knickerbocker

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See also: knickerbockers, Knickerbocker, and Knickerbockers

English

Etymology

See knickerbockers.

Noun

knickerbocker (uncountable)

  1. (archaic, used attributively as a modifier) Of or relating to knickerbockers.
    • 1892, The Twentieth Century:
      ...with a rudimentary beard to set it off, a dirty shirt, a rifle, a coat over my arm, and half a grouse in my knickerbocker pocket.
    • 1905, Daniel Leavens Cady, Stray Breaths of North East Song:
      His knickerbocker days are gone,
      His last long stockings laid away:
      My baby has his trousers on, —
      My boy becomes a man to-day.
  2. A linsey-woolsey fabric with a rough knotted surface on the right side, formerly used for women's dresses.

Derived terms

French

Pronunciation

Noun

knickerbocker m (plural knickerbockers)

  1. Alternative form of knickerbockers
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