knickers
/ˈnɪkɚz/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.95 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Students in the University were not permitted to keep cars, and the men – hatless, in knickers and bright pull-overs – looked down upon the town boys who wore hats cupped rigidly upon pomaded heads […]."
- "He was a student at Notre Dame, a robust Joe-College kind of kid, husky and tall and always dressed in plus-four knickers."
- "The debate here is not over whether raising £26,000 (and counting) for our troops is a wonderful thing – it unarguably is – but over whether, whenever times are tough and money must be found, our default reaction as women should be to take off our knickers to help out?"
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈnɪkɚz/
- British English: /ˈnɪkəz/
Usage
- American usage
- Colloquial
- British usage