Dungarees are trousers with a bib and straps over the shoulders. A pair of dungarees, wear dungarees, denim dungarees.
They are plural only, like trousers. Americans call the same garment overalls, and in Britain overalls means a boiler suit, which is a different thing entirely. The name comes from a coarse Indian cotton called dungri.
1noundungareesTrousers with a bib and straps over the shoulders.
“The toddler wore blue dungarees with a big pocket on the front.”
dungarees is a garment.
From dungaree, a coarse Indian cotton, from Hindi dungri, named after a village near Mumbai.
Hindi
डूंगरी — coarse calico
English, today
dungarees
From dungaree + s, from Hindi डूंगरी (“coarse calico”), from the name of a village.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA