knickerbockers

Other forms of knickerbockers

plural

knickerbockerses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about knickerbockers

What does knickerbockers mean?

knickerbockers means "(used in the plural) trousers ending above the knee".

How many syllables are in knickerbockers?

knickerbockers has 4 syllables: knic-ker-boc-kers. The stress falls on "knic". In IPA it is /ˈnɪkɚˌbɑkɚz/.

What is another word for knickerbockers?

Close synonyms include breeches, knee breeches, knee pants, knickers. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is knickerbockers a common word?

knickerbockers is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.