Noun: shorts
Sample Sentences
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Jessica hated covering her legs, so she usually wore shorts.
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In 1925, boxer shorts were unleashed on the world: loose-fitting underwear for men, featuring an elastic waistband inspired by the shorts worn by boxers. It was underwear for the inner pugilist. [2018 August 9, Alan Burdick, “Science has Resolved the Question of Boxers vs. Briefs”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Nov 2020:]
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After a scare like that, you might need to change your shorts.
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And always, when the food arrives, send something back. It's considered very sophisticated. But make sure you use colorful language. Tell him, "Waiter, this veal tastes like the inside front panel of Ferdinand Magellan's shorts. And I'm referring to the first voyage." [2015, George Carlin, 3 X Carlin: An Orgy of George Including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?:]
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[…]the first remove above bran is shorts ; the next above that is sharps [1847, James Orchard Halliwell, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, volume II, →OCLC, page 822:]
Nouns inflected like shorts
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-der.?
3. Proto-Germanic *skertaną
4. Proto-Germanic *skurtaz
5. Proto-West Germanic *skurt
6. Old English sċort
7. Middle English schort
8. English short
9. Old English -as
10. Middle English -es
11. English -s
12. English shorts
13. From short + -s.
Verbs referencing "shorts"
Hungarian Nouns
sort, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
shorts, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
shorts, Swedish Nouns
shorts, Russian Nouns
шорты, German Nouns
Shorts.