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?

RAF family here, boys and mens undies are called shreddies. No I don't know why they are called that!
Girls are pants or knickers.

Knickers, knick knacks, knickernonks, knickynoo noos, knick knack paddy whacks. I mix it up every day to give her a giggle, she finds this hilarious and it helps wake her up at 6am every morning i have issues 😁

Kecks was army slang and came from the word for traditional Sikh baggy underwear *one if the 7 'k' s of Sikhdom. It came from, I think, Urdu when troops were stationed in India - other words derived this way are goolies and char for tea .

I also think the word panties is yucky and would never say it.

Can’t believe I’ve been backed into defending panties as a word. FML.

This amuses me.

Undies in our house.

Undies here too

Pants or if we are feeling in a funny mood, nicky nacky noos

Pants. For everyone. Maybe occasionally referred to as part of underwear, e.g. underwear drawer.

Ohyesiam And your OH knows that how?

Superpants stemming from a mishearing of the word underpants by my then two year old. He’s 8 now and still wears superpants.

I call them all knickers-even DH’s and teen DS’s pants. They hate it

I call my DS underwear 'undies' to help differentiate between underwear and trousers as I call trousers 'pants' because DS couldn't say trousers at the time

I grew up in the ne, have lived in several northern, southern, midland and scottish cities, ending up in the nw.

Never heard pants used for trousers except in the us/sa.

Is it a lancashire thing?

My 9 year old very promptly corrects me when I call them pants now..
'They are boxers mummy I don't wear pants now'

U may not wear pants anymore but u still call me mummy 🥰

I'm from Lancashire. Knickers for girls/women and underpants/undies/ boxers for boys/men.

To me, pants are trousers. I don't understand how pants and underpants can mean the same thing to some people as to me it's logical that underpants (underwear) are worn under pants (outerwear).

Make it female are all pants in our house. I can just about stomach knickers but they sound frilly/lacy to me. Panties is just bleugh! Undies I could work with.

That should have read ‘male or female’!

Pants for everyone. Including myself.

I don't like the word knickers and panties is horrible .

Is it a lancashire thing?

Almost definitely. I have very little idea where Lancashire is, but it’s most probably from there that I learned pants. As did you, apparently.

It was knickers for boys and girls in my house!
My poor brother!!

I'm in the north west and pants are your jeans etc.
Daughter- knicks
Son - undies

DorothyLNaySayers

Lancashire is in North West England.

This has been an education. I'm Scottish and like many posters I thought the use of pants to refer to trousers/generic bottom outerwear was not something used in the UK.

Anyway, I now see why you've asked. All bottom underwear in our house is pants regardless of gender. You could use underpants, briefs or underwear I guess. We also use breeks but that will be regional. Or, personal family joke, Y backs, after one of my brothers put his Y fronts on back to front. Don't really get Y fronts so much nowadays.

DM used to call boys’ underwear ‘undies’ and girls’ ‘knickers’
For some illogical reason, I always hated those words, I found them strangely embarrassing. No Idea why. Can’t explain it. But it has stuck with me, so we all wear ‘pants’ and if they are for the wash they become ‘duds’ as in ‘pick them dirty duds up off the floor’