Meaning of underthigh | Babel Free

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.”

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