To think "smashing" is a thoroughly underused word these days?

[turquoise]

My colleague (fabulous old boy, clearly had a whale of a time in the sixties) used it today and I thought, you just don't hear that enough!

Even better - "smasher", as in he/she's a smasher.

Oh I use it lots

That's a smashing top/picture/piece of work

Smashing dinner, DH

What a smashing boy

I miss 'beastly'

'don't be beastly marjorie'.
so malory towers

Oh yes beastly, excellent.

I am turning more and more Joyce Grenfell as I embrace middle age.

fab
I like that word. as in m shadows is fab

smashing thread. it has made me smile

Oh my lovely and much missed great aunt used to say beastly all the time

that's a beast of a jar, I can't get the lid off / I've got a beastly rash... that sort of thing

She was FAB, I miss her

I say "rotter" and "golly" a lot. I have been known to tell DS1 not to be beastly to DS2 as well.

It's my inner 1950s public schoolgirl fighting her way out through my tough, brummie outer shell

Something about smashing though - it's not so jolly hockey sticks, it's just - smashing. In a class of it's own.

My favourite saying is, 'well I'll be jiggered!'

Jolly.

As I "I jolly well will"

pagwatch i use 'beastly' my children love it

its soooo Brideshead - Cordelia used it a lot!

I use smashing/smasher. Cracking and cracker too. I am not posh.

How about 'belting'? Think that might be a northern thing.

Awfully.

Truly.

Jolly good.

[jolly hockeys sticks at the ready]

I told my GS(3) he was a smashing boy ..he replied Im not a smashing boy I'm a fixed together boy

Awwww

I like smashing. It's ever so-ever so.

random

I think splendid should be used more. I am planning a splendid party at the moment.

DDD I use 'cracking' and 'belter' too. Think it is quite northern (dad was from Bury).

what poppycock

i sometimes say 'gadzooks'

A couple of years ago DS1 wrote to father Christmas:

"Dear Father Christmas...I've been smashing this year" ...aaawww

Ooo yes, smashing is a great word.

I use crikey quite a lot. And goodness (as in, Oh my goodness)

I like rotter, splendid and super too.

Gosh or crumbs.