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Etymology
under + thigh
Noun
underthigh (plural underthighs)
- 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
1956, John Howard Griffin, chapter 21, in Nuni, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 167:“She is female!” he bellows, stepping over my head in a fleeting perspective of underthighs and wobbling genitals.
1987, Reginald Hill, Child’s Play, New York: Macmillan, Third Act, Chapter 6, p. 160:Dalziel […] raised his left leg to scratch his under thigh.
1991, Angela Huth, Invitation to the Married Life, New York: Grove, published 1992, Part 2, p. 249:His underthighs itched against the wicker seat of his chair.
- The back upper portion of a pantleg or trouser leg.
1841, Dennis Ellard, A New and Easy Method of the Art of Cutting, London: for the author, page 13:[…] 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.