Panties

49greg · Aug 12, 2015

Carnevil9 said:
Of course, if you really want to offend people, but while using words that are not in the least bit offensive, you have to work "niggardly" into your conversation.

Seems a while back, maybe in Texas, there was a local politician or some such who used that word, and because a lot of people weren't edjamacated enough to know what it meant, he had to resign.

beachbum1958 · Aug 13, 2015

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Handley_Page · Aug 13, 2015

HERE may help with any confusion.

Obviously, it's down to some sort of English contraction.
Mrs Bloomer has a lot to answer for. . . .

sr71plt · Aug 13, 2015

beachbum1958 said:
Speaking as a British writer here on the site, I prefer not to use the word 'knickers'; I think being married to an American lady for so long has kind of eroded the word out of my personal lexicon, and besides, to me, the word 'panties' sounds a lot more feminine and 'girly' than 'Knickers' (which, for some reason has always sounded vaguely coarse to me, and before you ask, I don't know why), 'Bloomers', 'underwear', 'smalls', and various other equally gloomy euphemism's for ladies underthings. My own 'Lady of the House and Mistress of my Destiny' (her words) gets that pursed-lip look when I use the word 'knickers', as she knows it's usually followed by a 'lady-parts' joke from my army friends, who are no longer allowed in the house in case they teach the dogs bad habits...

In my case, I follow my wife's lead, because the list of words I find acceptable for use in polite company are steadily being red-penned and disallowed over the years anyway; her frequent comment, after I've used a word she either finds unacceptable or incomprehensible, is 'where were you dragged up?" My reply 'Eton College, dear' just curls her lip, followed by a comment along the lines of 'my, how standards have fallen recently...

I think encountering "knickers" for panties in a story will throw almost any American reader out of the story.

redzinger · Aug 13, 2015

Nelly No Knickers - my mother's expression for a loose woman.

beachbum1958 · Aug 13, 2015

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TxRad · Aug 13, 2015

sr71plt said:
I think encountering "knickers" for panties in a story will throw almost any American reader out of the story.

Not necessarily. I used the word several times in a story about an English woman on vacation in Dayton. No one said anything about it. Context and all that.

oggbashan · Aug 13, 2015

redzinger said:
Nelly No Knickers - my mother's expression for a loose woman.

In Kent, women used to be told not to wear a Red Hat because locally "A red hat means no knickers", a signal that she is going commando and on the prowl.

The local branches of the Red Hat Society don't care!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Society

Kent is also the home of the Loose Women's Institute:

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/loose-womens-institute

And the Loose Women's Morris:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_2MIx1OeCU

Carnevil9 · Aug 13, 2015

oggbashan said:
In Kent, women used to be told not to wear a Red Hat because locally "A red hat means no knickers", a signal that she is going commando and on the prowl.

I once knew a man from Kent.

49greg · Aug 13, 2015

sr71plt said:
I think encountering "knickers" for panties in a story will throw almost any American reader out of the story.

I don't know, I think the word sounds very naughty/racy, I imagine sexy tap panty style things that a girl would wear on a date where she knows her beau is going to get lucky.

oggbashan · Aug 13, 2015

Carnevil9 said:
I once knew a man from Kent.

You know there are two definitions?

A Man/Maid of Kent was born South and East of the River Medway.

A Kentish Man/Maid was born North and West of the River Medway.

My daughters were born Maids of Kent.

I'm neither Kent nor Kentish since I was born in Wales. I am descended from several Maids of Kent but I have to go back to the 18th Century for them.

HandsInTheDark · Aug 14, 2015

Carnevil9 said:
"Moist" is a bad word now? What is the politically correct substitute, damp? Wet? Sopping?

As best I can tell, for the crowd in question, the politically correct version is Arid.

Screw political correctness.it should never be mentioned on an erotica site, except possibly as a belief held by victims in noncon stories.

coochiebarber · Aug 15, 2015

Those who hate Panties or Panty as a word, I wonder what they'd say about 'Thongs'.

I think its a little prudish. Solely, my opinion, though.

NaokoSmith · Aug 15, 2015

sr71plt said:
I think encountering "knickers" for panties in a story will throw almost any American reader out of the story.

TxRad said:
Not necessarily. I used the word several times in a story about an English woman on vacation in Dayton. No one said anything about it. Context and all that.

I have used 'panties' precisely because it sounded naughty and sexy and a little demeaning :devil:

However I have had requests from Americans to use 'knickers' as sounding exotic!

oggbashan said:
In Kent, women used to be told not to wear a Red Hat because locally "A red hat means no knickers", a signal that she is going commando and on the prowl.

The local branches of the Red Hat Society don't care!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Society

You only have to check my avatar to realise, that I am always 'all fur coat and no knickers'

AZMotherLover · Aug 16, 2015

I'm going to use "underbritches" in my stories from now on.

beachbum1958 · Aug 16, 2015

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TheeGoatPig · Aug 16, 2015

All I can think of when I hear the word Panties by itself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMwAnRzQn7M

49greg · Aug 17, 2015

TheeGoatPig said:
All I can think of when I hear the word Panties by itself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMwAnRzQn7M

I remember that one, hilarious!

PennLady · Aug 17, 2015

Late to this but -- I never use the word "panties" myself when speaking. It seems pretty juvenile. However, I would easily use it in a story if it seemed the right word.

Handley_Page · Aug 18, 2015

A brief bit of research seems to point at the word "Panties" being a fore-shortened form of "Pantaloon" (from the French (what else?)).

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