breekless
Breekless is a Scots dialect adjective meaning not wearing breeks — trouserless or breeches-less, lacking lower-body clothing.
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Breekless is a Scots dialect adjective meaning not wearing breeks — trouserless or breeches-less, lacking lower-body clothing. 'Breeks' is the Scots word for trousers or breeches. The term is informal and regional, occasionally used to describe someone in a state of undress or as a comic image of someone caught in an undignified situation without their trousers. Archaic in everyday contemporary Scots but survives in dialect literature and as part of the Scots vernacular.
He rushed out of the house breekless in the commotion, which the neighbours found enormously entertaining.
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(Scotland) Not wearing breeks; breechless.
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