Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
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From draw (“to pull”), hence that which is pulled onto the body. Attested from the late 16th century. Compare drawer.
Question. Where did they strike you? Answer. Struck me in the face once, and struck four times across the legs. Question.Was that after you had taken your drawers off, or before? Answer. After I had taken my drawers off.1871 October 21, [US] House of Representatives, quoting John Pool and Mary Neal, “Conditions of affairs in the southern states. Georgia sub-committee”, in Reports of Committees, page 386:
Aside from ridiculing women for their relationships with "O-keys," standing for American and British soldiers, the poem humorously asked them to wash long johns for Polish men because otherwise "UNRA would laugh seeing them wash their drawers" and they would not be clean when they come to make advances.2023, Katarzyna Nowak, Kingdom of Barracks: Polish Displaced Persons in Allied-Occupied Germany and Austria, page 192:
They were armed and I was in my drawers still half asleep.2016, John Avanzato, Claim Denied:
“It’s really aggressive,” Eliahu said of the incident. “While it was happening in real time, I thought it was a set up or a prank. Then it was clear they weren’t working together. I just felt bad. The Naked Cowboy he was just trying to keep his drawers up.”2020 November 12, Tina Moore, quoting Elad Eliahu, “Someone tried to pants Times Square's Naked Cowboy”, in New York Post:
blue drawers · get the drawers · Maggie's drawers · mosquito drawers · bathing drawers · underdrawers · angel-drawers
fr caleçon (long underpants) · pl majtki (long underpants) · bg дълги гащи (long underpants) · nl beenbedekking ((slang) clothing covering on the legs) · ta டிராயர் ((slang) clothing covering on the legs) · te లాగు (long underpants) · eo kalsono (long underpants) · gd drathais ((slang) clothing covering on the legs) · pl kalesony ((slang) clothing covering on the legs) · gd drathais (long underpants) · da underbukser (long underpants) · fr culotte (long underpants) · ja ズロース ((slang) clothing covering on the legs) · mi toroiho (long underpants) · grc ζῶμα (long underpants) · hy անդրավարտիք (long underpants)