Is this counted as a swear word?

Yes - it doesn't mean 'twit' at all!

Googled it.

Yes, I do know.

Well, I think I know.

Bags, you do know what it means, don't you?

"Twat" is absolutely awful!

Eejit.... love it!

Being a US/UK transplant some 20 years ago, I am still learning slang here. In my last job we had a Scottish girl, and one from the Lakes District. I was alternately called 'hen' and 'chicken' all day long. I loved it, and it always put me in a good mood.

Some locals here say 'my love' or 'lovey', but I don't hear it as much nowadays. Ooooo-arrrrr... the Wurzels!

Twat = twit = eejit in Scotland. No big deal.

I have a very posh friend who was chatting to me about her butcher she said and I quote " I said to him your a silly twat" well I almost passed out. I can swear people might expect me to swear but up to that moment I wouldn't have expected her to have ever heard a swear word. When she saw my face she was flummoxed and had no idea what she'd said. When I explained how rude that word was where I was born she could hardly believe me. Apparently it's not a swear word in some parts of the country. Well were I live it most certainly is

Pee is uncouth. Wee isn't. So there!

I'm at a loss to understand why wee is posher than pee!

Yes. I quite like "arse" too. If you're going to be naughty, do it properly.

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Topical article in the Times today saying profanity is "poetic" and "artful" and we should rehabilitate it.

We were a bottom, tummy, wee wee, poo family. Without being twee, this is the way it was. 'Bum' would have been greeted with abject horror and a severe telling off!

However, language is always evolving, so the more widespread use of 'bum' nowdays is not shocking, just proof that semantic drift is in place.

My grandchildren use 'bottom burps' for - well, it's obvious, really - and I think that's great word usage.

I have just had a recall: I was at a friend's house and said 'crikey'. My friend's mother overheard and went bananas (another change in the use of a word?!) as she was very religious and I was blaspheming and in her house, too! I had absolutely no idea why she was so cross with me, as was allowed to use this word in my home but I learnt very quickly that a word can have different connotations.

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My 3 year old DGD asked me today if I minded her farting in my house. I said that was just fine. She then said "You can fart in my house if you want." That's friendship for you!

Nothing wrong with bum in my normal universe quite like using the word arse too.

I don't like the word 'bum'. But it's the terminology of the day, so what can you do? Sounds coarse. 'Bottom' is much nicer.

If we define swear words, they were words which would once have been used to swear an oath. "I swear by Almighty God, . . ." etc etc. Some evolved into things like "bloody" (by our lady) which are still considered swearwords, some have been altered to be repectable ("Christ!" became crikey, "God!" became gosh)

Vulgar words for body parts are not exactly swear words, they are crude words for parts which polite people don't refer to directly. New words are constantly being coined, and the old ones are used less and thought to be coarse. Even f**k was once the everyday word for "carnal intercourse", and was used by everyone from kings to nuns.

Maybe not a swear word as such but this did give me a jolt
What happens when the OP hears the F word, go into cardiac arrest? Or walk around with ear defenders on.

I didn't think it was ?

Is the OP a piss-take?

I had a friend who was a professor who taught teachers how to organise TEFL programmes. She had a book about English swear words. Evidently the English language has more swear words than any other language in the world!

Its my sons 36th birthday today crikey knows where the years have gone..... but I digress.

I just remembered a couple of things he said and did when he was small.

Sadly he had to got o nursery almost every day as I was a single mum and worked full time. He would have been about two and a half and used to chant a silly "rhyme" that went "poo, pot piddler la la la, doo dah, doo dah" over and over again to the tune of Camptown Races and it drove me nuts.

The other thing was that my mum always stored a tub of Vim in the bathroom and he used to sprinkle it around the toilet bowl and practice weeing it off. Once or twice I don't think he sprinkled the Vim in the loo at all and just weed straight into the little holes in the Vim tub.

I must remember to remind him when I see him later.

Thinking back, I don't think I ever heard my Mum and Dad using these words. It was as if the things didn't exist. Although she did use "bottom". I don't think I ever heard them swear.
After doing a bit of human biology at school I tended to use the scientific words if necessary, but avoid any mention if possible. Very prim and proper.
Hardly knew anything about male anatomy until teens - no brothers and Dad a very private person.