underthigh
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The back upper portion of a pantleg or trouser leg.
Example Sentences
- "1883, Albert Ellery Berg (ed.), The Universal Self-Instructor, New York: Thomas Kelly, “Out-Door Exercises,” p. 350, You may walk so as to use neither calf, under-thigh, nor hip to any appreciable extent; but it is hard work to run in any way so as not to develop all three […]"
- "“She is female!” he bellows, stepping over my head in a fleeting perspective of underthighs and wobbling genitals."
- "Dalziel […] raised his left leg to scratch his under thigh."
- "His underthighs itched against the wicker seat of his chair."
- "[…] you will, I hope, never omit taking the hip-measure, which will produce a proportionate under-thigh: you will find at all times the under-sides, from the crutch to the hip, longer than the top sides."
Etymology
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Medicine.