different between shorts vs knicker

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???(?)ts/
• Rhymes: -??(?)ts

Noun

shorts

1. plural of short

Noun

shorts pl (plural only)

1. pants or trousers worn for sports or in warmer weather that do not go lower than the knees.

   Jessica hated covering her legs, so she usually wore shorts.

2. (dated) underwear bottoms.

   After a scare like that, you might need to change your shorts.

3. (uncountable) Remnants, clippings, trimmings of production processes.
4. The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran; pollard.
5. Short, inferior hemp.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

shorts

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of short

Anagrams

• Stohrs, horsts

French

Noun

shorts m

1. plural of short

   Est-ce qu'il vous reste des shorts comme celui-ci en stock ?

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English shorts

Noun

shorts m (definite singular shortsen, indefinite plural shorts or shortser, definite plural shortsene)

1. shorts (trousers with short legs, no longer than to the knees).

Synonyms

• kortbukse

References

• “shorts” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English shorts

Noun

shorts m (definite singular shortsen, indefinite plural shorts or shortsar, definite plural shortsane)

1. shorts (as above)

Synonyms

• kortbukse

References

• “shorts” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Noun

shorts m pl (plural only)

1. Alternative form of short

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??o?ds/, [??o?ð?s]

Noun

shorts m pl (plural only)

1. shorts
2. plural of short

Swedish

Etymology

From English shorts

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o??s/, (rare) /?o??s/

Noun

shorts pl

1. trousers with short legs. Does generally not reach to the knees.

Declension

English

Etymology 1

Noun

knicker (uncountable)

1. (used attributively as a modifier) Of or relating to knickers.

   knicker elastic, knicker drawer, knicker thief

   A knicker nicker nicked a pair of knickers off the clothesline.

2. knickerbockers
   • 1983, David Lanier Lewis, Laurence Goldstein, The Automobile and American Culture (page 58)

     Country club men had reinstated the knicker, adding four inches in length […]

   • 1925, The Clothier and Furnisher (volume 106, page 79)

     A sock worn in the regulation fashion, under the knicker, looks neatest and permits the proper full flare of the knicker.

Etymology 2

From Dutch knikker.

Noun

knicker (plural knickers)

1. (dated, dialect, Britain, US) A small ball of clay, baked hard and oiled, used as a marble in games.

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /(k)ni.kœ?/
• Rhymes: -œ?

Noun

knicker m (plural knickers)

1. Alternative form of knickers

Further reading

• “knicker” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).