Oh I would have said the same and I'm a Brit Because it also does mean trousers, or short pants, they probably was teasing you. With regards to underpants, it is very rarely used, because if one shouts to mum, it's always where are my underpants, if we shout pants, she would obviously think trousers.cbavasi wrote:No... this was a pretty raunchy group... they later told me "pants" was "underpants" and my original statement may have been more like "my pants are soaking wet"ksl wrote: The snickering is probably because they found it funny, laughable, that you have to sit there in wet pants. It's a kind of sick humour, that many cultures find hard to grasp, it would be even funnier if you died of cold, if you see what i mean.
pants[pænts]
n. trousers, pantaloons; underwear, panties, underpants; (British) shorts