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underthigh en · NOUN

Etymology

From under + thigh.

Meanings

1. The back of a person's thigh.
   • 1883, Albert Ellery Berg (ed.), The Universal Self-Instructor, New York: Thomas Kelly, “Out-Door Exercises,” p. 350, You may walk so as to use neither calf, under-thigh, nor hip to any appreciable extent; but it is hard work to run in any way so as not to develop all three […]
   • His underthighs itched against the wicker seat of his chair. 1991, Angela Huth, Invitation to the Married Life, New York: Grove, published 1992, Part 2, p. 249:
   • Dalziel […] raised his left leg to scratch his under thigh. 1987, Reginald Hill, Child’s Play, New York: Macmillan, Third Act, Chapter 6, p. 160:
   • “She is female!” he bellows, stepping over my head in a fleeting perspective of underthighs and wobbling genitals. 1956, John Howard Griffin, chapter 21, in Nuni, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 167:
2. The back upper portion of a pantleg or trouser leg.
   • […] you will, I hope, never omit taking the hip-measure, which will produce a proportionate under-thigh: you will find at all times the under-sides, from the crutch to the hip, longer than the top sides. 1841, Dennis Ellard, A New and Easy Method of the Art of Cutting, London: for the author, page 13:

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