different between boardies vs swimsuit

English

Pronunciation

Noun

boardies

1. plural of boardie
2. (Australia, New Zealand) Boardshorts.
   • 2010, Shannon Meadows, Road Wench - It's A Tour, Not A Holiday, unnumbered page,

     Sadly he was later parted from his beloved leopard print boardies when he left them drying on his tent in Rome, and a bypasser took off with them. More sadly that meant that someone else out there also thought that leopard print boardies were a ‘must have’ fashion item.

   • 2010, Matt Preston, A Pilgrimage to El Bulli, in Don George, Janet Austin (editors), A Moveable Feast, Lonely Planet, page 121,

     Every so often families in bikinis, boardies and sarongs traipse past on their way back from the beach and look in.

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English

Etymology

swim +? suit

Pronunciation

Noun

swimsuit (plural swimsuits)

1. A garment worn for swimming.

2. A tight-fitting one-piece garment worn by women and girls.

Synonyms

• bathers (Australia)
• bathing suit
• budgie smugglers (Australia, slang)
• cossie (Australia)
• dookie (Scotland)
• swimmers (Australia)
• swimming costume
• swimming trunks/swim trunks (the male bottom that resembles shorts)
• togs (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand)

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