What words were banned in your household growing up?

[TazzyDrunk]

If anything

Heard most families had banned word list ,what was on yours growing up?

Fart! My mum still doesn’t like us saying it. Even though we all swear like troopers. I remember once crying after my sis said she was going to tell my mum I said fart and she happened to come in the room “I said far, I said FAR!” 🤣

Fart , god , belly button ,

We didn’t have a list but swearing tended got an eye roll and a sigh from DM.

All the swear words plus anything bodily eg fart, boobs, willy, fanny. There were no words for those things actually, they were unmentionable.

'cow' - as an insult (we were allowed to refer to cattle as cows )

Fart

Pub! I had to say Public House.
Telly - only TV or television allowed.

ITV

It was common.

Oxter (spelling?). Mum would go made if we said it.

Belly, poo, Fart, bum, couch, lounge

All swear words. I'm 50 and have still not sworn in front of my parents 😄

What is oxter?

“For Christ’s sake” was not allowed. Most of the other “sakes” were ok.

The phrase “I wasn’t talking to you” was strictly forbidden.

"Shut up"

Even now hearing it I am

Telly, belly, toilet, lounge, serviette, bum, sex, nanny ( for grandmother)

Contraceptive. My mum threatened to wash my mouth out with soap.

How times have changed !

TSS - I thought we were the only ones who weren’t allowed to watch ITV.

No words were banned but I was taught from on early age about the difference of swearing and swearing at people. The latter was not acceptable.

“Mum” or any variant of it.

My mum divorced my dad and he never got over it. We was young at the time and when he asked us what we had been up to.. if we said something like “mum took us to the cinema” he would get absolutely irate and warn us never to speak of her under his roof.

It was horrendous. He’s remarried and happy again now so we have a good relationship but it hasn’t been without it’s troubles.

Mooserp

A Scottish term for armpit or underarm.

Fart - we had to say bottom burp!

Anal as in anally retentive.

Can't. I was not allowed to say "I can't do xyz" as in I could not achieve xyz. To my parents, it just meant I was not working hard enough (Tiger Parents circa 1980s)

Blasphemy of any kind - and "hate" (my GP lived with us and my GP had had a bad war and would get incandescent with rage if anyone "hated" anything - "you don't know what hate is!") plus "stuffed", "knackered", any "foul" language - and as you might have noticed from this post, a lot of words had implied quotation marks

We also did Number 2s, rather than any other euphemism for defecation!

The usual swear words plus bloody, knackered, fart, hell, crap, telling someone to die/that you wished they were dead, calling others stupid, and other's I've probably forgotten.

As an adult I was shocked at all the words and phrases my husband's family used freely with each other. Funny how different families can be!