Is bloody hell swearing?

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I think it's a soft swear word but DH says it's not swearing at all.

Just wondering what the majority think?

(I'm not comparing with other swear words fyi)

Yes.

Would he say in front of a vicar or a priest? If the answer is 'no', then it's swearing 😂

Well there's definitely worse swearing but it's still swearing and I wouldn't find it acceptable coming from a child (also wouldn't say it in front of a child).

Yes, it is swearing. Bloody is a contraction of By Our Lady.

My grandma thinks it's a swear word, I don't think it is though!

But it is, historically. You thinking otherwise doesn't make it so.

Wtf hahaha

I remember my sister once telling ME to shut up and my dad telling me off saying he never wanted me to hear that language from me again 🤣🤣🤣

Of course it's swearing.

@Johnnysgirl before 1750 it wasn't a swear word at all, then it became one, words evolve

It's swearing 😂
It's become far less offensive, certainly, but then "fuck" is relatively inoffensive to most people these days (in a non agressive context, anyway); it hasn't and won't ever evolve out of being a swear word.

I remember our primary school French teacher telling someone off for saying ‘shut up’ and that was 1979. I accept her swear radar may have been oversensitive though 😂. Back in those days they still taught ‘Zut alors’ as a sort of expletive in French text books and I think that’s the French equivalent of ‘By Jove’ or ‘Blast and botheration’.

I think ‘crap’ seems to have moved up the swear scale in my lifetime. I remember when that was a very mild colloquialism for rubbish.

Shut up is an aggressive thing to say, rather than an outrageous swear word. It's actually quite unpleasant.

Yes. I wouldn't say it in front of children.

If you wouldn't use it in an interview setting, then imo it is.

Are you perfectly sure that it isn't regarded as offensive by some people?

Sorry, no of course not. I was clumsily making the point that just because most people considered it relatively mild; it hadn't "evolved" from being a swear word.
Or blasphemy.

I honestly don't know anyone who wouldn't regard it as a swear word.

i don't think it swearing but the school thinks it do i said it in school and they said it is so i'm i in the worry😕

I'd say it was swearing. Would your husband be happy if his children's teacher said it to them?

Definitely swearing.

There are worse things you can say of course but I wouldn't class this as "mild swearing" more mid-range.