Meaning
Women's or girls' underpants — the loose, full knickers of the old style, and by extension the plain panties worn under a dress. 'Bloomers' also names the modest cover shorts worn under a school gym tunic or a short skirt. It is a homely, slightly old-fashioned word in the same everyday clothing vocabulary as petticoat and drawers, and it turns up in scolding, teasing, and talk of the wash line.
Examples
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Har bloomers pon di clothes line.
Her underpants are on the clothesline.
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Di gym tunic have bloomers unda it.
The gym tunic has cover shorts under it.
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Buy a pack a bloomers fi di likkle gyal.
Buy a pack of underpants for the little girl.
Origin
From English 'bloomers'; women's/girls' underpants or cover shorts. See [[drawers]], [[petticoat]].
How it’s used
Women's/girls' underpants; also cover shorts under a gym tunic. See [[drawers]], [[petticoat]].