In the UK "Pants" typically refers to underwear. (Where it is also a slang term for "bad". As in "That's pants".) In other parts of the world, notably the USA, "pants" refers to trousers.
/pænts/ IPA guide. In the UK, pants are undergarments or underwear. If you're from the U.S. or Canada, pants are the clothes you wear over your underwear, pulling them on one long leg at a time.
The word 'pants' comes to us from an Anglicization of the character's name, "Pantaloon." The word comes from the name of a stock figure in the commedia dell'arte, a form of Italian comic theater popular throughout Europe from about the 16th to the mid-18th century.
The British English term, short trousers, is used, only for shorts that are a short version of ordinary trousers (i.e., pants or slacks in American English).
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Why do Brits say pants?
Since pantaloons were associated with a slimmer fit, when wider trousers came into fashion in England, 'pants' came to refer to the more snug garments worn underneath trousers. Hence pants meaning 'underpants'.
It becomes clear that pants is a strictly northern term when one looks at the variation in the North West in particular, where 49% of speakers use pants. In the South of England, this figure drops to a strikingly low 3%.
noun. Also called Indian corn; especially technical and British, maize . a tall cereal plant, Zea mays, cultivated in many varieties, having a jointed, solid stem and bearing the grain, seeds, or kernels on large ears.
The term is typically applied to pants like jeans, khakis, and more formal pants in contrast to the kinds of pants informally called soft pants—those made with soft, stretchable fabrics, especially sweatpants and other forms of loungewear and athleisure pants.
said to mean that something happens that someone is not prepared for and that reveals an embarrassing or shocking fact about them. In British English, you can also say that someone is caught with their trousers down.
Trousers (Br) and Pants (Am) describe a piece of clothing that you wear on your legs from the waist to the feet. However, the word `Pants` in British English means underpants in American English (the item of clothing you wear under your trousers). Be careful when saying `I like your pants` when in Britain!
A vest is an upper-body garment, though the type of clothing depends on the dialect of English. In American English, a vest is what the British call a waistcoat, while in British and Indian English, it is what Americans call an undershirt or tank top.
In the UK pants means underwear. Colloquially if we say something is "Pants" we mean it's rubbish or really bad/not good (bit with vaguely humorous undertones). Therefore "Bag of Pants" would mean something especially rubbish or sub-par.
In the UK jeans are worn by everyone – young and old alike – and unless you are visiting more upscale restaurants they are perfectly acceptable to wear everywhere.
A bra, short for brassiere or brassière (US: /brəˈzɪər/, UK: /ˈbræsɪər/ or /ˈbræzɪər/; French: [bʁasjɛʁ]), is a form-fitting undergarment that is primarily used to support and cover a woman's breasts.
Most UK schools allow girls to wear trousers, but many girls still wear skirts in primary and secondary schools, even where the choice of trousers is given. In the late 20th and early 21st century, many schools began changing their uniform rules to allow trousers for girls amidst opposition to skirts-only policies.
According to some, the phrase “pair of pants” harkens back to the days when what constituted pants—or pantaloons, as they were originally known—consisted of two separate items, one for each leg. They were put on one at a time and then secured around the waist.
Traditionally much shorter than many styles of shorts on the market for men, the hoochie daddy short exposes a lot (and let us stress), a lot of thigh. But now you're not skipping leg days, it's about time you give the quads some lovin'.
