Definition of Panty

1. Noun. Short underpants for women or children (usually used in the plural).

Exact synonyms: Pantie, Scanty, Step-in
Generic synonyms: Underpants
Language type: Plural, Plural Form

Definition of Panty

1. Noun. (obsolete in the plural) Short trousers for men, or more usually boys. (defdate from the 19th c.) ¹

2. Noun. (usually in the plural or in compounds) An article of clothing worn as underpants by women. (defdate from the 20th c.) ¹

3. Noun. (informal roller derby) A helmet cover. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Panty

1. pantie [n PANTIES] - See also: pantie

Lexicographical Neighbors of Panty

pantrylike
pantryman
pantrymen
pants presser
pants suit
pantsed
pantses
pantsing
pantsless
pantsuit
pantsuited
pantsuits
pantun
pantuns
panty (current term)
panty girdle
panty hose
panty raid
panty raids
pantyhose
pantyhosed
pantyhoses
pantyless
pantyliners
pantywaist
pantywaists
panucho
panuchos

Literary usage of Panty

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Catalogue of printed literature in the Welsh department by John Ballinger, James Ifano Jones (1898)
"[With translations of W.Williams's (panty- celyn) Hymns]. Ruthin, L. Jones, 1879. 96 pp. w з 847 Jones (H. Ivor, of Portmadoc). ..."

2. The Complete Works and Life of Laurence Sterne by Laurence Sterne, Wilbur Lucius Cross, Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald (1904)
"hood under the style and title of ' panty,' which was complimentary to his powers of humour, but scarcely to his cloth—'panty' being a familiar contraction ..."

3. History: Fiction of Science? by Anatoly T. Fomenko (2005)
"The defeat of the panty sent by Joshua to ... of the panty: “And the men of Ai smote of them about ..."

4. Shifting Sands by Will Kester (2007)
""It is as much a part of me as your.. .your.. .uh, panty hose are for you." "I don't wear panty hose," Blair said. He thought all American women wore panty ..."

5. Baptist Missionary Magazine by Massachusetts Baptist Convention, American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (1856)
"In the month of March, Mr. Kincaid with Dr. Dawson, Ko En, Moung panty and Moung Yang- en, made a trip to Amarapura, and were absent about a month. ..."

6. Overland to China by Archibald Ross Colquhoun (1900)
"The remedy is used in the form of a glue, which is extracted by boiling the " panty." According to some authorities, a pair of young, tender, and vascular ..."

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