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unmentionable(dictionary)

unmentionable (iou)



unmentionable noun & adjective. E19.
[from UN-1 + MENTIONABLE.]
A. noun.
In pl. Trousers (arch. colloq.); (chiefly joc.) underwear, esp. women's. E19.
S. C. Hall The priest's unmentionables drying on a hedge.
A person who or thing which cannot or should not be mentioned. Usu. in pl. E20.
b. adjective. That cannot or should not be mentioned. M19.
J. D. Sutherland Sexuality and its aura of guilt and sin were almost unmentionable.
unmentiona'bility noun (a) arch. in pl., trousers, underpants; (b) the fact of being unmentionable: M19.
unmentionableness noun L19.
unmentionably adverb L19.