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joggers, [24] pants Long leg bottoms trousers, [25] pants [26] (Northern England only) [27] pants [26] garment worn over genitals as underwear - gender specific term (women) knickers [28] panties [29] Garment worn over genitals as underwear - gender neutral term pants, [26] underwear, underpants [30] underwear, underpants [30] Garment worn ...
soft bread roll or a sandwich made from it (this itself is a regional usage in the UK rather than a universal one); in plural, breasts (vulgar slang e.g. "get your baps out, love"); a person's head (Northern Ireland). [21] barmaid *, barman a woman or man who serves drinks in a bar.
Plural number is often said to mean more than one, [24] but, in fact, it restricts the denotation of the noun to the set of non-singularities. That is, in English, plural nouns are appropriate for quantities denoted by all the real numbers, including 0 and other quantities smaller than 1, except exactly ±1.
If the latter meaning is intended, the word (though singular in form) may be treated as if it were a plural, in that it may take a plural verb and be replaced with a plural pronoun: (in British English) the government are considering their position (alternatively the government is considering its position).
Clothing terminology comprises the names of individual garments and classes of garments, as well as the specialized vocabularies of the trades that have designed, manufactured, marketed and sold clothing over hundreds of years.
Slang for police in Maharashtra, literally means paternal uncle. [39] Khatmal Slang for police in Hyderabad, India which literally means bed bugs in Indian languages. [39] Maatia kukura Meaning khaki dog in English, is a derogatory word for police in Odisha due to their khaki uniforms and rowdy behaviour. Kuka Bulgarian slang for a police ...
The term nepotism, meaning familial loyalty, is derived from this Latin term. [3] Niece entered Middle English from the Old French word nece , which also derives from Latin nepotem . [ 4 ] The word nibling , derived from sibling , is a neologism suggested by Samuel Martin in 1951 as a cover term for "nephew or niece"; it is not common outside ...
A plurale tantum (Latin for 'plural only'; pl. pluralia tantum) is a noun that appears only in the plural form and does not have a singular variant for referring to a single object. In a less strict usage of the term, it can also refer to nouns whose singular form is rarely used. 'Putting on pants' is correct, but 'putting on a pant' may sound odd.