickerbocker glory

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /(k)ni.kœʁ.bɔ.kœʁ/
• Rhymes: -œʁ

Noun

knickerbocker m (plural knickerbockers)

1. Alternative form of knickerbockers