knickerbockered
English
Etymology
knickerbocker + -ed
Adjective
knickerbockered (not comparable)
- Dressed in knickerbockers.
- 1901, H. G. Wells, The First Men in the Moon, Chapter 9,
- I stood for a moment struck by the grotesque effect of his soaring figure—his dirty cricket cap, and spiky hair, his little round body, his arms and his knickerbockered legs tucked up tightly—against the weird spaciousness of the lunar scene.
- 1901, H. G. Wells, The First Men in the Moon, Chapter 9,