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In modern dialogue, which in no sense approaches the gentility of the perfumed puritanicals, the denotation of unmentionables has broadened to include body organs, curses, and biological functions.
I knew unmentionables simply as a euphemism for `underwear'; two dictionaries of American usage, one thesaurus, and one husband (from Mr. Sharp's own state of Missouri) bear out that impression.
Upon reading Don Sharp's otherwise well-researched article on unmentionables [XVIII,2], I had the distinct impression that he had gone too far in defining that crucial word.
Writing styles have changed greatly from Victorian days when, as Phyllis Cunnington observes in Costumes of the Nineteenth Century, to talk of trousers was considered vulgar, and some extraordinary names were given to them, such as unmentionables, inexpressibles, unwhisperables, nether integuments, and others.
Most will agree that euphemism is an acceptable means of avoiding the unmentionables, unutterables, inexplicables, ineffables, inexpressibles, and whatever else they have been called.