パンツ

パンツ · pantsu · JLPT N2 · noun

underpants

パンツ — underpants

🩲 Borrowed from English pants, but means underwear; trousers are zubon (ズボン).

Japanese took the British English sense of pants, meaning underwear. In American English, pants means trousers, so the two dialects use the same word for different garments.

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