spongebag pants
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The town’s best dressed doorman is outside the Silver Dollar in East Fifty-fourth street, wearing gray top hat and racing coat and spongebag pants."
- "[…]the formidable old Charles Soames—who scared even me, when I met him later on, with his wall eye, monocle and spongebag pants."
- "John the Baptist would have been horrified at the beautifully cut dark, double-breasted jacket and the natty gray sponge bag pants."
- "‘Bishops, flood-lit Highlanders dancing reels under the palm-trees, Matrons, Maids, Saris, Sarongs, Black faces, White uniforms, and the hero of the party, Prince Mohammed Aly, in spongebag pants, red Tarboosh and carnation, and an emerald in his tie the size of a golf ball,’ observed Coats."
- "The ceremony was a formal affair and the men were expected to wear morning suits. So I dutifully pulled out my black tailcoat from Hackett, my black-and-white dogtooth-check “spongebag” pants, a Cornish cream hopsack waistcoat, a nice cornflower blue shirt with a stiff white collar, my silver tie from Ralph Lauren and a pair of highly polished, black Oxford shoes by New & Lingwood of Jermyn Street."
Usage
- American usage