Pïle of Pants.

Lynne Murphy lynneguist at HOTMAIL.COM
Tue Dec 19 13:38:09 UTC 2000


>From: "Douglas G. Wilson" <douglas at NB.NET>
>The Cassell slang dic. says "pants" < earlier "knickers", both meaning
>"rubbish" (i.e., in this context, "shit"). "Knickers" in this sense is IMHO
>probably euphemism for "knackers" = "testicles".


Coming in on this late--I'm traveling the US now.  "Pants" is equivalent to
"underpants" in the UK.

Lynne Murphy
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