undergarment

English

Etymology

From under- +‎ garment.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌʌn.də(ɹ).ˈɡɑɹ.mənt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌʌn.dɚ.ˈɡɑɹ.mənt/

Noun

undergarment (plural undergarments)

1. Any garment worn underneath others, especially one worn next to the skin; an item of underwear.
   • 2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1):

     Richard DeLongpre: Are you okay, my boy angel?

     Allen Gregory DeLongpre: I have a broken heart. And undergarments filled with my own unruly waste.

2. (religion, in the plural) Temple garments worn by the followers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Synonyms

• (temple garments): Jesus jammies

Translations

any garment worn underneath others

• Bulgarian: долни дрехи f pl (dolni drehi)
• Dutch: onderkledingstuk
• Esperanto: subvesto
• Finnish: alusvaate (fi)
• French: sous-vêtement (fr) m
• German: Unterwäsche (de) f
• Greek: εσώρουχο (el) n (esóroucho)
• Hungarian: alsónemű (hu), fehérnemű (hu)
• Irish: ball fo-éadaigh m, fo-éadaí m pl (undergarments)
• Japanese: 下着 (ja) (shitagi)
• Kazakh: ішкі киім (ışkı kiım)
• Malayalam: അടിവസ്ത്രം (aṭivastraṃ)
• Manx: fo-gharmad m
• Polish: bielizna (pl) f
• Swedish: underplagg n
• Thai: ชุดชั้นใน (chút-chán-nai)
• Welsh: crys (cy) m

See also

• undergarment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia