underwear

English

Etymology

From under- +‎ wear. Compare Dutch ondergoed, German Unterwäsche, Swedish underkläder.

Pronunciation

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Noun

underwear (usually uncountable; plural underwears)

1. Clothes worn next to the skin, underneath outer clothing.
   • 2006, Toni L. Meilleur, Tournament of Fire

     “A thong,” she answered him breathlessly. Now completely turned on by the fact that his man was sniffing her underwear and grinning like a tiger that took down its prey. That is if tigers could smile and still look sexy.

2. (euphemistic) Men's underpants.

Synonyms

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• shreddies
• underclothes
• undergarments
• undies
• See also Wikisaurus:underwear

Translations

clothes worn next to the skin

Afrikaans: onderklere (af) Albanian: ndërresa (sq) Arabic: الملابس الداخلية (ar) (al-malaabis al-daakhilíyya) pl. Belarusian: ніжняя бялізна (be) (nížnjaja bjalízna) f. Bulgarian: бельо (bg) (bel’ó) n. Catalan: roba interior (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 內衣 (zh), 内衣 (zh) (nèiyī), 襯衣 (zh), 衬衣 (zh) (chènyī) Crimean Tatar: ştan Czech: spodní prádlo (cs) n. Danish: undertøj (da) n. Dutch: ondergoed (nl) n. Esperanto: subvesto (eo) Faroese: undirklæði (fo) n. pl. Finnish: alusvaatteet (fi) pl. French: sous-vêtement (fr) m. German: Unterwäsche (de) f. Greek: εσώρουχα (el) (esóroucha) n. pl. Hungarian: alsónemű (hu), fehérnemű (hu) Irish: fo-éadaí (ga) m. pl. Italian: biancheria intima (it) f., intimo (it) m., (colluquial) mutande (it) f. pl. Japanese: 下着 (ja) (したぎ, shitagi) Korean: 속옷 (ko) (sogot)

Kurdish: ده‌رپێ Luxembourgish: Ënnerwäsch (lb) f. Macedonian: долна облека (mk) (dólna óbleka) f. Maltese: ħwejjeġ ta' taħt (mt) pl. Norwegian: Bokmål: undertøy (nb) n. Nynorsk: undertøy (nn) n., underty (nn) n. Polish: bielizna (pl) f. Portuguese: roupa de baixo (pt) f.,roupa íntima (pt) f., roupa interior (pt) f. Romanian: chiloți (ro) m. pl., lenjerie de corp (ro) Russian: нижнее бельё (ru) (nížneje bel’jó) n. Scottish Gaelic: fo-aodach (gd) m. Serbo-Croatian: donje rublje (sh) n., доње рубље (sh) n. Slovak: spodná bielizeň (sk) f. Spanish: ropa interior m., calzones m. pl. (Guatemala, Mexico), chones m. pl. (Mexico, colloquial) Swahili: chupi (sw) Swedish: underkläder (sv) pl. Taos: pànąthóna Telugu: లోబట్ట (lObatta) Turkish: iç çamaşırı (tr) Ukrainian: нижня білизна (uk) (nýžnja bilýzna) f. Volapük: sleafablit (vo), niblit (vo)