The Strange Death of Pillock

[Jivby]

When I was a kid in the 80s, pillocks were everywhere. Even I was sometimes a pillock. Nowadays you never hear about pillocks. It’s gone the way of wazzock and bounder.

AIBU to rail against the death of pillock?

Pollock and Pratt need resurrecting!

If we're going old school, blatherskyte is right up there with strumpet.

I love the Irish Eejit. My DH sometimes calls himself an irriot in a Japanese accent when he’s done something stupid.

Sound like a firm of solicitors.

It's ha'p'orth as in a half penny's worth. Victorian origin, I believe and beloved of Northern grannies.

Thanks, not sure I’ve seen it written down and it did look really weird when I tried. (Very badly )

This will be lost on anyone outside Wales and even to most people inside wales but my first thought was ‘Poor Geraint. Maybe it was too much of a challenge. For him and for the coracle.’

Good Heavens to Betsy! I'm so far behind the times I didn't realise half these words weren't in common usage. I use "daft ha'peth" and "wazzock" frequently and I frequently call my dog a "soppy date" when he is being particularly needy.

I had an awkward moment in church recently when a rather shy young man asked me to have a word with an older lady who was overfond of using "twat".

Where does the jury stand on "pleb"? I use it mostly in a gently amused way in conversation with DH or friends who express surprise about something that I thought they knew.

We didn’t/don’t use pillock much in NI. Sometimes wally or prat back in the eighties. Eejit would be our favourite mild insult. Or buck eejit. Or clampit. Or tube - although I haven’t heard that in a while. My dad used it a lot ‘Ya tube!’😆

And my late Northern FIL. He used to call our dog that. She worshipped him.

If you're a fellow pleb it's all good, if you're a bit patrician it may be unfashionably rude and excite a bit of class envy.

I’m told I use Heavens to Murgatroyd a lot but I don’t notice as it seems to come out naturally. I use many of these sadly as I am occasionally surrounded by them. As an aside I explained to a Japanese lady how to get somewhere one way or another that it was 6 or two threes. I retired embarrassed

People definitely still say it where I live [Mids)

Is that in the sense of 'six of one & half a dozen of the other'?

Divvy, tablet, plantpot, bampot.

Oh I agree but I said it once out in the car with DM and after mulling it over for a minute she told me that the other driver was a woman and she didn’t think women could be bellends 🤷‍♀️ I vary it now, I am far too sweary in general.

I use lollygagging, been trying to bring it back for years but only my 11year old is on board 😅

I think this is really part of the wider trend in society that rejects “soft” swear words. People are far too ready to deploy cunt these days. It used to be reserved for special occasions, now it’s thrown about with abandon.

😂😂😂

Isn’t Berk an abbreviation of Berkshire Hunt which is cockney rhyming slang?

My dm used to use 'lady muck' to mean the same thing, though no idea where that came from.

Apparently so.

My mother still mentions Lady Docker when she sees someone all dressed up @Roaminginthegloaming

I'm struggling to accept that. If it were rhyming slang from "Berkshire Hunt" it would be pronounced "bark".

My mum used to say Lady Muck of Clabber Hill about people who thought they were a cut above🤣