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jeaned

jeaned

1 6.3
Dressed in jeans or clothes made from denim
  • adjective
  • /dʒiːnd/
translation icon : de mezclilla
  • Down in the crevice beneath the carved log bridge, he saw blue-jeaned legs skewed awkwardly from the body attached to them.
  • a blue-jeaned outfit
  • jeaned legs

My boss keeps telling me not to wear Jean shorts, and I like wearing Jean shorts.

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Examples

  • I was attracted by the photograph on the cover: two pairs of dancing legs, one bare and female, the other blue-jeaned and male.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • He wore a casual outfit for the party, including a t-shirt and his favorite jeaned shorts.

  • If she still comes to sprawl, one jeaned leg crossed over the other the way girls her age did then, this is where to watch.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • Floyd was a short, blue-jeaned island off at the edge of two thousand acres of swamped rice field.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • He lay back against the black leather of the chair, his hand to his chin, his blue-jeaned legs stretched out straight, and he stared away in the distance just as he had done at the moment she had first seen him.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • A big-haired, tight-jeaned woman gave him the twice-over, but she didn't look like a PGA fan, so Kenny figured it was his good looks that had attracted her.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • I drifted, trailing my hand in the bay, seeing my hand on Peter Sackrider's blue-jeaned knee as we sat in his idling Volkswagen on the narrow, sinuous road that led to his parents' house in Kentucky.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • As she walked through the market, her jeaned legs stood out against the bright colors of the stalls.

  • The artist captured the essence of youth in his painting, featuring a group of friends with their colorful, jeaned legs hanging off the edge of a pier.

Synonyms

pantalooned
vsjeaned
  • Archaic
9.1

Wearing trousers or long fitted pants

is specific to denim fabric rather than general lower-body garments

Surface Forms

jeaned positive

Morphology

jeaned = jean (transparent) = jean + ed

Clearly formed from the noun 'jean' plus the adjectival/past participle suffix '-ed', meaning 'wearing or covered with denim'.

Etymology

Jeaned comes from jeans, the strong trousers named after the Italian city Genoa, where the cloth first came from. So, to be jeaned means 'wearing jeans' or 'covered with denim'.