"dungarees"

[Alice Faber]

Chris Waigl wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Feb 2009 00:05:29 -0500, Alice Faber <faber at HASKINS.YALE.EDU>
> wrote:
>
>> Mark Mandel wrote:
>>> Good heavens! AFAIR I've always known the word "dungarees", possibly
>> before
>>> I knew them as jeans. (Grew up in the 50s in the NYC suburbs.)
>>>
>> Likewise. Even though my parents probably would have called them "blue
>> jeans" at the time (not just "jeans"), I do remember thinking of
>> "dungarees" as a more old-fashioned term than "jeans".
>
> For completion's sake, do you use "dungarees" also for this garment
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/xx-tweety-bird-xx/2969129824/ (independently
> of material), or do you call it "overalls", or something entirely
> different?

Those are "overalls", for sure, though I have a niggling recollection of
some other name for the adult version ("farmer Johns"??).

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