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Meaning of underthigh | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. The back of a person's thigh.
  2. The back upper portion of a pantleg or trouser leg.

Examples

“1883, Albert Ellery Berg (ed.), The Universal Self-Instructor, New York: Thomas Kelly, “Out-Door Exercises,” p. 350, You may walk so as to use neither calf, under-thigh, nor hip to any appreciable extent; but it is hard work to run in any way so as not to develop all three […]”
““She is female!” he bellows, stepping over my head in a fleeting perspective of underthighs and wobbling genitals.”
“Dalziel […] raised his left leg to scratch his under thigh.”
“His underthighs itched against the wicker seat of his chair.”
“[…] you will, I hope, never omit taking the hip-measure, which will produce a proportionate under-thigh: you will find at all times the under-sides, from the crutch to the hip, longer than the top sides.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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