Scrabble, jizz and my mother

[PotteringPondering]

I spent New Year with my elderly mother. She's a huge Scrabble fan, and we played several games.

In one game I realised I could get the highest score I've ever got for a word. It would blitz the game, and triumphantly crown all my years of Scrabble playing. It included two Zs (one from a blank), and a triple word score.

But the word was JIZZ. I realised I couldn't face the ensuing conversation with my mother, so it went unplayed.

Was I unreasonable to forego the most euphoric Scrabble moment ever, because I wouldn't explain jizz to my mother?

You think your mother wouldn't know already?

And it also means other stuff so you could have used it.

Yes Yanbu she’s an elderly woman not a nun! she’s likely seen it, heard it, done it all before 😆

My grandfather once won a game against my mother and I by playing WANKER on a triple word score, and he was 94 at the time, so I vote YABU. But I think JIZZ is slang and therefore technically not allowed anyway?

Would jizz count? Is it in the dictionary?

Yabu bloody auto correct!

I was intrigued, so I looked it up:

The word jizz is a valid scrabble word
3 short excerpts of WikWik.org

jizz
n. (ornithology, birdwatching) The unique characteristics of a bird species that enable it to be immediately…
jizz
n. (vulgar slang) Male ejaculate; sperm, semen.
jizz
v. (intransitive, slang) To ejaculate; to eject semen.

If it's a valid word then yep, you were unreasonable not to play it

I mean, you know your own mother but - and I say this lightly - older people are just patronised so much in society as it is. I wouldn't add to that. I'd have played the word and had a laugh at explaining it

Ooh, that was a shame - it also has an innocent meaning.

Somebody (hesitantly) said it in a word round in Pointless once - I think they were after words ending in double-z. Richard said something like "Yes, great word. Of course, as we all know, jizz is a term used in jazz music - it means [I forget what] AND NOTHING ELSE!!!"

I discovered afterwards that it has other meanings too. D'oh!

I panicked.

I play scrabble with my elderly mother online. I've played Jizz several times as well as Cunt. I always apologise but it doesn't stop me wanting to win

How old is elderly?

Do you mean she was in her 20s in the 1960s? If so, she knows.

They're not the sweet little old ladies of crappy stereotypes. They're people who will never look at Mars Bar without a frisson (even though the dit was almost certainly untrue)

Interesting. According to a quick Google it depends where you're playing and what word list you're using as to whether it's valid at all.

JIZ is also allowed. A wig made of worsted if memory serves.

My PIL was a keen ornithologist. He had a book 'Birds and their jizz' which made us all snigger.

Loving the title 🤣🤣🤣

Could you not have played 'jazz' if concerned?

My Irish mother told my English teen daughter that she was full of jizz. It's a slightly old-fashioned way of saying sparky. Dd's face....

Was there something like this on Motherland?

And now if you lend your phones out your Google history has Jizz on it!!
😂

That reminds me of the time I was out for dinner with my mum in Poland. The starter had a VERY dubious-tasting (and looking) dressing. I am absolutely convinced that the staff in the kitchen had had a bet and this was more man fat than mayonnaise but it's not like I could tell my mum that it tasted of jizz, is it. I don't know what would have been worse, the look of shock on her face, or her face had it NOT contained a look of shock and she knew exactly what I was talking about. I've only ever told my husband this story because I can't stand the thought of someone saying to me, horrified, "but how do you KNOW!?"

The sementics of scrabble can prove tricky.

Ugh @CurlyhairedAssassin 🤢

"You can use my phone but don't be shocked when you see jizz on it".

There’s only one Z tile in scrabble do you should be disqualified for cheating anyway 😂

Presumably she didn't have an A?