to hate the word "poorly"??

Oh yes. Conversation in an office I worked in.
"No, I'm sorry, you can't speak to Mr X, he's a bit poorly. No, I'm afraid we don't expect him in tomorrow. He's actually in a coma and unlikely to survive the week. Sorry."

My dp has said that in his childhood in Yorkshire , "poorly" could mean at death's door, but only when used in the sentence "Eeeeee, she were reet poorly"

Poorly used a plenty round here - Yorskhire.

However the word BELLY - now MIL will not allow this word at all, well not relating to people. She hates it and DH was not allowed to use it.

So what prompted this thread Bellyup? Are you having a dig at the husband of Jane Tomlinson, who was on FiveLive earlier on talking about her condition, by any chance?

(I am just asking by the way...)

Oh I'm so refreshed and inspired to find people as grumpy and intolerant as I am about something this petty.

WOW - Love this thread title - I too totally HATE HATE HATE the word poorly along with 'tummy'.

I have serious irritable bowel syndrome and I am often curled up in agony with my stomach for hours and hours, it makes me depressed and housebound and I have a friend who texts me and says 'aww, have you got a poorly tummy again?' or 'how's your poorly tummy today' ARGH!! makes me want to punch her!

'poorly' is so wet and dithery and babyish, in fact I don't even like using it for my 3mth old baby who is my MIL described today as 'poorly' - he's not poorly, he's 'a bit off colour'

ooo don't set me off ranting about poorly and tummy....

(realise i obviously have 'issues' - lol!)

bobsmum - I use peel wally as well, and so does my mum. She also uses "hingin", or "hingy" if the DSes, or my neice are grizzly and obviously coming down with something

I love poorly. Our cousin in Dumfries used to say I am feeling awfy poorly today or I am awfy no weel

And peelly wally

and fankle/pish/steamin/howfin/napper etc etc

I love the word poorly. Dp is an emetophobe and I use the word "poorly" as a gentle way of letting her know the boys have/are just about to throw up, so she can get out of the way! It's also such a gentle word that it's nice to use with ds's when they're feeling... poorly!

i wouldn't use 'poorly'. agree 'ill' is really bad and 'scik' means puking but you can always say 'not feeling well' and i may even stretch to 'under the weather!' (whatever that means). But poorly to me is a word you have to have been brought up using as a child, and we never had it in our family.

and peallywally, bobsmum, don't forget that...

I am introducing "Wabbit" back into my vocab after 5 years in exile in the SE where I had to speak English as a second language

When dd (4) has a cut or a graze somewhere she points to it as says "look I've got a poorly".

When I'm poorly I lie on the settee. But if I can redeem myself in the posh or not stakes, it's tummy not belly and bottom not bum.

I like the word "poorly".
It is useful for describing Manflu.
"Oh dear XX is poorly bad." (said in whiny voice for maximum sarcastic effect)

I don't use it.

When I was a youngster (and dinosaurs roamed the earth) I had to be at deaths door before it was admitted I was unwell, let alone have time off school. I was off school about twice I think. I am slightly less hard on my own

'Poorly' sounds a bit wet and drippy.

I recently overheard dd1 playing doctors with her best friend:

DD1: I'm feeling poorly.
Friend: What kind of poorliness have you got?

No to poorly /Paawwaly
yes to settee
yes to ain't
no to tummy

was that all?

Not a huge great big fan of 'poorly', but hearing Peter Rabbit used it makes it that tiny bit more comforting.

For me it's always 'ill' - guess I am a hypochondriac .

Sick is always used as a precursor for vomit in my family. (sorry if TMI).

And settee is just wrong, it's got to be sofa.

i use wabbit, means the same as peaky in my book.

Bobsmum, I remember my mum taking me to the GP and telling her I was "wabbit". She was English and had no idea what that meant. She asked if I was juts a bit "paaaaaawly" and my mum had no idea what she meant! I've never actually heard anyone say it in real life (apart from that GP obviously).

I'm wih Aimsmum on this one. I'm from Glasgow and grew up only ever hearing "poorly" on the TV, but of course the way it was pronouced "Paaaaawly" so I wasn't actually sure what it was supposed to mean.

I don't like it either and had never thought anyone else would feel strongly about it- - so thank you AGBU .

See, I love the word settee. It sounds so comfy. Sofa sounds, well, a bit 'interiors' to me. A settee is definitely comfier than a sofa. Possibly a bit more saggy and well-used as well. And definitely not made out of black leather.

We use poorly. Well, more like MT's poo-lee.

Ranging in severity.....

Poorly
Proper poorly
Ill
Man-flu.

allgonebellyup, haven't read the whole thread, but I hate it too , always have, and yet I do find myself using it sometimes since it does somehow sound less dramatic and desperate than 'ill', which is too much to describe my DC when they have nothing more than a slight fever with a heavy cold for example.
My, what an entirely humourless post I've just written...