pants
nomadjectifverbenomverbecourant dans les dialogues
- Royaume-Uni//pænts//
An outer garment that covers the body from the waist downwards, covering each leg separately, usually as far as the ankles; trousers.
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An outer garment that covers the body from the waist downwards, covering each leg separately, usually as far as the ankles; trousers.
“But they cover the legs,” Joseph explained. “That is the only reason my people wear pants: to cover the legs in the winter, or when traveling through rough country, full of thorns. In warm weather, or in open country, pants are unnecessary, uncomfortable, and foolish.”
It's in the evening after dark when the blackleg miner creeps to work. With his moleskin pants and his dirty shirt, there goes the blackleg miner.
Then he gave me a last desperate push and I tripped over the shorts caught around my ankles and fell down. I tried to pull my pants up with my boxing gloves but without success.[…]In those days nobody wore underpants and I was bare-arsed and fancy free in front of everyone.
Look for pants with reinforced seats and knees and full-length side zippers that make it possible to put the pants on while you are wearing boots, crampons, skis, or snowshoes.
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An undergarment that covers the genitals and often the buttocks and the neighbouring parts of the body; underpants.
I decided to pass up her underclothes, not from feelings of delicacy, but because I couldn't see myself putting her pants on and snapping her brassière.
Big girls get candy for dry pants.
As she bent over the intercom the little skirt went peek-a-boo and you could see white pants cupping her buttocks like a bra.
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argotRubbish; something worthless.
You're talking pants!
The film was a load [or pile] of pants.
Étymologie
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-énts Proto-Indo-European *ph₂énts? Proto-Hellenic *pánts 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)der. Italian Pantalonebor. 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.
adjectif
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argotOf inferior quality, rubbish.
Your mobile is pants — why don’t you get one like mine?
'Is that what you're going to do when you graduate?' he asked. 'Be a photographer?' 'I wish, but I'm pants at the technical stuff. ...'
"Lee? How'd you manage to find your way here? You're pants with directions. You always get lost."
verbe
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To pull someone’s pants down; to forcibly remove someone’s pants.
Keith Gerber has been pantsed twice already this summer by Lannie and Cling, and so his face is more resolved, the fear tempered by the fact that he understands these things to be inevitable.
[T]he other boys, Stretch Latham and Rod Becker mainly, pantsed him, got his jockey shorts away and threw them onto Hubcap Willie’s roof.
Richard did not stand too close to him, because he was always trying to pants him, and he would have died of shame if he did it tonight, because he knew his BVDs were dirty at the trap door.
nom
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Aussi une forme de pantplural of pant
verbe
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Aussi une forme de pantthird-person singular simple present indicative of pant
Formes
- comparatif
- more pants
- superlatif
- most pants
- passé
- pantsed
- participe passé
- pantsed
- participe présent
- pantsing
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- pantses
pants · An outer garment that covers the body from the waist downwards, covering each leg separately, usually as far as the ankles; trousers.
pao · A fairy chess piece which moves identically to the xiangqi…Pao · A surname.paolo · An old Italian silver coin.