The word 'Lush' :shudders:

[User2005103]

AIBU to really dislike that word and be sick of everyone (mainly chavvy people, sorry...:gets ready for backlash:) banding it around on FB all the time?!

Maybe I'm just unlucky and it's only people I am friends with, but it seems to be the only adjective a lot of people on my FB can use nowadays.

It's always 'Lush meal out for our anniversary' 'Lush day out with the kiddies today' 'Look at my new dog, isn't he Lush'

Arghhh, I just hate it! Also on the list at the moment is 'Bubba' 'Kiddies' and 'Little Man'

Yes, I probably am BU!

I've gone from everything being " cheers muh that's gert lush" to ansom or ideal.

I still loves a go on the slider mind, as long as there ain't no stingers at the bottom.

Oh and in this country (Cornwall) we smooth the cat, in Bristawl we smooves the cat.

in Bristawl we smooves the cat.
Absolutely Eau. I did say that early . Definitely smooving the cat/dog whatever. I don't realise I say that until it's pointed out to me .

I don't say smoove the cat myself, but I wouldn't even register that a person hadn't said stroke, or pat, I would understand instantly. My Gran always said smoove.

YABU. I am Welsh and now live in the West Country, so lush is a word I use frequently. I never use gawjus, hun, bubba etc. and am not "chavvy" at all.

If you think your FB friends are chavvy and don't like their use of language, unfriend or unfollow them.

English DH insists on correcting all my welsh-isms even though we've been back living in Wales for 4 years. His particular bugbears are
Daps
Now-in-a-minute (even though it is the perfect phrase for me as I am rather more laid back than him)
Twthpaste
Curtins
Sospan
Potching
Scram (to mean scratch)
By yer
And lots of others.
I say mun, but not butt or duw. But I was called posh at school though - I'm really not!

Down here we say 'wel duw, duw' all the time.

And we even da's the cat/dog.

I find myself exhaling with "Duw duw" when I'm doing something irksome or arduous. Means "God" doesn't it?

In the 90s down south lush meant the opposite, so if something was horrible we would say it was lush.

In the 90s down south lush meant the opposite, so if something was horrible we would say it was lush.

Where to, wifeyhun? What area of the south?

I say it all the time it's popular here in Wales

My son has a "Gert lush" mug. Also, I wore daps in PE at school, transported in a draw-string "dap bag" made by Mum out of some old curtains! The snow "pitches" and no self respecting play park would be without a "slider"!

Facebook enrages me now!

• had an epic day / night / weekend
• it would be rude not to (obligatory picture of a gin/ vodka / wine)
• you ok Hun?
• having a cheeky McDonald's/ Chinese / Nando's / pizza
• it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas (with a picture of the Christmas tree / decorations filtered to fuck!)
• eats with the hubster (then a picture of the miserable fucking ass husband with a scowl on his bake because he's pissed off at letting his steak go cold so she can take a fucking photo)

Omg I'm so fucking grumpy!!!!

Mint, that's where I learnt all about Brizzle. Never actually heard 'Bristawl' til I moved here!

And whoever said about plimsolls not being known of in Devon, well we sure as hell never called them daps!

This thread has brought out a whole heap of locals!!

miniwookie I forgot potching! I potch about a lot.

My OH is regularly confused by my Welsh turns of phrase - he's originally NI and lived in England for years. Two that gave completely baffled him are 'he thought he was chocolate' (see also 'chocolate boys') and 'she was in her oils'.

Ah, potching! Forgotten that. I've spent all day potching round the house.

I was 55 when I learned that, actually, saucepan is not pronounced sospan.

I still don't know how to pronounce "Bluetooth"; is it bluetooooth or bluetwth?

Yep not chavvy but regional. Used a lot in wales as dialect.

I've never heard anyone use the word holibobs, only seen people complain about it on MN. Unless I've just been super lucky.

I'm from the West Country therefore and allowed to use both gurt and lush in the same sentence

I hardly ever hear it. I must have less chavvy friends than you op