y-frontsとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Genericized trademark, from the inverted Y-shaped seams at the front.

名詞

Y-fronts pl (plural only)

1. (plural only, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, informal) Briefs that have a fly as part of an inverted Y formed by the seams.
   • 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 6:

     Setting a spatted foot on the bench that ran down the middle of the changing-room with elegant distain, Adrian began to flip through a pile of Y-fronts and rugger shorts with his cane.

   • 2013, Mike Peyton, Mike Peyton’s Floating Assets, page 4:

     I did the latter, so in writing this I have put it on record that I am one of the few men who has spent Christmas Eve running across a Kentish marsh in his Y-fronts with two horses trotting after him in close company.

   • 2026 August 29, Sarah Hemming, “Why Tilda Swinton is dusting off her Y-fronts”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 12:

     Even dressed in lurid red-and-white Y-fronts, a string vest and dockers' boots, [Tilda] Swinton is a magnetic presence.

同意語

• See Thesaurus:underwear

参考

• jocks
• bibidees
• bikini briefs