to not like the word 'c**t' being used as a 'cool' insult by celebrities

[Bouncealot]

Am I at odds with the world or stuck in a time warp where people don't use this word as an insult, but as anglo-saxon for the beautiful female body part used for sex and procreation? Since when do men and women think it's ok to appropriate the best part of the female body to mean the worst of humanity? And no, I don't think it is the same as the analogy of black people owning the 'n' word. Be interested in people's thoughts.

i knew this thread would reference Glasgow
i'm in glasgow too and its true, cunt is a nice word and 'pal' or 'mate' are more likely to be insults.

We might say 'any cunt coming out tonight?' or 'hes a sound cunt' and although it is a vile word it doesn't even register because we don't use it in that way

I did say what the fuck does your made up word mean.

She didn’t make it up. confused

And all words are “made up”
Indeed they are, I honestly thought it was a word like 'whatnot' that my SIL uses in every conversation.

I'm happy to be corrected and accept every day teaches you something new!

Butchy

I would use fanny. And fud. Or fandan

Not to my doctor but in a jokey context

@AssignedPuuurfectAtBirth I would too. I wouldn’t let my bairns say it though! (Or day it in front of them)

Say not day. Bloody autocorrect!

I agree Smeddum, I wouldn't say it in front of my kids. But I wouldn't say 'fuck' in front of them either and I say that a lot.

So do I I remember at work years ago one of the women I worked with said I had the face of an angel and the gub of a navvy! She was laughing when she said it, she had the same gub!

I would use fanny. And fud. Or fandan

Not to your three year old as a descriptor for vagina, one hopes.

I like fud. It’s short, to the point, and it confuses the sassanachs.

Not familiar with fandan.

Fud is a belter of a word! But no, I wouldn’t tell my 4 year old that she had one.

Anyone remember the Irn Bru “long line of fannies” advert?

No butchy, it's all penis and vaginas in this household. Sorry... vulvas

Oh yes Smeddum. I love the word fanny

It's a derogatory word for a woman, that's the long and short of it. It's one of the few swear words I would get angry at hearing. It's horrible and people who use it are word challenged or just plain disgusting.

I was heavily pregnant with DD at the time, I loved it!

I have learned my lesson and not to think some words are local lingo.
So I looked up gub snedum
Where the women white Australians?

en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/gub

Just joking!! I know you mean mouth really. In my neck of the woods the slang is 'gob'. That was a word we weren't allowed to use in front of um when we were kids.

Are you making up words by consistently butchering my username? Because it’s Smeddum. Another non-made up word, it’s Scots.

Oops typo on my last post, I meant 'mum' not 'um'
By the way 'gub' is a derogatory term. Clearly not in the way *Smedum' used it but it just goes to show the same word can have different meanings and cause different types of offence.

Thought you weren't engaging with me?

Gub is how I pronounce gob. As do many (but not all) Scots.

You’re not as funny as you think you are, and the “trying to be funny after being really offensive” trick isn’t working. As you were.

'Geggie' is better, as in 'shut yer'

Ooh I’d forgotten about geggie! I can’t abide shut yer puss for some reason though.

It's derogatory in Australia, but not everywhere!

It also means 'stuff' usually stuff with some value, possibly stolen, shortening of gubbins.

But I would have to warn you all that it should not be used in Scrabble, the official Scrabble dictionary doesn't include it

Gub is how I pronounce gob. As do many (but not all) Scots
That's how I pronounce it as well. I write it as gob though.

You’re not as funny as you think you are, and the “trying to be funny after being really offensive” trick isn’t working. As you were.
You have made a assumption that I was trying to be funny, light hearted maybe but not funny. I wasn't trying to be offensive towards you Clearly you have took offence though.

I'm sorry I got your name wrong. I'm scrolling up and down my iPad trying to keep up with the conversations and explain what I meant and I made a mistake. It wasn't done on purpose.

Finally ..As you were. As I was what?

curious yes, I saw that it was offensive in Australia. That's what I meant about many words meaning different things to different people.

We use the gubbins very occasionally, thinking about it, it was my mum's and nan's generation that used it. I hadn't seen it used in the context of stolen stuff though, just meaning bits and pieces of things.

I hate it as a swear word.

It may be a Scouse thing! Gubs are definitely illicitly gained goods. Gubbins are general 'things'.

Q: Aye la! What's the gubs?
A: Bifters and gegs...
Q: G'wed soft lad. They're well jarg!

or

Q: Hello, what is that you have?
A: Cigarettes and sunglasses
Q: Oh do behave, silly boy, they're all fake!