shreddies
shreddies · shreddieses
UnderwearUnderwear.
Meaning
1 senses(UK, plural, plural only, slang)Underwear.
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.
Origin
From shreddy (“consisting of shreds”) + -ies (plural suffix for nouns ending in -y).From shreddy (“consisting of shreds”) + -ies (plural suffix for nouns ending in -y).
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