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?

Atsea 😂 we used to say Nicky knacky noodles

Undies or knickers.

I'm in NW and pants mean trousers here.

I still say ‘vestandpants’ for my own underwear...and I deffo don’t wear a vest

Pants for all.

Trousers for all daytime legwear except leggings {called leggings) or shorts (called shorts). Obviously if specific you can call them 'school trousers'; 'suit trousers'; 'jeans'; 'chinos' etc etc, but basically the generic word is trousers in this household.

But you wouldn't call leggings and jeans 'pants' either. Everything you'd call pants is trousers to me.

I don’t have any girls so it’s pants for the dc and I refer to my own as knicks or knickers.
If I wanted a non gender specific I’d go with undies.

Don't get her started on vests...

Pants for everyone in the house

They're (ironically) chuddies in our house.

we just call them underpants.

Vests are waistcoats. We call them undershirts.

We say pants and i have 2 DD

Pants

Bob

Pants for boys, knickers or pretty pants for girls - panties is horrible!

Lancashire here and pants can absolutely mean outerwear, trousers, “work pants” etc.

Knickers here for girls.
Undies for boys.

When I was growing up it was knickers for girls and underpants for boys.

I tend to use knickers/pants interchangeably now for girls & pants/boxers for boys...with a sprinkling of undercrackers/kecks/grundies etc

Though, pants instead of knickers does seem a bit less intimate somehow.

In Ireland I’ve never heard pants being used to refer to underwear, we use it the same way Americans do, as trousers. In our house we call knickers knickies

As I said, everyone here (NW) uses pants for trousers but pants will always be underwear to me!!

Pants!

I don’t like ‘knickers’, it was a crude word growing up, similar to ‘tits’.

Er pants?

No one female says panties, only pervy Americans

* Knicky knacky noos for some reason!*

For some reason this became our term for pull-ups which DD wore at night once she was potty trained in the day.

But otherwise, knickers. I refer to children's as knickers and mine is "underwear".

In our house the girls wear knickers and ds wore pants. We also used the term pantaloons when we're messing around. No idea why.

Pants pants pants

Panties is a horrible twee word

And trousers have legs and go over your pants

I see some people say it's a regional thing. I've only ever heard it from Americans

Knickers for us. It was panties for me growing up - I still use panties myself but not for my daughter. When my son is old enough it’ll be pants or underwear.