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?

Undies

Pants are outerwear here too.

Knickers or pants. Panties is an American-ism, and a bit porny, IMO.

Knickers for girls... Pants are boys and girls.

Pants for trousers really isn't unusual in the UK. I've heard it in the NE and NW, particularly used by older generations.

Yep I’m in the North East too and trousers are often pants!

We say pants for boys underwear and knickers for girls.

To the poster who said Knicks, just no. Almost as bad as panties 🤮

I'm Irish, pants are jeans etc,
Underpants are for boys..we call them undies or thunder pants here. Girls are knickers.
Panties is one of my most hated words along with the words succulent and moist... The three of those words not even together make me vom. Together they are hideous.

Am I the only one who assumed this is a underwear troll?
Troll or not it's quite interesting and and amusing to see people's opinion on what to call a pair of knickers !!

Panties is one of my most hated words along with the words succulent and moist...

Now, I’m with you on moist and panties, however, I rather like succulent . Chafe is definitely on my list though!

I’m not a troll, thank you very much.

Although now I’ve realised the association most people here have with the p word, I can see how you would think that. Bunch of bloody pervs.

Undies here, for girls and boys.

I find knickers as bad as panties.

M&S's 'fancy little knickers' makes me cringe so hard.

As a child, it was knickers and pants, and as an adult, they're all just undies. I refer them as undies to my 6-year-old son as well.

Knickers for girls, pants for boys (or girls). Trousers does not mean a particular type of legwear to me, it's pretty generic. I never use 'pants' to mean trousers - that's either Anerican usage or from certain places in the UK. I'm a southerner but hear it a lot where I now live (NW England), mostly from kids rather than adults.

Sounds weird but this is how I call it to my children "Undie Pants"

Why is there different words for boys and girls underpants? Aussie here, we say undies.

Pants

Pants or most often knick knocks

I call them all pants, sometimes knickers for mine but usually pants. DH calls his boxers (even though they actually aren’t!!). Not sure what he’d call mine- knickers probably. Bottom half are trousers (or bottoms but I feel like bottoms = pyjamas a bit really). Jeans, leggings etc if I’m being specific.

We’re yorkshire

I'm from the North West and pants means any outerwear that covers your legs.
we say boxers or knickers or just underwear here

Op why are we pervs?

Underwear for all, occasionally undies.
But, if you're being specific, men and boys wear pants, women and girls wear knickers. These are worn under trouser, leggings, trackys, whatever.

"No one female says panties, only pervy Americans"

I watch a couple of US family vlogs (god help me ) and perfectly normal mothers talk about 'panties' in a definitely non-pervy way. Seems a natural word to use if, like Americans, you generally use 'pants' for leg outerwear - a diminutive for the smaller leg-and-bum wear that goes under the outer leg-and-bum covers.

Undergonks.
A kidism by my eldest which stuck and has spread to furthest reaches of our extended family!

Quite a few of my northern friends say "pants" for trousers.

I've skipped to the end of the thread. I gather "pants" is popular, but like OP, that is a word I'd use for trousers. For me when growing up the standard words everyone used were "underpants" for boy and "panties" for girls, so the hatred for the latter here came as a surprise to me. Though I must have guessed it was the wrong word in the UK, as I've always used "knickers" with DD.

Anyway that's irrelevant, taking inspiration from another poster and consulting M&S web site, it's "knickers" for girls and "underpants" for boys.

Op why are we pervs?

I'm sure I don't know. Maybe you were born that way, maybe you were corrupted at a young age. I think that's something you should probably work through with a therapist, though, rather than asking random people on the Internet.