To ask what 'rude words' you weren't allowed to say as a child?

[pinkelephantsanddietcoke]

Mine was 'Pee' or 'Poo'. Ridiculously unacceptable!

Stupid
Shut up
Fart

Our fannies were our "middles" and our periods were our "friend".

I actually couldn't even contemplate telling another human being that I was going for a poo... my mother would be horrified

Weren’t allowed to say fart (had to be ‘fluff’, ‘blow off’ or ‘break wind’), pee (had to say ‘wee’ or ‘piddle’). Bloody, crap or any of the other more severe swear words were out of bounds. Weren’t allowed to say fanny (had to say ‘foof’) and willy was the only acceptable alternative for penis. Poo and bum were fine. Knackered was also off limits for the same sex reason someone mentioned up thread.

Hilariously, once we were late teens and up we all swore a lot. Especially my Mum. I don’t know how she was holding it in all those years!

OTOH my mum lived saying peeeeerioddd. Just to make sure everyone knew she was modern and uninhibited

We weren't allowed to say wee.
It had to be weewee.

@pinkelephantsanddietcoke

Another one who was banned from saying fart, and had to use 'pump' instead. And ditto to everyone looking at us like !

Knackered, because it was slang for how an unmarried woman feels after having sex.

Rubber. I had to say eraser.

My Gran doesn't like the word fart either. Still can't say it in front of her and I'm in my 30s now! It has to be Pump or Bacharach

My Nan used to sing "yohoho and a bottle of rum, I fell over and I hurt my bum" and I used to think she was SO rude!

I wasn't allowed to say ANY of the rude words mentioned above and I'm always amazed that I went to school or out with friends and swore like a trooper all day but the minute you stepped through your back door those swear words just dropped out of your vocabulary. I never once let anything slip out by mistake.

I grew up with my grandparents who were 1930's born.

We didn't even acknowledge farting let alone use a word for it.

And front fucking bottom. It was front bottom.

I'm sure there was a lot more; but those are the 2 I really remember.

Knackered
Div
Pillock (sp?)
What? (Had to be pardon)
Pee or piss (my brothers as I hate these words even now - had to say wee)
Wally (my granddad’s name was Walter/Wally

Bum, fart (it was “a pardon”, presumably because in the dim and distant past one begged pardon after farting, never heard anyone else call it that). Penises were “tails” and vulvas were “front bottoms”. Wee and poo were fine, pee was not rude but a combination of stuck up and incredibly twee so we weren’t allowed to say that either.

DDad said bugger, bloody and sod on a regular basis, DM had an ongoing battle to stop us copying him.

I don't think we were really even allowed to say bum or fart.

To be fair to my parents now though, they are in their eighties and have become rather more liberal in that respect. Neither is averse to telling scam callers to bugger off when on the phone.

As for me, I can swear like a trooper, though I gauge the situation first and certainly would refrain from it if young children are in earshot. My "children" are practically grown up now though, so I can relax a bit and let rip when the need arises.

Oh, and we were banned from singing “Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way, Uncle John lost his bum on the motorway”

I don’t why, we didn’t have an uncle John and it’s not that rude.

All of the above, and we had to say stomach, never tummy as my dm thought it was vulgar.

Bum and sod were pretty hardcore back in my day.

Penises were “tails”

I love that one.

Never allowed to take the name of God in vein..

Fart and knackered were not allowed. A fart was called a purp . Knackered was a tiredness only experienced after sex so totally off the cards.

No oh my God’s either, not that parents were religious at all.

If I called anyone a liar my mum would be horrified, she thought it was a far too grown up and serious accusation so I had to use fibber. Only grown ups could say liar.

I remember before mobile phones I had a boyfriend with a pager. I phoned the operator person once to give my message and they wouldn’t allow me to call him a sod. It was being said in a jokey way too like haha you silly sod. No not allowed.

TWAT was a massive no no in our house hold.. apparently a pregnant fish could cause so much distress!? 😆
I'm super paranoid now as I use knackered all the time !! 😱 And I'm a secretary!🤦

We weren't allowed to say anything - light childish words, like pee or poo; words considered vulgar, like knackered, belly or fart; full on swears, like bloody or bugger (fuck, etc, not even on the horizon); anything remotely blasphemous, including Christ, oh my god; a few class words, like pardon or toilet; plus anything that remotely referenced genitals or sex, describing a female dog as a bitch, saying that we hated anything (it had to be disliked).... no wonder I'm so foul mouthed now.

Never ever fanny as a body part because it offended dear greatAunt Fanny

We weren’t allowed to say most of the above, especially knackered, crap or liar, for some reason. Also prat and twat were the worst possible words (cunt would never ever have been mentioned). We lived in the south and I was most amused upon going to university to realise how mild both these are considered to be in the north.

Also, I picked up from my friend the habit of saying ‘oh sugar’, eg if I dropped something.My mother went nuts about it, and refused to explain exactly why it was a problem, just muttered darkly about ‘I know what you mean’. I was mystified. It wasn’t till I was an adult that I realised she thought I was using it as a euphemism for ‘oh shit’. She credited me with far more cognitive sophistication than I actually possessed. I had just copied it wholesale.