See Also: knickerbockers(dictionary)

blaeberry (iou) and knickerbockers (oh)


blaeberry (iou)



blaeberry noun. Scot. & north. ME.
[from BLAE adjective + BERRY noun1.]
= BILBERRY.

knickerbockers (oh)



[Date: 1800-1900; Origin: Diedrich Knickerbocker, name invented by Washington Irving for the supposed writer of his History of New York (1809), who is shown in the book wearing such pants]
short loose trousers that fit tightly at your knees, worn especially in the past