And/or a garter belt, a chemise, a girdle, a teddy, a merry widow, pantyhose, a petticoat, a slip…
I like the old term “smallclothes” 
The reason I hate “panties” but not “undies” is that the former sounds patronizing to me. It sounds like another way that women get infantilized. It’s impossible to say the word “panties” without sounding juvenile. “Undies” is just a short way to say “underwear.”
It’s not like I feel particularly strongly about this or want to make it a crusade or anything. 
It’s just my opinion.
Massive ditto. I’ve always had a vague dislike for the word “panties,” and this does a very good job of putting words to why.
“Nappy” isn’t baby talk. It’s the word commonly used to describe a diaper in English English. It’s a contraction, but one prevalent enough that most people don’t even know that.
All right, all right, y’all have convinced me.
I’ll call 'em cootercoats from now on.
“Veggies” never bothered me. “Hubby” makes me think of AOL Chat Room banter.
What’s funny (to me, anyway) is I used to work with an Indian guy. As many of you know (India) Indians frequently make a ‘w’ sound in place of the ‘V’ sound. This is especially ironic since most Indian people I know are vegetarians. I’d bust out laughing every time he said “I want the weggie platter” when we went out to eat.
It also has a slighty… pervy connotation, IMO. Like a guy buying used PANTIES on eBay to furtively sniff. Uegheghghghghhhh.
I find if I take my meds, meds doesn’t bother me as much.
I do…ish.
It sounds like “febrahrie”
I agree on cankles, preggers, hubby…oh, and binkie! WTF! Let’s sit our kids in front of Elmo (derails cognitive development if you ask me) and then say, “Oh did you wooze your binkie?”
Totally. Hate. Panties.
Though there was a short time in college I wondered if I could run a panty gig to pay off my tuition.
Just a moment, though. It passed.
I don’t see much difference, but why is that the only word for the female one (besides “women’s underwear”)? After all, we have all too many words for men’s underwear.
No, that’s ironick, with a k, which is defined as being “the sort of ‘irony’ seen by people who learned their definition of the term from an Alanis Morisette song.”
Oh I just roflcoptered.
“Cootercoat” just sounds like a merkin.
Oh dammit that’ll teach me to go look at Wikipedia when there’s coworkers talking behind me
I hope you at least hummed the “The More You Know” theme as they stood around in shocked silence.
Merkin sounds like jerkin which sounds like jerking off.
Somehow jerking off seems a little more pervy than masturbating.
Just sayin’.
Eh? There’s panties and briefs and bikinis and thongs. And tap pants and pettipants. And a bunch more I’m spacing on.
G-strings, v-strings, tangas, boyshorts, minikinis*, Brazilian-cut, hipsters…
*I may have made that one up.
Don’t forget panties of the crotchless variety.