onderbroek

From Dutch onderbroek. Equivalent to onder- (“under”) +‎ broek (“trousers”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔnərˌbruk/

onderbroek (plural onderbroeke, diminutive onderbroekie)

1. undershorts, underpants, pants (underwear, for either sex, any gender)

From onder- (“under”) +‎ broek (“trousers”). Attested since the seventeenth century.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔn.dərˌbruk/

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• Hyphenation: on‧der‧broek

onderbroek f or m (plural onderbroeken, diminutive onderbroekje n)

1. a pair of undershorts, underpants or pants (underwear for any sex or gender), short or long johns which can be worn under trousers and directly on the skin of lower limbs and private parts

   Hij haalde een schone onderboek uit de la.

   He took clean underpants from the drawer.

• onderbroekenhumor
• onderbroekenlol

• Afrikaans: onderbroek
• → Sranan Tongo: ondrobruku (calque)
• → West Frisian: ûnderbroek (calque)

• ondergoed
• slip
• suspensoir

• breken door, doorbreken