To think " belly" is a horrid, ugly word!

I am from Northumberland, my mother is from Yorkshire and we are a tummy button family!

I'm worrying about your 'moist panties ' now MissAdventure

Belly sounds common well that says it all I have a common belly and a common bum but if I m angry it might be a fat arse tummy is baby talk stomach is the bit inside isn’t it ?
I can’t believe there is so much class around words for the anatomy I must walk in such common circles
There’s only one word that make me cringe and it’s not panties belly or bum it’s the c word which I cannot bear everything else seems fine to me but them I m obviously common as muck or should I say dirty soil

I was living in New Jersey and got asked if I had fanny bag to take to the beach SueDonim

Always makes me chuckle

Another word that horrifies me is n**ple

I can't even type it

Thong! it's what it conjures up rather than the actual word, lacking in an adequate gusset I imagine!, displaying far too much belly and bottom to use two horrible body part names . Suffice to say an insubstantial and what looks to be an incredibly uncomfortable under garment.

As children we weren’t allowed to use the words belly or bum. I’ve grown used the term bum but belly I’ve never much liked. No logic to that at all! Tummy allegedly derives from the word stomach.

The American use of the word ‘fanny‘ for your bottom* always throws me, even after nearly two decades of visiting that continent!

*When I was at primary school even the word bottom was forbidden. It was your ‘sit-upon’.

Joaquin Phoenix isn't keen on the word Bottom.

That's his real surname

Joaquin Bottom

I think there are just individual and family words that we tend to feel comfortable with. To me 'bottom' sounds so much ruder than 'bum'. My aunt used 'sit-upon' - ridiculous!

Agree with you, Phoenix; never use it, or bum; prefer tummy, stomach and bottom.
And for some reason I dislike pee, but happily say wee.

I don’t like any words which sound twee to me So that rules out tummy??‍♀️ I don’t dislike belly so much but never use it; it’s all stomach or abdomen etc even to little ones as I like to use regular language with children Others may disagree but it’s an individual choice

Moist panties, gussets and belly!

Ghastly words!

On the subject of "panties", I don't like that word either. However I do accept "panty liners" - the alternative, presumably, would be "gusset liners", which would clearly be totally unacceptable!

@MissAdventure Yes indeed!

Thank you @TerriBull, for making me laugh out loud! Moist gusset - horrible!!!

I don't like it either, but I can't explain why. I don't think it ever came up when I was a girl.

Having said that, you can have a tummy button, but you can't do a tummy flop or have a tummy laugh!

Yep! Panties is the absolute pits, even worse than gusset in my opinion!

Panties is just so twee. Tesco’s consumer panel once offered to send me a 5 pack of knickers to test out and I replied saying my initial feedback would be that they shouldn’t call them panties unless their target market was the under-5s. I never did receive those knickers!

On a thread over on MN a while back, moist was overwhelmingly voted a dislikeable word, closely followed by gusset and as one poster mooted when you put the two together...…...well it's a double horror

Nobody likes "moist", do they?
Coupled with "panties" it's all kinds of wrong.

Countdown's Susie Dent hates the moist word. Just saying....

Ah, common.
The dreaded state of being.

@Oopsminty I agree. Hubby will use the word "moist" to wind me up, at any given opportunity. With a knowing smirk, as he says it. He is like a little boy sometimes!

I don't like the word "belly". It just sounds common. I always used "tummy" with my children. However I did allow my daughters to have a name for their genitalia (we called it a "minny"). And my poor Mother was absolutely horrified! ALL the area should only have been called their "bottom" in her mind! Aww, Happy Days!

I agree Terribull 'panties' really grates on me as well.

What is dreadful about it?