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Knickers or pants

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Teetime Tue 05-Dec-17 10:55:35

Just come back from the hospital where they ask you to strip down to bra and pants. I don't wear pants I wear knickers. Apart from the gentlemen here do you wear pants or knickers.smile

MissAdventure Wed 06-Dec-17 12:15:45

Terry Wogan introduced me to directoire knickers.. they used to be mentioned a lot on his radio show.

RosemaryAnne Wed 06-Dec-17 12:19:54

Knickers. :-)

conners13 Wed 06-Dec-17 12:28:49

Drawers, always makes everyone laugh

GrammaH Wed 06-Dec-17 12:29:26

I referred to my 3 year old GS 's undergarments as knickers once. I received a withering look " Ladies wear knickers, boys wear pants" so that told me!!

lovebeigecardigans1955 Wed 06-Dec-17 13:14:08

I just call then pants or knickers. A nurse I worked with used to call them 'knicky-knacky-noos' or 'knicky-knacky-noodles'!
I agree that panties are most definitely for perverts.

marionk Wed 06-Dec-17 13:22:42

Pants, then men in my household wear trousers - only American men wear pants! My mother said knickers was a ‘common’ word ????

grannyinmypocket Wed 06-Dec-17 13:25:20

Wonder why they were called "drawers"

NannyTee Wed 06-Dec-17 13:30:52

Maybe cos that's where they're kept grin

grannyinmypocket Wed 06-Dec-17 13:50:33

I googled it, it's because they were drawn up over the legs

Marmight Wed 06-Dec-17 13:52:23

I assumed that they were called drawers because they were drawn up or on.
I can't let the word pants pass my lips. Gives me the shudders, so knickers they have to be although my family here in Oz call them undies. I may go down that route ....
Leon on Gogglebox goes on about June's 'Knicks'. Go on June, show us yer knicks ?

NannyTee Wed 06-Dec-17 13:57:09

Oh I love Leon he's great. The dirty looks she gives him. Hahaha

Juggernaut Wed 06-Dec-17 14:24:12

I have 'knickers' for Doctor and Hospital apppointments, otherwise I'm always commando!

Juggernaut Wed 06-Dec-17 14:25:09

Why have I put three ppp's in appointment?

dysongirl Wed 06-Dec-17 14:39:58

Jocks in my house for the men
Knickers for me.?

Kittycat Wed 06-Dec-17 14:50:52

Called them knickers for daughters but when had son called them pants! Grandaughter came along and we carried on with pants-potty trained and at nursery-she told me one day " they are knickers Nanny!". That's what the lady at nursery calls them. So that's us told!

goldengirl Wed 06-Dec-17 15:10:00

My Nan also wore directoire knickers and my mum always said they weren't for her when she bought them for my Nan. I remember Nan wearing them when I was small and she couldn't have been as old as I am now - and I certainly don't wear them!!! Mum used to wear 'briefs'

Cosafina Wed 06-Dec-17 15:11:30

Panties is a disgusting Americanism that to me reeks of fetish. I have a friend who insists on calling them pants. My mum used to call them Knick knock noodles. I mostly call them by the Spanish term bragas.

grandtanteJE65 Wed 06-Dec-17 15:11:53

I say underpants or pants, having grown up in the Glasgow area where saying "knickers" was considered dreadfully posh and snobbish.

My sister's godmother who managed a draper's shops talked about "briefs" to her customers if these women were buying for themselves, underpants, if they were buying for little girls and knickers if they were shopping for their mothers or other elder women who wore the kind of garment that had legs. Boys' underpants were called "linings" for some odd reason.

David1968 Wed 06-Dec-17 15:22:41

Knickers! I think my USA grandchildren have finally accepted this word....

123kitty Wed 06-Dec-17 16:04:33

Knicks for me.

Teetime Wed 06-Dec-17 16:32:28

Oh I had forgotten that Mother called them 'briefs' and always had white ones only as did MIL who nearly died of shock when I suggested she might buy some coloured ones.

henbane Wed 06-Dec-17 16:39:19

Knickers - I do agree that panties sounds pervie, but will happily refer to panty liners, which isn't very logical.

My Scottish grandmother used to refer to them as knick knacks, not sure if this was a bowdlerisation of knickers?

NanKate Wed 06-Dec-17 16:46:27

I seem to remember in Dad's Army Captain Mainwaring called his wife's knickers under pinnings ?

My dear old dad would refer to private parts as nether regions.

I could go on but I won't.

Barleysugar Wed 06-Dec-17 16:52:56

Definitely Pants. I use knickers as a ‘ swear ‘ word .

grumppa Wed 06-Dec-17 16:55:32

Englishmen wear pants. American men wear underpants because they refer to their trousers as pants.