scungies
/ˈskʌn(d)ʒɪz
/plural noun Australian informal
Swimming trunks or other sporting briefs: men execute the time-honoured beachside quick change from undies to scungies...
- These red scungies do something to a man.
- In a deckchair, lolling in my scungies, my book kept the sun nicely out of my eyes.
- Board-riders always wore "scungies" under their boardies.
Origin
1970s: from scungy.
- sports drink
- sportsdrome
- sportsfest
- sports finder
- sportsfishing
- sports girl
- sports ground
- sport shirt
- sports industry
- sports injury
- sports jacket
- sports-jacketed
- sportsman
- sportsmanlike
- sportsmanly
- sportsmanship
- sportsman's knife
- sports massage
- sports medicine
- sports meet
- sports palace
- sportspeak
- sportsperson
- sports physician
- sportsplex