What words were banned in your household growing up?

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If anything

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

All swear words. We were not allowed to swear. Ever.

‘Bored’ forbidden and resulted in an instruction to tidy our bedroom.
‘You smell,, still banned now as DSis still reacts like a child to it, ‘muuuuummmm, she said it, make her stop!’

We weren't allowed to say 'fart' or use any swear words. And yes to not being allowed to watch ITV because it was 'common'.

Bored
Toilet
Fart
Mum/Dad

Bizarrely we were allowed to use mild swear words.

We weren’t allowed to say Pig.

Weirdly that’s my pet name for my DP now - I’ve only just made that connection

We weren't allowed to say we hated each other (or anyone else or anything)
No 'oh my G*d' (still feel wrong/can't say it now!)
Definitely no swearing and no shut up

My nan hated the word sex. Insisted it was vulgar and only "sexual intercourse" was ok. She said only vulgar people had tv with porn on. I pointed out that as she had freeview she had some rude channels. She insisted she did not. I put them on for her and she watched with genuine interest for 10 minutes. Was hilarious.

Nothing really. Before we hit about 13 swearing was frowned upon (other then crap and bloody) but after that, they didn't mind. We have an amazing relationship which is built in good humoured banter and insults - my dad and I regularly have competitions to come up with the best insults for one another! However, we all knew that we weren't to use particular words in front of our grandmother, not to swear at school or in the playground and to be respectful of who was around if we used bad language - if there were young kids, older people etc, it was a no.

Pregnant . You used the word expecting. Ironically the most oft used word in that house was cunt. Wouldn't dream of using that word now I'm older and away from home.

Hate, my parents said it was a very strong word, I was only allowed to say I don't like, never hate an.d I still keep to that rule today

Weggie no idea why

Liar- we had to say "I don't think that's correct"

Bored- would get us washing up duty for 24 hours

Sanitary towel/tampon was ladies' special cotton wool.

When I was very small, my dad told me that Polo (like the mint) was a very, very rude word that only adults should say and even then it was a bit shocking and could only be excused if the adult had hammered their thumb, hit their head on an open cupboard door etc. I can still remember the joy I felt in saying it to myself and also in telling my mum that Daddy had said a very bad word but I couldn't tell her which one as it was so bad!

When I was about seven, I changed schools and apparently learnt all the swear words on my first day in the new school. My mum went though them and gave me an explanation of what each one meant. She said it was my choice to use those words or not but I should think about what it meant before saying it and also expect to be challenged about whether I remembered what it meant and why I thought that word was appropriate to use. I haven't used any of them since.

"I'm starving' - my parents were immigrants from a very poor country, and they really knew what hunger was. We didn't.

"Knackered" was banned, as was "blimey" apparently it means "God blind me" and of course all swear words. I remember when my younger brother was about 12 he said "cunt" in my mine and our mother's presence 3 or 4 times (obviously didn't know what it meant but must have heard it from a friend or something). He used it in a positive way like "And then Billy scored a goal for our team. Oh ya cunt!" She only heard him the last time and went nuts telling him what a disgusting word it was and he must never say it again. He might have gotten grounded or some other punishment too. He was quite confused haha.

I also remember in primary school we had a teacher who was quite religious and she banned us from reading aloud words like "Oh God" or "for God's sake" from our book during reading group. So you had to ignore that bit and move on to the next part of the sentence.

Hate

Bum, fart, crap were all really bad words..... To this day, in our late 40s, my siblings and I still enjoy trying to make each other swear in front of our parents.

Balls.

We had a dog who knew what a ball was and went mental if she heard the word. Had to say "sphere" instead.

I was largely brought up by my DM and DGM! If we said we were bored we would be told 'Only boring people get bored'. I have repeated this to my DC so much that DS cuts out the middle man person and says 'I'm boring'.

DGM used to make swear words uninteresting to us by saying to us as toddlers/young children 'Say buggar'. DM probably was not impressed but DGM was the stronger person.

All the usuals plus “Oh my god”, “shut up” and “mum” - mummy and mother were fine but mum could not be used - made for awkward teenage years when friends came over.

I once tried out saying bog roll s a variant on loo roll, and got shot down for it.

Fart was very rude
Crap was a swear word
Liar! We had to say fibber
gods sake- not religious but apparently it sounded common

Obviously this was when I was a kid, I've stood in the kitchen this evening and told my mum someone she works with is a rude cu*t and she didn't bat an eye

Absolutely no swearing or blasphemy. Even words like “damn” would have been shocking. My parents didn’t like “hate” as in I hate cabbage. Oh and offensive terms for people. I won’t use them here but they were fairly commonly used in the 60s.

My granny hated the word poo. It was called a bizzi. Got ripped for it in brownies when I was 7. Another one was front and back bottom. I'm the total opposite with DS. Everything is strictly penis or vagina. Poo is poo. Granny would probably be turning in her grave to see me

Sleazebag.

Fart, bum, arse, still not allowed and I'm 38.