to think that 'goolies' is not a rude word

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DH seemed genuinely shocked that I said the word 'goolies' in front of our friends and their children today. It's no worse than 'bum' in my view. I didn't think it was at all bad other than maybe saying it in front of great auntie Alice. Aibu?

I haven't heard 'goolies' since I was about 11!
But I don't think it's very rude. Maybe on a par with busties or boobies, or tackle, or maybe even front-bottom.
Thanks for making me smile :)

"Off with their goolies!", anyone else remember Not the 9 o'clock News?

Goolies! I use this word every so often with DS because it makes him laugh so much. Not a rude word in my house.

"Off with their goolies!", anyone else remember Not the 9 o'clock News?

Yep.

Goolies.....not used that word since primary school, and it invariably was preceded by "kicked in the...."

I wouldn't use it, but then I wouldn't say "trump" or "boobies" either.

Is "fanny" the female equivalent?

Goolies is funny, fanny is a prim, unfunny nickname I think. Similar, but not the same.

According to my dictionary it's 'vulgar slang'.

I wouldn't use it in front of children but then I doubt I'd use it at all. It seems a bit ... I don't know ... like something a 10 year old would say, not an adult.

You should have said "Miss Hoolies"

We use 'nads' lots in this house. Their are four pairs so we deffo need something to describe them, .

Ds1's first sentence was 'mummy, why are you wiping my goolies?' during a nappy change some time before his second birthday.

I was slightly nonplussed. Clever enough to ask, but not clever enough to know there was crap all over them. And still more than boggled as to where he might have picked up the term.

Not particularly rude. As someone else said, on a par with boobies or chesticles....

I find it incredibly offensive.

From now on, can we please write glies? And, for that matter, bm and btty.

Not really.

My dp's nephew's say "nuggets", as in " he got me right in the nuggets! ", which I find delightful. Such imaginative use of English.

Oh god, flashback!

I remember years ago we were about 7, sitting in a circle at school
Or some school-related thing, singing gin gan goolie which incidentally autocorrect wants to call gin ham Google and we were doing actions, which required tickling your chin and head when you sang the goolie goolie goolie bit.

The next chorus we had to do that to the person next to you.

I got home and calmly explained how fun it was to 'goolie' Tom. I couldn't understand why my mum spat her tea out

I think it's an ok word to use. But different folk have different takes.
My DH hates the word fart, but thinks quim is an ok work to use in scrabble. With the kids. And his mum!!
I use the word cow all the time. My mum almost passes out.
And as for fanny, my American friends think it hilarious when my face goes .
I tell them they are being asses they reciprocate the but fail to laugh.

Lacking in a funny bone I think.

Or it's up their....

Goolies bollies nads test-i-clay (last one from little Britain) and sometimes if something has gone seriously wrong, an "oh BOLLOCKS" is the appropriate term.

Have you heard about the Ooohmagoolies bird?

It's a bird without any legs

So every time he lands he squawks 'oohmagoolies'!!

It's better than saying 'my privates'

Fanny up here has changed all meaning - we use it to mean a stupid person. Also saying 'fannying aboot/aroon' meaning stop mucking about. So not at all rude.

Goolies I have only ever heard one person say, that was my GP who was advising me to kick someone in them . Probably not rude but most people I know wouldn't know what you meant. I work in an environment where I am confronted with them all day and we call them - bits, privates or balls. Or if I need the message to sink in quickly 'would you please remove your hand from your testicles?!'.. Have met someone who called them his sponges, bless him.