Meaning
The clothes you wear next to your skin, under your other clothes.
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Word origin
A compound of under and wear: the clothes you wear under everything else.
- Origin
- English
- Root
- under + wear
- English cognates
- wear
Examples
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Underwear is uncountable: some underwear, never an underwear.
drawer.
Underwear is washed and kept like all other clothes.
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"In your underwear" means wearing nothing over it.
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Start your free week (no card)This word is taught in chapter 28, lesson 6: underwear, wednesday, inspire and 7 more words.