different between lungies vs longies

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lungies

long +? -ie +? -s

longies pl (plural only)

(informal) knitted trousers for a baby or child
- 1974, Elizabeth Zimmermann, Knitter's Almanac (page 26)
  For longies, therefore, I cast on sufficiently for the waist, and work a piece of ribbing.
(informal, dated) Full-length trousers for a young boy (as distinguished from knickerbockers).
- 1932, Boys' Life (volume 22, number 5, May 1932, page 29)
  And now the same Talon fastener that the air mail pilots use in their flying suits is on your longies and knickers!
(informal) long underwear.

longies

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