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名詞

BVDs pl (plural only)

1. (informal, initialism) Underpants; usually, men's underpants.
   • 1953, Richard Bissell, “7½ Cents”, in Atlantic, Little, Brown, page 53:

     The dealers apparently got a big inventory and since the war all nobody seems to be buying pajamas. Learned to sleep in their ‘BVDs’ during the war years in the armed services all these young men did.

   • 1953 September 18, Saul Bellow, chapter V, in The Adventures of Augie March […], New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →OCLC, pages 64–65:

     Thus, the light switched on, there was Einhorn in his BVDs, wasted arms freckled, grizzled hair afly from his face that was inclined to flatness, the shrewd curved nose and clipped mustache.

   • 1970, John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse, New York, published 2007, page 97:

     We frolicked like dolphins – Graeme and I in shorts and Bob in his B.V.D.'s – and then stretched out on the ancient waveworn shingle to let the sinking sun dry and warm us.

使用する際の注意点

• To make clear the exact quantity being discussed may require the use of pair of BVDs or (however many) pairs of BVDs.

派生語

派生した語

• → Spanish: bividí

参考

Further reading

• BVD on Wikipedia.Wikipedia