different between pants vs pacts
pants
English
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /pænts/
- Rhymes: -ænts
Etymology 1
Shortened from pantaloons (“trousers”).
Noun
pants pl (plural only)
- (chiefly Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Cumbria, Lancashire, Liverpudlian, Manchester) An outer garment that covers the body from the waist downwards, covering each leg separately, usually as far as the ankles; trousers. [from 19th c.]
- 1933, Kenneth Roberts, Rabble in Arms, 1996, page 220:
- “But they cover the legs,” Joseph explained. “That is the only reason my people wear pants: to cover the legs in the winter, or when traveling through rough country, full of thorns. In warm weather, or in open country, pants are unnecessary, uncomfortable, and foolish.”
- 1989, Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One, Penguin (2006), page 427:
- Then he gave me a last desperate push and I tripped over the shorts caught around my ankles and fell down. I tried to pull my pants up with my boxing gloves but without success. […] In those days nobody wore underpants and I was bare-arsed and fancy free in front of everyone.
- 2010, Ronald C. Eng (editor), Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills, 8th Edition, The Mountaineers Books, US, page 24:
- Look for pants with reinforced seats and knees and full-length side zippers that make it possible to put the pants on while you are wearing boots, crampons, skis, or snowshoes.
- 2005, Octavia E. Butler, Fledgling, page 12:
- I rolled up the legs of the pants, then I went back into the trees.
- 1933, Kenneth Roberts, Rabble in Arms, 1996, page 220:
- (chiefly Britain) An undergarment that covers the genitals and often the buttocks and the neighbouring parts of the body; underpants. [from 19th c.]
- 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, p. 39:
- I decided to pass up her underclothes, not from feelings of delicacy, but because I couldn't see myself putting her pants on and snapping her brassière.
- 1976, Nathan H. Azrin, Richard M. Foxx, Toilet Training in Less Than a Day, 1988, page 127:
- Big girls get candy for dry pants.
- 1984, Martin Amis, Money, Vintage (2005), page 183:
- As she bent over the intercom the little skirt went peek-a-boo and you could see white pants cupping her buttocks like a bra.
- 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, p. 39:
- (Britain, slang) Rubbish; something worthless.
- You're talking pants!
- The film was a load [or pile] of pants.
Synonyms
- (outer garment): breeks, britches, hosen, slacks, strides, trousers
- (undergarment): see Thesaurus:underwear
Hyponyms
- (outer garment that covers the body from the waist downwards): corduroys/cords, jeans
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ??? (pantsu)
- ? Chinese: ?? (pàngcì)
Translations
Adjective
pants (comparative more pants, superlative most pants)
- (Britain, slang) Of inferior quality, rubbish.
- Your mobile is pants — why don’t you get one like mine?
Translations
Etymology 2
Verb
pants (third-person singular simple present pantses, present participle pantsing, simple past and past participle pantsed)
- To pull someone’s pants down; to forcibly remove someone’s pants.
- 1948, University of California, Carolina Quarterly, page 47:
- Keith Gerber has been pantsed twice already this summer by Lannie and Cling, and so his face is more resolved, the fear tempered by the fact that he understands these things to be inevitable.
- 1980, William Hogan, The Quartzsite Trip, Atheneum, page 242:
- [T]he other boys, Stretch Latham and Rod Becker mainly, pantsed him, got his jockey shorts away and threw them onto Hubcap Willie’s roof.
- 1993, Harold Augenbraum, Ilan Stavans, Growing Up Latino: Memoirs and Stories, page 174:
- Richard did not stand too close to him, because he was always trying to pants him, and he would have died of shame if he did it tonight, because he knew his BVDs were dirty at the trap door.
- 1948, University of California, Carolina Quarterly, page 47:
Synonyms
- (pull someone’s pants down): depants, de-pants, debags, (British) keg, (Australian) dack
Translations
Etymology 3
Noun
pants
- plural of pant
Etymology 4
Verb
pants
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pant
Further reading
- pants on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- NAPTs, snapt
Latvian
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
Noun
pants m (1st declension)
- verse, stanza (section of poem or song lyric)
- (law) paragraph, article, clause (section of legal document)
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
From English pants.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pants/, [?pãn?t?s]
Noun
pants m pl (plural only)
- pants
Swedish
Noun
pants
- indefinite genitive singular of pant
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pacts
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pækts/
Noun
pacts
- plural of pact
Verb
pacts
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pact
Anagrams
- Capts, PCAST, PCATs, TCAPs, capts
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