{"id":464,"date":"2017-02-12T16:56:31","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T00:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/?p=464"},"modified":"2017-02-12T16:56:31","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T00:56:31","slug":"word-adoption-2017-inexpressibles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/?p=464","title":{"rendered":"Word Adoption 2017: Inexpressibles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-12-at-4.52.57-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-467\" src=\"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-12-at-4.52.57-PM-1024x794.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"794\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-12-at-4.52.57-PM-1024x794.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-12-at-4.52.57-PM-300x233.png 300w, https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-12-at-4.52.57-PM-768x596.png 768w, https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-12-at-4.52.57-PM.png 1712w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>Inexpressibles<\/strong> is another word for underpants. You may be more familiar with the term\u00a0<em>unmentionables<\/em>. This is the same idea, but somehow even more likely to make you require a fainting couch. This word makes me fan myself and consider wearing corsets.<\/p>\n<p>I encourage you to\u00a0support <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordnik.com\">Wordnik<\/a>, particularly through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/?p=105\">word adoption<\/a>. In 2016, I adopted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/?p=457\">boustrophedonic<\/a>. In 2015, I adopted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordnik.com\/words\/quiddity\">quiddity<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inexpressibles is another word for underpants. You may be more familiar with the term\u00a0unmentionables. This is the same idea, but somehow even more likely to make you require a fainting couch. This word makes me fan myself and consider wearing corsets. I encourage you to\u00a0support Wordnik, particularly through word adoption. In 2016, I adopted boustrophedonic. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordnik","category-words","cat-26-id","cat-6-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4SNLB-7u","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468,"href":"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions\/468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}