Not the romantic type, eh?
[QUOTE=Rhinocerous]
Errr…that’s pretty much why it’s sexist. Taking something WE’RE wearing for practical purposes and making it all about YOUR sexual fantasies. It’s not alway all about you.
That said, underwear that’s worn with the intention of engendering sexual fantasies can certainly be called panties 
.
And since I’m here…“boobies”. And “titties”. Have some respect for the dignity of the human female body! They’re tits, damn it!!!
And since I’m still here, “pussy”. It’s such a pussy word.
Seven.
(If you know why, then you understand)
?? Maybe because, having two syllables, it ruins the meter of many potential songs or poems that run down the list of numbers?
??
[steve martin]
And I BELIEVE that it is disrespectful to refer to a woman’s breasts as “jugs,” “bazooms,” “winnebagos,” or “golden bozos,” but you should only refer to them as “hooters.”
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FWIW, dictionary.com partially disagrees with you.
Put me down as one more person who cannot stand the word “utilize” and has banned it from all her business writing, including resumes. Also, if I see your resume has the word “utilize” on it when “use” would work just as well and I have any say in the matter, you will not be as well regarded as someone who merely used “use”.
My father, on the other hand, has a pet peeve about people who use “technological” when “technical” is the appropriate form.
CJ
“bourgeoisie”
Drives me up the wall.
Aside from any word that is prounounced our used incorrectly, the words that bug me for the simple fact that they are not pleasing to my ear are
Erudite
Gravitas
replete. (I will go to great lengths to avoid using this word)
penis
vagina
scheme
bladder
Moist.
(Just gross.)
[Billy Connolly (waxing eloquent on the word “wank”)]
You can travel the world over and never find a bedspring that goes “masturbate”
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I don’t know, I have never had occasion to use the word so I guess there are ways around it. But perhaps “moving” or “touching” would do.
Count me as another “panty”-hater. Little girls wear panties. I much prefer “knickers,” which sounds sexy-dirty instead of pervy-dirty.
(The British have a real knack for good names for dirty things. Or maybe it was one Englishman in particular that has made me somewhat biased on this point …)
In the business-speak category, I would like to nominate “solutions” when used in any context other than that of specific problems.
[QUOTE=betenoir]
But what about my needs?
“and whatnot” I can’t stand it when somebody says it. It does not add anything at all. It is just a crutch utilized(ha) to end a sentence. Worse yet is when somebody writes it. What are you thinking?
Oh yeah, I hate “and whatnot!” ARRRRRRARRRRRRRGHHHHHHH!
Discipline. This is the second most criminally misused word in the English language, next to love.
I am still sticking up for utilize, but I wanted to add that I hate the word nostril. Don’t know why, it’s just awful.
Impatience with Marxist rhetoric I could understand, but what’s wrong with “bourgeoisie” as a word?
eclectic. arghh! Why does every restaurant that opens lately describe themselves as ‘eclectic’? If you don’t know what to say, how to describe yourself, then don’t! Don’t use this word anymore!
’moving forward’ My boss overuses this to the nth degree. I counted one time how many times he used this in a 1 hour meeting. 6 times! Every 10 minutes! As we move forward…moving forward, we’ll… Give it a rest bossman.
another vote for how dumb ‘panties’ sounds.
Fondle. It just sounds sleazy.