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English
Etymology
One of a set of words for trousers and undergarments suggesting that they cannot be mentioned. Compare inexpressibles, unmentionables, unwhisperables.
Noun
unutterables pl (plural only)
- (slang) Trousers.
1961, Thomas Cather, Thomas Yoseloff, Voyage to America: The Journals of Thomas Cather, page 156:[…] not liking to sit in wet trousers took them off and hung them up before the fire to dry. He presented a very picturesque appearance wanting his unutterables.
Noun
unutterables
- plural of unutterable
References
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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