Is there a woman alive who still uses the word 'Panties' ?

[MILlovesBegonias]

& I'm not talking about for little kids. I HATE this word. I confess I'm biased as I had some unfortunate incidents as a kid but really? Panties, it's SO old-fashioned. Yet I saw the word used in signage in Victoria's Secret today. It just gets under my skin. Knickers, pants, kecks, grundies, ANYTHING but panties.... bleurgh...

Reminds me of drop dead Fred

In wikipedia there is no article for "knickers", it redirects to "panties."

I think "knickers" is destined to lose to "panties", in the very long term.

Which is a pity. I was brought up with "panties" but since I moved to the UK have come to quite like "knickers".

It's always been knickers for me. I could cope with pants but panties just sounds so childish to me. My DD age 11 has recently taken to referring to them as her pantaloons with a big emphasis on loons. I quite like it.

In "MotherFatherSon", a series set in Britain made for and shown on BBC 2, the son tells a prostitute to take off her "panties." It really jarred, made me wonder if it was some sort of co-production, before I remembered I was watching it on BBC 2.

I don't think it can be excused by the father (Richard Gere) being American, that wouldn't change the language of someone who grew up in Britain.

HRTFT but love your posting name.

I HATE this word. I confess I'm biased as I had some unfortunate incidents as a kid but really? Panties, it's SO old-fashioned. Yet I saw the word used in signage in Victoria's Secret today. It just gets under my skin. Knickers, pants, kecks, grundies, ANYTHING but panties.... bleurgh...

There's a media-darling-drag-queen in Ireland called Panty Bliss, I find it so insulting and disrespectful to women. All I can think when I hear his name is 'panty liners' - bet that's what he called himself to start with, because it's the only way the word panty is used normally.

bleurgh bleurgh bleurgh bleurgh bleurgh bleurgh 🤢

Soft like a porn word to me too.

Sounds not soft.

I agree with someone upthread who spoke about 'sexy' but infantile at the same time. It reeks of soft porn to me.
That's my thoughts. It feels a bit pervy to me.

I don't much like the word but then there are lots of words I don't like. 'Naice' for one, makes my teeth itch.

Not really an issue though, is it? People are always using words and terms that other people don't like. What of it?

I suppose it depends on where you live. To me ( Australia) panties , knickers or undies are just words for underwear. None of the words have any strange connotations, sexual or otherwise. If you find "panty" weird, what do you call the thin pad which is worn in your underwear ? A "knicker liner "?

So many words for the same piece of underwear: shows the richness of the English language I suppose. I've never used panties or pantees. My mother called them knickers and that's what I use, though often shorten it to knicks: don't know why.

Knickers sounds a bit rude to me. I think it grew up saying it but I seem to have evolved to say pants and pants only.

Pants is the word.

Period. (As Americans say - another CRINGE!!)

I hate that word too, it's a but cringe worthy if a British person says it. Like they've watched far far too much American TV. Same as if they use the word diaper, elevator or vacation... It's jarring.

I must admit to a giggle every time I hear an American say "duty" in films though... Now that's just funny

@MarieFromStTropez just last week d niece peed herself and he said to dsil 'she's going to need dry panties'. I promise we're not one of those strange American families.

I hate it. I hadn’t thought of the pervy connection, though I can see it now. I always think that the woman who wears panties probably also wears ‘slacks’ and ‘pumps’. She wouldn’t merely wear them, of course, she would ‘team’ her slack with a pump.

YABU!! Panties was always a more polite word than knickers!! I use it all the time. Great word!!

Not pervy at all. It’s a very innocent word to me.

Dunno if it's because I don't watch/read porn, soft or otherwise, but I get none of these associations with the word.

since I moved to the UK have come to quite like "knickers".

Weren't boys' trousers called knickers?

Sorry if anyone else has posted it, but I like this HuffPost article on the subject, entitled The Worst Word Ever

I dont like it as it sounds like something a pervert would say.

Always knickers for me!

It's so porny.

It's just a word. There seem to be some real porn-hounds on the thread; not everybody watches porn. I don't; 'panties' is just a twee word for underwear.