Word To Use Today: galligaskins.

Obviously no one can actually really use the word galligaskins - that would be ridiculous - but, all the same, it's the sort of word where it's nice to know that it's there.

The word gaskin might come from it (and that's slightly more usable) but galligaskins first.

These trousers are galligaskins:



And this is what a gaskin looks like:


illustration by Owain Davies 

On the other hand you do see some people wearing some odd garments nowadays:




so perhaps it's time that the word galligaskins came back into use

It has to be more politically correct than harem pants, doesn't it.

Word To Use Today: galligaskins. This word came from the French garguesques, from the Italian grechesco, which means Greek, from the Latin Graecus.