shreddies

Definition

Underwear.

Etymology

From shreddy (“consisting of shreds”) + -ies (plural suffix for nouns ending in -y).

Example Sentences

• "1995, Joe Simpson, This Game of Ghosts, The Mountaineers Books, →ISBN, As Mark came out of the bathroom, I remembered my underpants. ¶ ‘Hey Mark, have you got my shreddies?’"
• "2001, Irvine Welsh, Glue, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 40, As ah stand up n pill oan ma shreddies, then ma jeans in T-shirt, she's staring oaf intae space, then wrappin her clathes roond her."
• "2004, Harry Foxley, Marking Time: A Soldier's Story, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 165, So adept did I become, in fact, that I could shower, shave and wash out socks and shreddies on as little as three penn’orth remaining on the meter (which had not yet been decimalized)."