dungarees

English

WOTD – 23 June 2009

Dungaree is typically associated with working clothes, here seen on mechanics working on a Texan trainer during the Second World War.

Etymology

From Hindi डूंगरी (ḍūṅgrī, “coarse calico”), from the name of a village.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˌdʌŋ.ɡəˈɹiːz/

  • Audio (Southern England)

    (file)

Noun

dungarees pl (normally plural, singular dungaree)

1. Heavy denim pants or trousers, usually with bib and braces, worn especially as work clothing.

   Synonym: (US, Canada) overalls

   Helen donned a pair of faded dungarees and grabbed her knapsack before rushing off to school.

   • 2018 July 1, Sharon Walker, “Thirty years since the second summer of love”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     I’d arrived at Heaven nightclub, underneath the Charing Cross railway arches, on a hot Sunday afternoon to find my friends had already gone in – you didn’t risk hanging back and missing your chance – so I joined the queue of kids dressed in the acid house uniform of Day-Glo dungarees and smiley T-shirts.

Related terms

• dungaree

Translations

heavy denim pants or overalls

• Catalan: mico (ca)
• Czech: montérky f pl (bib overalls)
• Dutch: tuinbroek (nl), grove kleren, salopette (nl) f
• Finnish: lappuhaalari, haalarihousut (fi) (with bib); työhousut pl (without bib)
• French: salopette (fr) f
• German: Latzhose (de) f (bib overalls)
• Hungarian: kertésznadrág (hu), overal (hu)
• Italian: tuta (it)
• Maori: tāngari, tarau tāngari
• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} dongeribukse (no) m or f (pants):
• Polish: ogrodniczki (pl) f pl
• Portuguese: macacão (pt)
• Romanian: salopetă de stambă
• Russian: рабо́чие брю́ки f pl (rabóčije brjúki)
• Scottish Gaelic: briogais-biob f (bib overalls)
• Spanish: (Venezuela) braga (es) f, (Chile) jardinera f, (Colombia) overol (es) m, (Argentina) mameluco m, (Spain) pantalón de peto m, mono (es)
• Swedish: snickarbyxor

Anagrams

• Gendreaus, underages, ungreased