英和和英

名詞

BVDs (always plural)

1. (informal, initialism) Men's underwear.

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".

名詞

BVDs pl (複数形 only)

1. (informal, initialism) 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, Saul Bellow, chapter 5, in The Adventures of Augie March, New York: 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

• bibidees
• bebadees

派生した語

• → Spanish: bividí

参考

• jockey shorts
• Speedo
• skivvies

Further reading

• BVD on Wikipedia.