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britches noun Trousers, pants. [DARE labels this term “chiefly South, South Midland”]

1862 Ingram CW Letters (Oct 4) I sold my Briches that I draw from old Jef Davis. 1863 Revis CW Letters (Feb 24) my britches is giting tolereble bad but I think I can make them do me til I come home. 1939 Hall Coll (Wears Cove) They’d shear the sheep, and she’d spin the wool, the thread, and make our britches and our shirts all. 1963 Edwards Gravel 103 A feller can get too big for his britches sometimes. That’s all I got to say, too big for his britches! 1972 Anna Howard 54 They put on their britches just th’same as your daddy puts his on. 1997 Dante OHP-12 The foreman ... wore a pair of khaki britches, yaller khaki britches, and leggings.

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