I've done it again, me bloggy waterhogs... I've been to that dark place... That Statcounter thingummiejig...
I was curious to be looking at where you all come from, where you live, and what brings you here, into Fhina's World, and into her waiting, warm and always loving, embrace...
One of the latest word-searches that has brought some, (probably very disappointed!), traffic to me site, is apparently this one:
"I love going knickerless"
Putting my moue and my upset aside for a moment, I pondered the word, "Knickers..."
- knickers
- "short, loose-fitting undergarment," now usually for women, 1881, shortening of knickerbockers (1859), said to be so called for their resemblance to those of Dutchmen in Cruikshank's illustrations from Washington Irving's "History of New York" (see knickerbocker).
Doesn't it sound old fashioned and a bit naughty? Is it mainly used by the English, or does the term travel the Pond?
It used to be more frequently used as a good substitute for a swear word, when you're not too serious about what's got your knickers in a twist in the first place...
My Other Half occasionally reverts to his youth, brought up in a bizarrely politically extrovert, and yet hypocritically repressive, family... And he emits the word, "Knickers!"
It always makes me laugh out loud...
Knickers to the lot of you! ;)
