UNDERWEAR in Britain used to be termed "unmentionables".
Families have secrets and unmentionables, as many will have been reminded this Christmas.
All the while, we have Z-list celebrities eating animals' unmentionables for a Bush Tucker Trial on the other side of the world in the name of entertainment for the British public (but the less said about that the better).
Now unmentionables are not just mentionable but objects of boasting.
I don't mean to raise my voice, but ain't no other office to go to but this one.... Y'all say y'all don't want a niggah on welfare they get off it, they get them a lil' funky-ass job cleanin' up piss and shit and vomit and other unmentionables and you wanna drop 'em out of the system faster than a hoe droppin' panties on the Auction St. corner.
Either way, he was dead, though it was a long time before I was allowed to know this, because whereas Gordon had been dear old Gordon, a first-class chap and the salt of the earth even if he's a bit too fond of the bottle, he had suddenly joined the unmentionables who had lost faith.
Make way for the unmentionables in rigorous slang-ology with "Green's Dictionary of Slang," by Jonathon Green, whom Martin Amis calls "Mister Slang".
Unmentionables poured in, their movements clumsy yet swift; their burial clothing in a range of untidiness… As guests fled in every direction, Mr. Bennett's [sic] voice cut through the commotion.
For the rest of the seminar, as we practiced other unmentionables, I sat there on the tennis court, breathing thinly in my mask, wondering how our sad, tense world had come to this.
9 A.M. (Oxygen) THE DUCHESS (2008) No bodices rip in this historical drama from Saul Dibb, but Ralph Fiennes, below, as the Duke of Devonshire, does takes scissors to the unmentionables of Georgiana Spencer, the Duchess of Devonshire, portrayed by Keira Knightley, in this adaptation of a biography by Amanda Foreman.
There are plenty of examples that indicate that the market for men's unmentionables has been heading in a more fashion-conscious direction for some time, what with the popularity of the new Calvin Klein Bold collection (featuring vibrant color choices like "limeade" and "splash"), rainbow-striped briefs from Diesel and — oh, my word — the latest snakeskin-printed waistbands from 2 x ist.
