Jump to content
Existing user? Sign In

Sign In



Sign Up

Knickers or Panties?


Recommended Posts

Knickers and panties are basically synonymous, with knickers being much more of a British word and panties being used much more in the states.

Personally I find the word 'knickers' being just a bit more erotic when used in a sexual/omorashi context, such as when a girl says something like "I'm gunnu wet my knickers in a minute" as she squirms around and holds herself.

As a Brit I am more use to hearing the word "knickers".  In school I would hear other kids say things like "Did you hear about Kirsty? She wet her knickers in Ms Stephens' class." Presumably this is where my preference comes from.

How about you guys?

Link to comment

With english not beeing my mother tongue I don't really prefer one word over the other. But if I had to choose one, it'd probably pick "panty" because I'm definitely more used to read this word. When it comes to porn genres "panty wetting" is a more common expression than "knicker wetting". Therefore I think that "panty" has a more sexy touch. Besides all that, when it comes to phonetics I also find this word more pretty.

 

Link to comment
23 minutes ago, Jeffery Mewtamer said:


That said, while I get the impression knickers might be a general term for underpants, I've never heard the term panties used except for styles of underpants typically worn by women. I'm also use to the term undies covering both panties and men's briefs.

In Australia at least, I won't try and guess about the rest of the Commonwealth, "knickers" is strictly a term for women's underwear. Undies does work for both men and women though. 

Link to comment

I'd say knickers but then I'm English. Even so knickers has a slightly old fashioned feel about it these days - it's the sort of word my grandmother would have used. But I can't bring myself to say "panties" - it is a very American word, to my ears at least. 

To be honest I don't actually have a good word in my vocabulary for these ladies undergarments.

for men I'd say pants but this is obviously a little confusing for our friends in the USA who say pants when they mean trousers. 

Are there any words we can use unambiguously for all English-speaking nations that distinguish between male and female underwear?

Link to comment

Growing up on the west coast of the USA, my primary cultural influences were from California and Hollywood.  I had never even heard the word "knickers" until I was an early teen.  Even though, I had no idea what that word even meant.  Some how, in my early adolescent mind, I determined that "knickers" referred to some kind of British snack food, much like crumpets, which I also didn't really have any clue what they were.

It was only a few years later, when I got online and started reading stories about women wetting their knickers that I started to figure out that they weren't talking about peeing on their food and that knickers were some kind of garment. Still, I imagined knickers being some kind of a giant, very European, Renaissance era garment.  It took me a while to figure out that when I read the word "knickers" in these stories that the writer was referring what I just considered regular women's panties.

Link to comment

Some great responses and TVGuy did amuse me very much :)

I now remember that I asked the same question a few years ago on another forum.  Then it was for a practical reason.  I was writing an omorashi novel and wanted to know which word, knickers or panties, would appeal most to a general audience.  Being British I much prefer to hear the word 'knickers' used in an omorashi context, and used that word when I was writing it to keep my arousal up and produce the best erotica that I could.  For example:

Everyone was staring at her.  She was painfully desperate for the toilet.  It was going to happen in her knickers any second and the damn classroom door was stuck.  She     made one last effort, one last frantic pull on the door handle.  Then it happened.  

and 

Tammy pulled her wet knickers up over her burning buttocks then reluctantly she stripped off her blouse and kicked off her soaking wet shorts.  Her pee had cooled now, so at least her wet knickers took some of the throbbing heat out of her bottom.

 

Then I reluctantly did a search and replace.

 

In case anyone is interested, it's called The Puddle Club: Permission Denied and stretches to over 84,000 words. It's a complete novel, not just a set of stories.

Link to comment
2 hours ago, Pee Tee said:

When I was growing up in England, (in the days of Yore!) we generally said that boys wore underpants and girls wore knickers, so for me it is wetting knickers that turns me on the most, but panties comes a close second.

We used to call underpants just pants, and I still do, but I guess we started using the word underpants because of Americans calling trousers pants. 

I'm happy enough with either knickers or panties for womens' underwear but I generally use panties on forums like this as I think it is more internationally understood. But reading the replies here it seems as though knickers is generally preferred in the commonwealth countries. Is knickers reasonably well understood in the USA?

Link to comment
10 minutes ago, nappypants said:

I like "knickers" better, "panties" is just too American... a bit like "nappy" vs. "diaper", it's the word you grew up with. The more unisex British usage of "pants" for underwear is also fine.

I agree about knickers, but as i stated in my post the word panties sounds silly in my accent but i actually prefer the word diaper over nappy even though nappy is the word i grew up with. Don't know why, just do :)

Link to comment

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
×
  • Create New...