What do you call your child’s underwear?

[DorothyLNaySayers]

Potty training 2.5 yr old Dd. I hate the word ‘panties’ but ‘knickers’ seems age-inappropriate and ‘underwear’ too generic. Are there any better words out there?

They're called "undies", "under-grundies" or "grundies" in our house.

Panties sound grubby in a sexual way. Knickers or pants for a girl. Dd uses this interchangeably.

“Panties” is definitely sexual. I just have this horrible mental image of an American voice mumbling “wet panties! wet panties!” . I’m not sure where I’m half remembering that from, maybe a comedy sketch, but I can’t unhear it I’m afraid.

If you can’t use pants, how about undies?

We used knickers but Knick Knick's have king of evolved from that 😂

We always said undies. (I’m not native British though).

Panties is American.

We use knickers or pants in this house. Or knicky knocky noo nahs.

Knickers here for me and our daughter.

Pants are definitely outerwear also. Means the same as trousers. Is it regional? I'm north west.

Pants - boys knickers - girls. My lot do call them pantyloons though.

I also thought it was only America that said pants for trousers/jeans. I have also never heard the word apparel before so you learn something new every day.

My American colleague once said “don’t get your panties in a bunch” when another colleague was getting worked up about something stupid.

I was totally taken aback! Then I figured out she was basically saying “don’t get your knickers in a knot”.

When I told her the british equivalent she was equally taken aback. Both thought the other sounded quite rude, when in our own environments, they were just one of those sayings that don’t mean much.

Knickers for females. Undies or Boxers for males depending on the style. I work with young children so I have heard lots of different children referring to their clothing over the years and these seem to be the words they use day to day.

Pants. I'm southern england with Irish parents. I think they were knickers when i was young but we use pants for DD.

Because Pantasaurus wears pants. We sing the song getting dressed.

Same round here that pants are trousers/leggings /jeans

In our house underpants for boys and knickers for girls

Underpants or knickers

we have pants as trousers (north west) so say knickers and underpants. PS it was the Americans that took the word from us not visa versa!

Hate the word 'panties'. It makes me cringe.

Pants for me.
Boxers for Dh and ds's - no matter if it is actually boxers or trunks or whatever they're called these days!

My Irish mil uses pants the American rather than English way too.

Like most on this thread, panties sounds pervy to my ear. We use pants.

DH calls his 'gruns'. So sexy...

Am I the only one who assumed this is a underwear troll?

Pants for all here too.

We call trousers pants round here

Pants or sometimes pantaloons!!

I've lived in several parts of England North, South and West, my DM was from Liverpool and DF from North East, and I've never heard trousers referred to as pants.

I’m in the North East and I’ve never heard pants for trousers. Never heard anyone say it apart from Americans.

And I’ve lived all over the uk.