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knickerbockered en · ADJ

Etymology

From knickerbocker + -ed.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Dressed in knickerbockers.
    • I stood for a moment struck by the grotesque effect of his soaring figure—his dirty cricket cap, and spiky hair, his little round body, his arms and his knickerbockered legs tucked up tightly—against the weird spaciousness of the lunar scene. 1900 December – 1901 August, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “chapter 9”, in The First Men in the Moon, London: George Newnes, […], published 1901, →OCLC: