gym knickers
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.94 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Large girls' underpants traditionally worn as shorts during school sports activities.
British usage
Example Sentences
- ""But instead of going there, I sneaked into the Trunchbull's room. And after a speedy search I found the drawer where she kept all her gym knickers.""
- "I never knew why they singled me out, though at the time I believed it was because my mother made me wear green gym knickers and everyone else's were navy or white."
- "I remember being forced to do cross-country runs in horrible navy gym knickers, which is a nightmare when you're not exactly built like Paula Radcliffe [...]."
Usage
- British usage