pants
Meanings
- An outer garment that covers the body from the waist downwards, covering each leg separately, usually as far as the ankles; trousers.
- An undergarment that covers the genitals and often the buttocks and the neighbouring parts of the body; underpants.
- Rubbish; something worthless.
- Of inferior quality, rubbish.
- To pull someone’s pants down; to forcibly remove someone’s pants.
- plural of pant
- third-person singular simple present indicative of pant
- plural of Pant
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Etymology
Etymology tree Ancient Greek πᾶς (pâs) Ancient Greek ἔλεος (éleos) Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Ancient Greek -έω (-éō) Ancient Greek ἐλεέω (eleéō) Proto-Indo-European *-mṓ Ancient Greek -μων (-mōn) Ancient Greek ἐλεήμων (eleḗmōn) Ancient Greek Παντελεήμων (Panteleḗmōn)bor. Spanish Pantaleónder. Italian Pantaloneder. French pantalonbor. English pantaloon English pantaloons English pants Shortened from pantaloons (“trousers”): borrowed from French pantalon, itself derived from Italian Pantalone, one of the principal characters found in commedia dell'arte, who wore tight trousers. Doublet of pantsu. The verb is from the noun.