My wife has taught our daughter to say panties. I am not really sure what my wife calls them. I do not like to use the word personally, so I say “Pull your drawers up” and my daughter says “There not drawers, they are panties.” Then I have to say “Well pull your panties up.”
She refers to her pants as drawers.
Jeffery
I’ve always considered “underwear” to be the whole set – bra and, yes, panties. I call them “panties” if I’m referring to just the bottom item alone. What else? Briefs? That’s men’s panties to me.
I call them “underwear.” My mom says “panties,” which my sister and I find hilarious for some reason.
Stella, I agree that “underpants” is funny (although I never left mine in a guy’s dorm room . . . at least not that I recall . . .). It’s just a funnier word than “underwear” for some reason. I’ve noticed that Calvin (of “and Hobbes”) always refers to them as “underpants.”
The word panties really drives me up the wall… It’s a word that men use, or parents, but generally it seems to either have a condescending, sexual, or subtle “us vs them” feel when it’s used by men. It’s always a “panty-raid.” I agree that it makes me think of leering pedophiles. The word “pussy” does as well. I call 'em undies, because I see no funtional difference between “panties” and men’s “underwear”, except as some odd gender-defining thing, in terms of words.
I call them panties, and I only wear them on weekends.
I have no idea where it came from, but the last time I had reason to refer to those elements of attire I called them “dainties” and the name has taken on a sort of life of its own
Photons have mass!? I didn't even know they were Catholic...I just call them, “boxers”. Now, my wife calls them “underwear” unless it is part of some sexy outfit.
“Quoth the Raven, ‘Nevermore.’”
E A Poe
“Panties” to me connotes either
I typically say “undies” for every-day use - to my mind, not too staid, not too suggestive.
I’ve always liked the term “unmentionables”, sort of a pleasant conundrum, but find it too long for regular conversation.
I have absolutely nothing to add to the discussion of panties, but I missed tonight’s (2 November) episode of SportsNight.
What’d I miss?
Ne’ermind. Apparently it was pre-empted tonight. Whew.
Maybe it was pre-empted where you live, Montfort, but I saw it.
Danny met a girl in a bar who turned out to be a psychologist. He called her for a date, and Casey told him it was really an appointment. When he showed up for what he thought was a date, he ended up staying for an appointment. Apparently he has some father issues.
Jeremy claimed to have made the studio Y2K compliant. They ran a real-time test at 6:00pm. At one point, Jeremy pressed a button and they lost all video, audio and power. Turns out it was because a panel was rewired but not relabeled, and Dana forgot to tell him.
There was other stuff, but I really don’t remember.
“I love God! He’s so deliciously evil!” - Stewie Griffin, Family Guy
pl - you didn’t miss much! That about sums it up. One of my new favorite shows, btw. I know, I know, like anyone cares… 
Underwear are what my mother and grandmother wear.
As for me at university we called it gitch don’t ask me why. I tend to call them panties now, it sounds a little more femimin.
However I feel they were the worst invention next to the bra. They promote bateria growth and many doctors encourage you to spend some time during the day with out them.
AS FOR ME I WEAR A THONG!
All we really needed to know we learned in Kindergarden
Well, when you are talking about something like a thong that may be silk or have some flower design or may even be lace then they are panties, which is what I say.
My hubby wears boxers and I call them boxers, my son wears scooby-doo and I call them undies.
I was taught as a little girl that they are called panties, and yes they had the lacey butt. [damn i was cute! lacey butt and all]
To me, “panty” sounds like something damp and sticky and gross. I’ll never call them panties, no matter how feminine they are. I’ll call a thong a thong, but mostly I call the whole lump category undies. The word “panties” makes me shrivel up in disgust.
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We could adopt the term Megeara used in Thorne Smith’s “the Night Life of the Gods.”
Just call ‘em pull-offs. Heh, heh.
mmmm panties. I just like the way it feels to say, like “fallopian tubes”. Say it out-loud to yourself, isn’t it fun to say?!?!
All that aside, I refer to underwear in general as “drahwlz”.
-MrSCOTT