rammiesn.

Brit.

/ˈramɪz/, U.S.

/ˈræmiz/, Australian English

/ˈræmiz/, South African English

/ˈræmiz/

Forms: 1900s– ramese (rare), 1900s– rammies.

Origin: Apparently a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: English *roundmies.

Etymology: Apparently originally representing a colloquial pronunciation of *roundmies, shortened < round-me-houses at round-the-houses n. and adj. α. forms; compare rounds n. and see quot. 1906.

Originally Australian. Now chiefly South African slang.

With plural agreement. Trousers.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [noun] > trousers

trouse1678

trousers1681

kicks1699

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brogues1748

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unmentionable1791

et cetera1794

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ineffables1823

indispensablesa1828

unimaginable1833

pantaloon1834

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never-mention-'ems1836

unwhisperable1837

results1839

sit-down-upons1839

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unmentionabilities1840

innominablea1843

unutterables1843

trews1847

round-the-houses1857

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long1898

kecks1900

rammies1906

trou1911

pants1970

1905 in J. Meredith Learn to talk Old Jack Lang (1984) 12 I threw off my barrel of fat, dicky dirt, rammy rousers.]

1906 Bulletin (Sydney) 20 Dec. 15/3 Philological research has..enabled me to discover how a pair of pants was transmogrified into rammies. Rhyming slang transmuted trousers..into ‘round my houses’—cockney pronunciation, ‘rahand me 'ouses’.

1919 W. H. Downing Digger Dial. 41 Rammies, breeches.

1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 26 Apr. 20/1 Old Bill watched the youngest jackeroo disrobing... ‘If I was you, young feller,’ he said, ‘I'd leave them rammies on.’

1949 H. C. Bosman Cold Stone Jug 35 Snowy Fisher comes out of the window, all right, with half his rammies burnt off him.

1961 Personality (Durban) 16 May 27 Narrow trousers have ceased to be ‘drain-pipes’ and are now identified..as ‘rammies’.

1970 in Dict. S. Afr. Eng. on Hist. Princ. (1996) (at cited word) Have you sent my rammies to the cleaners?

1982 Bulletin (Sydney) 25 May 50/2 I well remember my father describing trousers as rammies.

2013 @jamienewman12 8 June in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Josh got chinned by a girl and went for piss without dropping his rammies #badmove.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	rammies
释义	rammiesn. Brit. /ˈramɪz/, U.S. /ˈræmiz/, Australian English /ˈræmiz/, South African English /ˈræmiz/ Forms: 1900s– ramese (rare), 1900s– rammies. Origin: Apparently a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: English roundmies. Etymology: Apparently originally representing a colloquial pronunciation of roundmies, shortened < round-me-houses at round-the-houses n. and adj. α. forms; compare rounds n. and see quot. 1906. Originally Australian. Now chiefly South African slang. With plural agreement. Trousers. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [noun] > trousers trouse1678 trousers1681 kicks1699 trousiesa1713 brogues1748 inexpressibles1790 unmentionable1791 et cetera1794 indescribable1794 kickseys1819 ineffables1823 indispensablesa1828 unimaginable1833 pantaloon1834 pants1835 inexplicables1836 never-mention-'ems1836 unwhisperable1837 results1839 sit-down-upons1839 sit-upons1839 unmentionabilities1840 innominablea1843 unutterables1843 trews1847 round-the-houses1857 unprintable1860 stovepipe1863 sit-in-ems1873 reach-me-downs1877 strides1889 rounds1893 long1898 kecks1900 rammies1906 trou1911 pants1970 1905 in J. Meredith Learn to talk Old Jack Lang (1984) 12 I threw off my barrel of fat, dicky dirt, rammy rousers.] 1906 Bulletin (Sydney) 20 Dec. 15/3 Philological research has..enabled me to discover how a pair of pants was transmogrified into rammies. Rhyming slang transmuted trousers..into ‘round my houses’—cockney pronunciation, ‘rahand me 'ouses’. 1919 W. H. Downing Digger Dial. 41 Rammies, breeches. 1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 26 Apr. 20/1 Old Bill watched the youngest jackeroo disrobing... ‘If I was you, young feller,’ he said, ‘I'd leave them rammies on.’ 1949 H. C. Bosman Cold Stone Jug 35 Snowy Fisher comes out of the window, all right, with half his rammies burnt off him. 1961 Personality (Durban) 16 May 27 Narrow trousers have ceased to be ‘drain-pipes’ and are now identified..as ‘rammies’. 1970 in Dict. S. Afr. Eng. on Hist. Princ. (1996) (at cited word) Have you sent my rammies to the cleaners? 1982 Bulletin (Sydney) 25 May 50/2 I well remember my father describing trousers as rammies. 2013 @jamienewman12 8 June in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Josh got chinned by a girl and went for piss without dropping his rammies #badmove. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1906
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