underpants

English

Underpants (boxer shorts)

Underpants (boxer briefs)

Underpants (men’s briefs)

Etymology

From under- +‎ pants.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʌndə(ɹ)ˌpænts/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

underpants pl (plural only, attributive underpant)

1. underwear covering the genitalia and often buttocks, usually going no higher than the navel.
   • 1994, Marketing in Europe, Issues 380-385, page 77:

     The Italian fashion of wearing red underpants on December 31 is becoming popular, reputedly to guarantee luck for the new year.

   • 1999, Thomas Harris, Hannibal, page 19:

     She takes off her fatigue pants and throws them in the washer and the surgical greens and her bloodstained bra and turns on the machine. She is wearing socks and underpants and a .38 Special with a shrouded hammer in an ankle holster.

   • 2011, Les Roberts, The Cleveland Creep: A Milan Jacovich Mystery, page 87:

     He wore khakis slung so low that five inches of his underpants showed—dark blue boxers with big white polka dots.

Usage notes

Despite being a single item of clothing, underpants—like pants, trousers, shorts, &c.—are considered to come in "pairs" and are counted using the phrase "pair(s) of".

Synonyms

• bloomers, (slang, New Zealand) gruds, panties, (UK) pants, (slang, UK) shreddies, (UK, Australia) smalls, undertrousers, (slang) undies, kegs, knickers, drawers

Hyponyms

• boxer shorts, briefs, hipsters, knickers, long johns, thong, (slang) tighty whities, midway briefs, bikini briefs, boxers, boxer briefs, trunk briefs, gitch, trunks, Y-fronts, (slang, Australia) jocks, (slang) butt-huggers

Derived terms

• underpants gnome

 

Translations

type of underwear

• Albanian: brekë (sq) f pl
• Arabic: سِرْوَال m (sirwāl)
• Armenian: վարտիք (hy) (vartikʻ), կիսավարտիք (hy) (kisavartikʻ)
• Assamese: জাঙীয়া (zaṅia)
• Azerbaijani: alt paltarı, tuman
• Basque: prakak, galtzak
• Belarusian: трусы́ m pl (trusý), ма́йткі pl (májtki)
• Bulgarian: га́щи (bg) pl (gášti)
• Burmese: အတွင်းခံ (my) (a.twang:hkam)
• Catalan: calçotets (ca) m pl, (Balears) calçons blancs (ca) m pl (for men), bragues (ca) f pl (for women)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 底褲／底裤 (dai² fu³)

  Hokkien: 內褲／内裤 (zh-min-nan) (lāi-khò͘)

  Mandarin: 內褲／内裤 (zh) (nèikù)

• Crimean Tatar: ştan
• Czech: spodky pl, kalhotky (cs) pl, slipy (cs) pl
• Danish: underbukser (da) c pl
• Esperanto: kalsono
• Estonian: aluspüksid (et)
• Finnish: alushousut (fi), pikkuhousut (fi), kalsarit (fi), alkkarit (fi)
• French: caleçon (fr) m (Europe), calcif (fr) m (Europe, slang), bobettes (fr) f pl (Quebec)
• Galician: cirolas f pl, cirigolas f pl, calzón (gl) m, braga (gl) f (for women)
• Georgian: საცვალი (sacvali), ტრუსიკი (ṭrusiḳi) (colloquial)
• German: Unterhose (de) f, Schlüpfer (de) m (for women), Höschen (de) n
• Greek: σώβρακο (el) n (sóvrako) (male), κιλότα (el) f (kilóta) (female)
• Gujarati: ચડ્ડી (gu) (caḍḍī)
• Hebrew: תַחתוֹנִים (he) m pl (takhtonim)
• Hindi: चड्डी (hi) f (caḍḍī), कच्छा (hi) m (kacchā), कच्छ (hi) m (kacch), जाँघिया (hi) m (jāṅghiyā), जांघिया (jāṅghiyā)
• Hungarian: alsónadrág (hu)
• Hunsrik: Unnerhoss f
• Icelandic: nærbuxur (is) f pl
• Ido: kalsono (io)
• Indonesian: celana dalam (id), (informal) cawat (id)
• Ingrian: aluskaatiat
• Irish: fobhríste m
• Italian: mutande (it) f pl
• Japanese: パンツ (ja) (pantsu), ズボン下 (ズボンした, zubonshita)
• Kazakh: шолақ дамбал (şolaq dambal)
• Khmer: ខោទ្រនាប់ (khao trɔnŏəp)
• Korean: 팬티 (ko) (paenti)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: دەرپێ (derpê)

  Northern Kurdish: tebanîk (ku), derpî (ku), derpê (ku)

• Kyrgyz: трусик (trusik)
• Lao: ເສື້ອຊ້ອນໃນ (sư̄a sǭn nai)
• Latvian: apakšbikses f pl
• Lithuanian: apatiniai m pl
• Macedonian: гаќи f pl (gaḱi)
• Malay: seluar dalam (ms)
• Manx: fo-hroosyn m pl, fo-vreeçhyn m pl
• Maori: toroiho, tarau roto
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: дотуур өмд (dotuur ömd)

• Norman: drâses f pl
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: underbukse m or f, underbukser pl

• Old English: brēċ f pl
• Pashto: سلتراج (ps) m (soltrāj)
• Persian: زیرشلواری (fa) (zir-šalvâri), زیرتنبانی (zir-tonbâni) (Dari), سلتراج (selterâj)
• Polish: majtki (pl) pl, slipy (pl) pl, gacie (pl) f pl (colloquial), gatki (pl) f pl
• Portuguese: cuecas (pt)
• Punjabi: ਕੱਛਾ m (kacchā)
• Romanian: chiloți (ro) m pl
• Russian: трусы́ (ru) m pl (trusý), тру́сики (ru) m pl (trúsiki), кальсо́ны (ru) f pl (kalʹsóny) (long johns)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: га̏ће f pl

  Roman: gȁće f pl

• Slovak: spodky pl, nohavičky pl
• Slovene: spodnje hláče (sl) f pl
• Spanish: calzoncillos (es) m pl, (Paraguay) anatómicos (es) m pl, fundillos (es) m pl (Chile, dated - current usage : calzoncillos), (Spain, colloquial) gayumbos (es) m pl, (Venezuela) interiores m pl, (Colombia) pantaloncillos m pl, trusa f (Mexico) (Note : 'Calzones' in Mexico is applied to both sexes : see 'Underwear')
• Swahili: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: underbyxa (sv) c, kalsonger (sv) c pl (for men), trosor (sv) c pl (for women)
• Tagalog: karsonsilyo
• Tajik: труси (trusi)
• Thai: กางเกงใน (th) (gaang-geeng-nai)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: iç çamaşırı (tr), don (tr)
• Ukrainian: труси́ m pl (trusý)
• Urdu: جان٘گھیا m (jānghiyā)
• Uyghur: كالتە ئىشتان (kalte ishtan)
• Uzbek: trusik, kalta ishton
• Vietnamese: quần đùi (vi), quần xà lỏn (vi), quần lót (vi)
• Volapük: niblit (vo), sleafablit
• Welsh: trons m
• White Hmong: please add this translation if you can
• Yakut: туруусук (turuusuk)
• Yiddish: גאַטקעס (gatkes)
• Zhuang: vaqdinj, vaqdonh