sit-upons
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
sit-upons
- plural of sit-upon
- (UK, slang, obsolete) Trousers.
- 1860, Cuthbert Bede, The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, volumes 1-3, page 89:
- But I should advise you, old fellow, to get your sit-upons seated with wash-leather,—just like the eleventh hussars do with their cherry-coloured pants.
References[edit]
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary