To say knackered to my 2.5 year old dd?

[callmewhatever]

I generally say to my dd "you're knackered". But my dw has reprimanded me on numerous occasions stating that it's rude for a 2 year old to be saying this (she has said it before when she's been tired). I just assumed it was a normal turn of phrase but apparently I am wrong. So mn jury can we put it to you?

I was never allowed to say and I wouldn't now. I think it is almost swearing. It means tired after sex.

Well you learn something new everyday! I never knew it was anything other than another word to describe being tired!

My parents said it when I was growing up and I say it all the time!

It doesn't mean tired after sex!

Where has this idea even come from

Since when is 'buggered' not swearing?

It is as far as I'm concerned!

I think in some other countries it is very well removed from it's original meaning so as to be quite a mild curse.

And actually my parents both say "bugger" a lot and they wouldn't use a lot of other "language" IYSWIM.

I use 'knackered' all the time and have never heard any rude connotations before this thread

Going knacker drinking means going into a field and getting pissed, usually teenagers, like travellers used to drink around a fire wherever they set up camp.
I never heard the sex one before.

My Ma has a Death Stare™ would put Mary Berrys to shame.

Seriously I have friends who can still recall the Death Stare™ and shake at just the memory and we're all all in our 40s.

Buggered got the Death Stare™ knackered didn't, but calling travellers Knackers got Death Stare™ X 100.

Realise none of this helps the discussion just me rambling. . .

Oh and Ma is a dote really, though I think I might get the a Death Stare™ For drinking at lunch time. . . .

Well, all this sexual meaning of knackered is new to me and to the dictionaries I have consulted.

It was in a dictionary in the 1990s as tired of sex. I remember because I was told to look up the definition and use in context(along with other inappropriate words).

Nothing to do with sex. Goes back to the old Norse for horse and leather, which became an old term for saddle, and via dealers in horses' gear to people dealing in horses for meat/hides/hooves ie knackers yard. Thus worn out through hard work/overwork...fit only for the knacker's yard. The worn out through sex version seems to have appeared more recently in the USA.

Wellnow I have mastered the death stare for one of dd1s friends and refers to the group of girls as "Niggas". I don't allow words like that in my house and she gets a Death Stare and if not stopped asked to leave. Death Stare is usually enough .

I think the misconception that it means 'tired after sex' is why some think it a rude term, that and the fact that it is slang, which some people don't like.

It just means tired, worn out, or broken/not working anymore [when related to a thing and not a person]

Yes i would use knackered to describe something that was not working properly / broken as well as tiredness.

e.g. my old laptop is knackered (the battery has gone)

Clearly I do not think it has been all night fucking

That definition apart from being wrong doesn't even make sense!

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