unutterables
English edit
Etymology edit
One of a set of words for trousers and undergarments suggesting that they cannot be mentioned. Compare inexpressibles, unmentionables, unwhisperables.
Noun edit
unutterables pl (plural only)
- (slang) Trousers.
- 1961, Thomas Cather, Thomas Yoseloff, Voyage to America: The Journals of Thomas Cather, page 156:
- […] not liking to sit in wet trousers took them off and hung them up before the fire to dry. He presented a very picturesque appearance wanting his unutterables.
Noun edit
unutterables
References edit
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary