betrousered

English

Etymology

be- +‎ trousered

Adjective

betrousered (not comparable)

1. (usually humorous) Wearing pants or trousers.
   • 1862 August, William Edmondstoune Aytoun (anonymously), "The Rights of Women", Blackwood's Magazine, p. 182:

     [W]hat undoubted mastery they have gained over some scores of betrousered twaddlers

   • 1911, David Graham Phillips, The Grain of Dust:

     Their appreciations are dependant, often in the most curious indirect ways, upon the fact that the author […] is betrousered.

   • 1986, Judie Newman, “Kate Chopin, Short Fiction and the Art of Subversion”, in Robert A. Lee, editor, The Nineteenth-century American short story, page 152:

     'Regret' takes as its theme the regret of a betrousered old maid for the children she has never had.

Synonyms

• bepanted
• panted
• trousered

Hyponyms

• bejeaned

Anagrams

• outbreeders