Panties and knickers, do they give you the 'ick'?

[Britva415]

I wanted to use squick, a term I've recently learned here on Lit, but I can't figure out how to put it in a sentence.

"It squicks you."

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Not a euphemism, but an onomatopoeia.

For something other than bedsprings

That was actually my first comment on squick. Post #60, I believe... Great minds and all that...
...

 

[MrPixel]

I've heard a totally different and much grosser etymology. My impression is that the portmanteau is... Like a backronym, but for portmanteaus.

Possibly. However, I found it in several online dictionaries, one offering "squirm" and "ick", but most with "squeamish" as the root.

 

[Britva415]

That was actually my first comment on squick. Post #60, I believe... Great minds and all that...
...

It's the onomatopoeia for the sound of a brutal act described in Full Metal Jacket.

 

[TheLobster]

"It squicks you."

"Squicky wheel gets the grease," obviously.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

It's the onomatopoeia for the sound of a brutal act described in Full Metal Jacket.

Or other rigid objects penetrating soft, supple, moist flesh, perhaps violently...

 

[AG31]

Yea, in America, they're panties. I wear panties and I've never known another woman who didn't also wear panties. No ick whatsoever.

This American doesn't wear them.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

This American doesn't wear them.

Pray tell, what does 'this American' wear?

 

[AG31]

Pray tell, what does 'this American' wear?

Underwear/underpants. I wish we had a word like knickers.

 

[AG31]

Four pages in less than 24 hours. This is such a great place!!!!

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Underwear. I wish we had a word like knickers.

What's wrong with the word panties; too childish, to sexualized, just don't like that it starts with the letter 'p'? I am actually interested in your answer.

I'm asking because I love the word as to me it embodies femininity and also sexualizes it. but, again, for me, both of those things that I crave, so...

 

[AG31]

What's wrong with the word panties; too childish, to sexualized, just don't like that it starts with the letter 'p'? I am actually interested in your answer.

I'm asking because I love the word as to me it embodies femininity and also sexualizes it. but, again, for me, both of those things that I crave, so...

Too childish.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Too childish.

Fair enough.

 

[ADirtyPerv]

I'm asking because I love the word as to me it embodies femininity and also sexualizes it.

That's an interesting way to phrase that, and I totally agree. Even if knickers was a more common word, I can't see it having the same magic. A long, slow tease, just a glimpse of the knickers... Eh. You can't whisper it at all.

 

[JGittes]

I'm a bit late to this party, but I had to post the lyrics to one of Mason Williams' songs. (He did Classical Gas about a hundred years ago.)

There was once a prince who acted strangely in that
He thought life was stupid and it was for him so
He made up a world in which he liked the things we liked
But he had different reasons why he liked them

He liked butter for its color
He would order toast and color
Waitresses, confused would utter
Sir, I've never heard of toast and color

He'd get angry and begin to choke them
The law would come, and they'd arrest and book him
So his life was a mess of trouble
Still he kept it up

He had dogs, a hundred cocker spaniels and he
Called them panties, 'cause they did that mostly, and he
Did not care at all if they would bark and fetch sticks
Run and jump, roll over, and play dead tricks

No, he liked them only for their panting
So he would run them ragged, but one day they got fed up
And chased the prince right up against the fence
And the prince was eaten by his panties

 

[onehitwanda]

Whereas, go to Essex and "Show us ya cunt, ya mole," illustrates the last point.

 

[onehitwanda]

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I worked with a couple of Essex girls once upon a time. It was an education.

One of them came into the office one day on her phone, hung up on the call, walked directly over to the sales desk and announced: "Are any of you lads up for shagging my sister? She's a bit down."

Another ended the day by announcing "Right, I'm off home to let me rat out."

 

[stickygirl]

Well I got wet to me icky knickers in my way home ( and it was from the outside in )

( to be technical, it was the back of my jeans, because I wear a coat, but why spoil a good story? And, if I'd fallen over, then yes, soggy knickers. Soggy panties, never! )

 

[stickygirl]

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Interesting factoid is that Sean had only just been cast in the role and didn't know his lines. They were written on a note on his knee for this scene.
"One does not simply learn one's lines. One cheats'

 

[Britva415]

 

[nice90sguy]

I would never sniff my wife's knickers unless I was about to do a laundry wash. But her panties, on the other hand...

 

[Astrotrain]

I'll come out and say it: I'm a guy and I find the word "panties" inherently arousing. If it gives you the ick fair enough, but what's annoying is I've seen people say that it makes a guy inherently creepy. We all have our different turn ons and turn offs.

 

[dirk2024]

A search for 'panties' on Amazon yielded

1-48 of over 40,000 results for "panties"​

 

[ElectricBlue]

Interesting factoid is that Sean had only just been cast in the role and didn't know his lines. They were written on a note on his knee for this scene.
"One does not simply learn one's lines. One cheats'

Marlon Brando had all his lines in The Godfather and Apocalypse Now stuck on the back of props. He might have been a method actor, but must have had a rubbish memory.

 

[kreemi_pi]

"Underpants" is the one I'm not crazy about. Maybe because to me it includes men's "tighty whities."

"Underwear" is ok but not too exciting.

"Panties" always sounded fine to me (I'm American), and if women talk about panties in earshot of men, the men usually seem to get all excited. If you tell a male co-worker you need to leave ontime because you need to go to Victoria's Secret to shop for panties, he'll probably offer to help you get your work done.

Thong, bikini briefs, boy shorts are subsets of panties. They add specifity and are also hotter to say.

Undies? Maybe. Can be used in writing to avoid being repetitive.

"Lingerie," to me, is reserved for...let's call it romance. Not necessarily sexual...it starts with finer, fancier underwear worn under dressier clothes, and ranges into straight-up single purpose fuckwear.