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Originally Posted by LancYorkYankee
Okay so dungarees are the things farmers wear overhere we call overalls, with the suspenders eh?
Brian
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Trust a Yank to get wrong
... overalls means over all ... get it ? and dungarees don't do this, do they ?
Thought they might come from 'dung' .. summat to do with muck, then I boringly googled the word and seems originally from a Hindu word 'Dungri' meaning course cotton which was exported from India to England in the 18th century. Was originally used for sails and tents, but then working clothing for sailors and eventually into the style we know with two syllables added .. because I suspect us British don't like too many words ending in a vowel... always sounds foreign like..
