AIBU to think that 'bloody' isn't a proper swearword?

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Should you get in trouble for saying bloody at work or at school? Same as if you said f*ck or something?

To me it is still a swear word although a mild one..

Depends where and who you work for. I would be able to say both in some work contexts, but neither in others. Have to gauge the situation, really.

Are you referring to somewhere specific?

It’s not a fucking swear word anyone that thinks it’s is either old or a fucking pussy that only listens to radio edit music.

Of course it is. I dont swear except in emergencies and wouldn't say it.

It has always been a swear word or to be more specific a blasphemy. Milder than many but it is still swearing.

To me it’s definitely a swear word and I would hate to hear my dc say it.

No, I wouldn't either.

Though I suppose it is not proper and polite language. It'll depend on how proper you or the listening audience is as the whether if even registers.

It’s definitely a swear word as means ‘by our lady’ I think so blasphemous just like omg’ as you’d swear an oath on religious ideas

On the other hand f c s c t* etc are bad language not swearing as are Anglo Saxon (mainly) uses for sex or toilet stuff

*gets pedants box to sit in :)

Yes, it's a swear word and yes, you should get in trouble for using it at work or school. There are c. 170,000 words in the English language so it's not fucking hard to find an alternative (should you wish to ).

To me it is a very mild swear word. Some teachers might tell a child off for saying it. I've never worked with anyone who would bat an eyelid if someone said it. I say it.

Yes. my parents always said it stood for by your lady and came from the Elizabethan times - I've not checked if that's correct and I would never use the word and I don't swear or very rarely.

Ah Squeeks beat me to it...

Mild compared with some, but still inappropriate to say in front of children, or for children to use in front of teachers.

It is a swear word, there’s a few non-swear decoy words to stand in for it, like blooming/blummin/blimmin/blasted etc.

Yes it’s a swear word, although milder than shit or fuck

I would say it to colleagues that I’m friendly with at work but not to the big boss and not to customers.

But I wouldn’t bat an eyelid if a customer said it to me

Yes it is. Less offensive than some others perhaps but I wouldn't expect it to be used in school or in a business meeting (unless everyone knew each other well).

To me it's really not. I had no idea so many people considered it a proper swear word.

its a blasphemy, it mean "by our lady" as in Mary, mother of Christ.

it could actually be considered far more offensive than fuck, which means violent rape

Wow, never knew it’s meaning! To me it’s mild. I tell dd off if she says it though.

So a Christian would find it offensive.

Just seen an article, Brit Language: Ten tips to swear like a Brit and it said

If something goes wrong and you need a handy profanity, try “oh blast it!”, “fiddlesticks”, or “bloody hell” instead of the predictable.

I quite like Fiddlesticks

Since when did “fuck” mean violent rape? Not according to that bastion of truth (!) Wiki.

Apparently “bloody” being a derivation of By Our Lady is disputed too.

My test for this is always ‘the public speaking test.’

Imagine you are giving a public talk in front of a crowd in a formal setting- a presentation at work say. Would the word be appropriate in the talk?

If not, it’s a swear, however mild.

What does the word bleedin' mean when used as a swear word? No one's ever been able to tell me this, when I worked at a charity shop I had some volunteers in their 70s and 80s and they said it was the 'worst' swear word even though they did use it a lot
I asked them if it was a put down to women...ie periods..they didn't know..

How is it a derivative of 'by our lady'? Seems interesting, I've never heard that before, always just taken it to be about blood.

I understood it to be from God’s blood?