Untouchables

[Psybbo]

Where is this known as 'Trousers', please

[Captain2]

Any more info Psybbo?

[Mamyalynne]

Maybe 'Unmentionables'?

//Even the word 'trousers' was too shocking to say, so a number of different euphemisms for these garments were coined in the late 18th and 19th centuries. Apart from unmentionables, there's also: inexpressibles, ineffables, inexplicables, indescribables, etceteras, indispensables, unimaginables, innominables, unwhisperables, unutterables, unprintables and never-mention-'ems, plus the rhyming slang round-me-houses, and many other euphemisms in the Oxford English Dictionary.//

http://virtuallinguist.typepad.com/the_virtual_linguist/2011/02/unmentionables.html

[Mamyalynne]

I love 'Round me Houses' lol

[Psybbo]

Thanks Captain and Mamyalynne, it was a clue in the Guardian quick crossword today and I'd never heard of it

[tonyav]

Untouchables !, I know them as bags.

[Captain2]

So the clue was 'trousers' with an answer of 'unmentionables' (or vice versa) and you were wondering who used this terminology?

I always thought that unmentionables were UNDER your trousers ;0))

[Psybbo]

Yes Captain, the clue was trousers and I agree with you

[Mamyalynne]

Looks like I was a bit off the track but was fun researching.

[Psybbo]

Oh lord, the title in question should be 'unutterables', apologies everybody, must have been a Freudian slip

[Mamyalynne]

Ah - Hurrah!!

[Captain2]

;0))))

[tonyav]

LOL.

[Mamyalynne]

Is that a new clue Psybbo? Petticoat?