dungarees

I can’t imagine laughing over the word dungarees ever again.

Vivian Rising Daniella Brodsky 2010

I'm a carpenter, so the likelihood that I could be persuaded to part with my Carhartt dungarees is quite slim.

Sound Politics: Vast Oddball Conspiracy Emanating From Issaquah 2006

Men adored Jan. She was small and bright-eyed and a lifelong tomboy: she did not cook or sew and was happiest in dungarees with a kerchief round her head (she had an aristocratic disdain for appearances) and loved boyish windswept pursuits – scouting, camping, tracking, carpentry, rope work.

Try Anything Twice 1938

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: When I was a kid they were called dungarees, but somehow somewhere in the '60s they became blue jeans and I just never took them off.

CNN Transcript Jul 22, 2003 2003

I remember back in the early 60's it became popular for mothers to put their little girls in "dungarees" and get them "pixie" haircuts, and brag that they were "tomboys."

Painting Inspired Dress # 1 2009

Ghosh also mentioned "dungarees" and a rather thin explanation for the phrase "no can do," but I was already in transports of excitement over "seersucker," so I didn't quite take them in.

seersucker Megan Kurashige 2008

Some words which used to be common in American English have become uncommon: "dungarees," for example.

Science and Strangeness 2005

She still calls her jeans "dungarees" as if she had even once mucked out a horse stall.

magic-city-news.com 2009

Moore goes on to rail against other modern abominations like "dungarees" and "intendos,"

Gothamist 2008

Levi Strauss & Co.'s original pair of dungarees, first sold to miners in 1873 during the California gold rush; Jane Birkin in impossibly low-rise bell bottoms roaming the streets of Paris with Serge Gainsbourg; Brooke Shields ensuring nothing got between her and her Calvins.

Forever in Blue Jeans Alexa Brazilian 2011