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# unmentionables

«unmentionables» in Mova's school dictionary: **underwear: pants, knickers, bras** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (plural only, «unmentionables»; adjective «unmentionable»)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (euphemism, humorous) underwear: pants, knickers, bras. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unmentionables/#m1)

2) (adjective, «unmentionable») too shocking or embarrassing to talk about. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unmentionables/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

An old-fashioned, coy and now jokey word for underwear, used in all English-speaking countries; it plays on the idea that underwear should not be mentioned. The adjective is used for embarrassing subjects.

### examples

- (joke) Don't hang your unmentionables on the front fence! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unmentionables/#x1)
- (shop) Unmentionables are on the second floor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unmentionables/#x2)
- (holiday) I packed everything except my unmentionables. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unmentionables/#x3)
- (chat) the washing machine ate my unmentionables [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unmentionables/#x4)
- (old book) Ladies' unmentionables were never shown in shop windows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unmentionables/#x5)
- (adjective) Her cooking was unmentionable — truly awful! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unmentionables/#x6)

### note

Trap: only plural as a noun. A joke word — in a shop, say «underwear». The adjective «unmentionable» = too bad to talk about.

### In the corpora

- ["Unmentionables" is a humorous word for underwear.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/5-drink-mind-and-body/22/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «unmentionables» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unmentionables/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.