- breeches: trousers ending above the knee
- bloomers: underpants worn by women; "she was afraid that her bloomers might have been showing"
- Knickerbockers; Women's underpants; A mild exclamation of annoyance
- (knicker) distortion of 'nicker', meaning £1. See entry under 'nicker'. See also 'pair of knickers'.
- underpants, bloomers, shorts, more generally, pants. "Don't get your knickers in a twist" = Don't get upset (familiar, but not rude. Origin "the Basil Brush Show", a British kidult humour programme from the 1970s. Similarly, "Don't get your tits in a tangle", origin unknown.
- Although several websites say that this is a slangy, generic British term for underwear, I’ve only ever heard it refer to women’s underwear. That’s why it’s an insult to tell a man “not to get his knickers in a bunch” – because he’s allegedly wearing women’s underwear, see?
- originally a colloquial contraction of knickerbockers . Knickerbockers were (at first) short, loose-fitting trousers gathered in at or just below the knee. Then knickerbockers came to be applied to bloomer-like underwear worn by women. ...
- Baggy trousers worn by golfers in the 1930s. They were called "plus fours" because they were cut off four inches below the knee, then tucked into long socks. ...
- puffy pants that gather just below the knees, exposing the calves.
- n. 1. Bloomers. Old ladies underwear which are loose, baggy, made of flannel and come to the knees. A knickerbocker glory is an ice cream concoction similar to a giant banana split. The phrase ``Don't get your knickers in a twist'' is a plea not to get upset about something.
- In South Africa, we refer to Knickers as panties.
- fairly loose-fitting short pants that are gathered at the knee.
- ‘Panties’. As in, ‘get one’s knickers’ in a twist’ (implies stressing) or ‘get in someone’s knickers’ (implies sex. Or, transvestism).
- Plus Fours (old-fashioned golf trousers)