[shock] @ Tweenies!!

[kyala]

Can't believe they just used this term of phrase:
Mylo: "Jakey, you can't just go 'round duffing people up!"

How are LO's supposed to undersatnd that sort of language (unless their parent's are pikeys and use it anyway)
My LO just looked at me like I was meant to explain it to her (yeah right, like I'm going to teach her so she can use it!!)

Anyone else heard random phrases on Beebies/similar?

Far better if they had said beating the living shit of out people?

I say 'duffing up'.

Not sure I'm a "pikey"

Is it particularly objectionable?

Oh come on it's not like he said "beating the shit out of people"

Once more mn never ceases to amaze!

great minds twinkie

It's a colloquialism and we have many of those in the English language. Just look at homophones, they are enough to confuse anyone?
Why not just say ?It?s a different way of saying?.? And then you are broadening your lo?s vocabulary. No harm done.

Clearly should have been "Egad, Jakey old bean, you simply can't go around resorting to fisticuffs at the least provocation!"

pmsl Port

I bet the writer used to read the Beano as a boy (or girl)

...didn't mean homophones were colloquialisms, just that they are many confusing things in the English language, homophones being one of them!

and here i was thinking that 'duffing up' meant 'impregnating'. Will get me foriegn hat and coat now.

I hate the Tweenies, cant stand the blighters. But the kids do, so when in Rome...

and agree with other posters about the word duffing. whats the deal? I used to use it all the time. Picked it up in the playground years on back.... I guess you got a load of Pikies on yer hands then kyala

..anyway, what is a Pikey? LOL

duffing up is a totally normal phrase - I can't say I use it every day but I definitely know what it means and I am NOT "pikey" in any respect. Can't see it's any different to "beating up", eg "stop duffing up your sister".

Surely learning new words - even - shock, horror - slang, is all part of the point of letting them watch tv ?

("pikey" however is an objectionable term)

LOL Kiskidee
up the duff = pregnant
Duffing up = beating seven shades of shite out of someone.

Jake is so going to get bullied when he finally gets to school.

I hope so UD I hope so

"get someone up the duff" = impregnate them

"duff someone up" = beat, as Twinkie1 so eloquently put it, the living shit out of them

I wonder what the origins of "duff" are? It's clearly a very useful multipurpose term.

In terms of being pregant it stems from the term "in the pudding club" dough being another term for pudding and duff being a different pronounciation of the word dough.

Duff also used to be a euphanism for penis too.

No idea about the duffing up in sense of beating someone up though

well I objected when someone said turd recently...

duffing up is perfectly ok I reckon !

Did a tweenie say "Turd"

pikey?

You would rather your children called ppl pikies than said duffing up??

Now i really have heard everything!!