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

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

Not forbidden words, but at 4 or 5, my favourite insults were you're a bladder! Or you're a cistern! To do with wee/toilets, but not actually wee/toilets. Cunning

We weren’t allowed to say can’t according to my nana, as ‘there is no such word as can’t’.

All "rude" words were banned . If my Mum wanted to say the word bloody, she'd say "B" . So it would be "that B milkman didn't leave my milk today " . B also stood for bugger, so it could be " She's nothing but a B !". I got so used to it, I sometimes say B myself .

scottish.to this day cant hear the word "jobby" without,...reacting.wouldnt say it ever

Fart, bum, belly, boobies, oh my god, shut up, knackered, gutted.

'Shut up', 'Stupid', 'Yeah' or 'Hi'.

'Please be quiet', 'Silly', 'Yes' and 'Hello' were the alternatives allowed.

We didn't have any word for 'fart'. Maybe we weren't allowed to fart? Can't remember

What? (Had to be pardon)

We weren't meant to say pardon, it should have been, "what did you say?"

Blasphemy was frowned on more than other words, especially when visiting he religious branches of the family.

We had weeze and lumps for wee and poo, and windy pops for farts (which autoincorrect thanks should be darts.) Bits or nether regions for genitals, although in a medical context (like when my sister fell off a climbing frame and managed to fall onto a bar between the legs,) it was just penis (or occasionally willy) and vagina, so we knew the words.

I heard my father say fuck just twice in my life (once the car had just been written off - that's how I knew it was bad, and once when he was on the phone and didn't realise I was there.) Bloody and bugger and sod were seen as pretty bad - but actually, once we got to mid-teens, it was all okay in casual conversation except blasphemy, fuck and cunt.

A-level French teacher got upset about one of the boys calling someone a berk in front of the girls (I was probably the only one curious enough ato look up the etymology, because I was fairly sure I wasn't going to expire with shock.) And when Latin teacher asked for a more colloquial translation than "didn't care," he got very upset when I suggested "didn't give a toss." I had no idea it meant anything other than throw, so was a bit confused. Given all the Catulllus we had to do as a set book, which is basically all about sex, I'm still a bit confused about why it bothered him so much.

My mother also had a rule that dialect words were okay, but slang wasn't - trouble was while I knew words weren't what I would use in an essay, it was mostly not until I went away to uni at 18 and discovered not everyone knew some of the words I used, that I knew which were slang and which were Dorset.

Do you keep any of these up with your children? I discourage fart (trump), o my god (goodness), bum (bottom) and pardon (excuse me) Plus all swear words obviously! I’m not sure why as such they just seen wrong out of a child’s mouth!

Knackered
Bum
I had to say front or back bottom

Knackered and plonker there are rude.
Belly - pigs have belly's, people have tummies.
Ain't, what and toilet because it is 'common'.
No swearing at all.

Despite not being a religious family, using gods name in vain was a no no. There were a lot of “oh my gosh!” and “gosh!” exclamations in my house.

Usual swear words weren’t allowed - a lot of “oh for Pete’s sake!” (Who the fuck is Pete the poor fella!?)

And bloody was off limits - although I’m pretty sure it was my mum who told me the whole “bloodys in the bible, bloodys in the book, if you don’t believe me take a bloody look” lol so it was a short lived ban once that became amusing.

Bugger was a no no too despite being used in a well known advertising campaign here for a car... took a long time for me to realise the sexual connotation on that one.. still at the time it sounded like a harmless substitute for “bloody”..

I wasn't allowed to say PIG... seriously...
My parents were very Victorian in attitude.. But that's another story

Pretty much all of the above. I could never understand why knackered was not allowed. Now I know why but I say it on a near daily basis (with zero chance of THAT being th reason). I had no idea! The things you learn on MN.

I had family in Scotland and we,d visit every now and then when we were younger. Got introduced to the word jobby. Said in a Scottish accent it's one of the funniest words ever. Love it.

Pig? As an insult, or you weren’t allowed to mention the animal? Why not?

I wasn't allowed to say any rude words. I was smacked once for saying "off of" as apparently that was "very common"

I'm early 30s and knackered was also not allowed! Nor was fart, crap, damn, oh my god, and my mum also hates the word belly! When I was pregnant with DC it would wind me up that she'd actually correct me and tell me to use tummy. So to wind her up I'd continue to use belly

I grew up in the 70s. Bugger and sod were allowed, but prat was considered deeply offensive.
We called a vagina a 'jenny' and a penis was a 'jimmy'.
Wee was 'wiz' and a poo was a 'lump'. Breasts were 'drinks'
I remember my mum telling my dad off for using the word 'bloke'.

I asked my DF what a cunt was when he was driving, he nearly had a crash and very calmly said it was a rude word and not to use it again. I was 10 years old.

Went through a craze of saying Gawd and Bennet as a child, very rude so stopped by DM.

DF used to say ‘Don’t say what, say eh, eh makes bull shit’.

My parents didn't ban expletives so much; I think they took the view that banning them made them all the more tempting. However, certain phrases were banned:

For Christ's sake. All the other "sakes" were OK; I used to say "for Pete's sake" a lot, like they do in Thunderbirds.

Calling an adult "silly" was definitely not on.

"I wasn't talking to you." This was considered very rude indeed.

As for French, I remember being taught certain rude words, in A-level French. "Berk", "Salaud", "Con"...

Stupid (had to say silly), shut up (ssshh or be quiet) liar (fibber), telly (was common so had to say television - after a few years tv was acceptable). No acknowledgement of farts at all!

Do you keep any of these up with your children? I discourage fart (trump), o my god (goodness), bum (bottom) and pardon (excuse me) Plus all swear words obviously! I’m not sure why as such they just seen wrong out of a child’s mouth!

No. Fart has always been OK in this house. We call a fart a fart. I didn't want them swearing while still young, and at primary school. By secondary school it would be a losing battle anyway and only a delusional parent would think that their child would never swear when with their peers.

So from teenage years I would say that "there's a time and a place." No swearing directly at people. No swearing at teachers, in the presence of grandparents, in formal situations, within earshot of the Queen etc.

I'm reasonably relaxed about it so long as the "time and a place" lesson is remembered, and as I said before, I am certainly not averse to letting rip myself.

My parents used to go barmy if I said fart. DS has said it all his life without so much as a raised eyebrow and my parents say it now. I remember once when I was about 6 I said 'buggery' really loudly in a public place. My parents were laughing too hard to tell me off but I never said it again so must have got the message.

Another one for fart. Had to be 'a piggy smell'

Anything blasphemous which was odd as my parents weren't at all religious. I was once hit around the head by my mother for calling someone a lucky devil.
It was a bit of a culture shock visiting relatives in Ireland and I was open-mouthed at all the 'Jesus, Mary and Josephing' going on!