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FannyCornforth Sun 21-Feb-21 09:44:12

Hello Everyone smile

Inspired by another thread (thank you BlueBelleflowers).

What names has your enbonpointment (I hope that's the word confused) been given, even by yourself or AN Other?

Rather disappointingly, I don't recall my pair ever being referred to as anything much, but for the purposes of this thread I'm going with Porgy and Bess.

Anyone else? Thank you in advance!

Nicegranny Wed 24-Feb-21 06:52:12

Lemongrove ?

FannyCornforth Wed 24-Feb-21 06:43:53

Blossoming aah! And blue-footed too smile

LauraNorder Wed 24-Feb-21 01:57:36

Bet we’re all glad we didn’t have to chest feed.

Blossoming Tue 23-Feb-21 22:18:14

I thought I would share my boobies with you as they are looking very perky at the moment. Aren’t they a nice pair?

grumppa Tue 23-Feb-21 22:13:05

She must have+been the sister of the young man of Devizes, whose ——— —s were of different sizes.

lemongrove Tue 23-Feb-21 21:25:17

Lisagran ? enjoyed your contributions.

My own contribution will add a bit of class to the thread...

There was a young lady from Devizes
Who had breasts of varying sizes,
One was small, hardly nothing at all
The other was big and won prizes.

LauraNorder Tue 23-Feb-21 20:23:55

I filched this from Urms cartoon thread

watermeadow Tue 23-Feb-21 19:08:05

To those tutting that their children were taught to use the proper words, I always wonder if these children referred to their abdomens, buttocks and vulvas. Nobody else at school would have known what they meant.

Witzend Tue 23-Feb-21 08:18:13

My DM was once tickled to death by a colleague’s comment about a woman whose ample endowments were bursting forth from their constraints.
‘Her dumplings are boiling over.’ ?

B9exchange Mon 22-Feb-21 19:35:22

Mercedez, your post brought back memories of my nursing days. I caught a couple of male medical students tittering (pun intended) and enquired what was so funny. They pointed to the curtained bed, and I stuck my head round to see our newly admitted prostitute patient, (we were based in Soho!) with 'mild' tattooed on one, and 'bitter' on the other....

Auntieflo Mon 22-Feb-21 19:14:33

This thread has made me laugh.
When a young thing, I longed to have a bit more substance in my bra.
Then in later life, I just wished the opposite.
After a lumpectomy, they did become Pinky and Perky, for a while.
But all the stories reminded me of my school days.
We had a Prussian PE teacher. She was very strict and vocal, loud and frightening, with an impressive, well corseted bosom.
My dear mum, one day said, " oh well, over her shoulder goes one care"!

WishIwasyounger Mon 22-Feb-21 17:34:20

witzend - a very well endowed friend once told me that she’d weighed hers - one and a half stone each!
No wonder I struggle with the scaffolding needed.

moggie57 Mon 22-Feb-21 13:20:36

boobies

Alexa Mon 22-Feb-21 13:19:39

'Mammary glands' is okay when the frame of knowledge is anatomy and physiology.

FannyCornforth Mon 22-Feb-21 11:58:12

Grandma11 thanks

Grandma11 Mon 22-Feb-21 11:54:15

The polite name in our family is ‘Boobs’ and a Mamogram is a ‘Boob Sandwich’!

My young Grandaughters use to call breast feeding ‘Booby milk’ and Cows Milk ‘Fridge Milk’!

Quite simple really, the Boob Sandwich idea was to try and lighten the fear somewhat in my young daughters, due to the fact that we have a high rate of Breast cancer in our family, having lost a daughter to it and my Mum and my Aunt.

FannyCornforth Mon 22-Feb-21 11:39:53

timetogo2016

Ethiopian slippers is what my dh called them ONCE.

shock

Annodomini, no worries smile
Alexa my mom said 'bust' too. You don't hear that so much now.
'Mammary glands' oh dear sad

Alexa Mon 22-Feb-21 11:21:30

Breasts used to be not talked about very much by the respectable working class lower middle class where I lived my life my Glasgow mother in law always referred to "the bust". You did not discuss such a thing at all with my own mother. I was a nurse and nurses all called them breasts or on occasion mammary glands .

annodomini Mon 22-Feb-21 10:43:24

Sorry, FC. I misread the heading. Should have gone to Specsavers.

timetogo2016 Mon 22-Feb-21 10:30:54

Ethiopian slippers is what my dh called them ONCE.

mercedez Mon 22-Feb-21 10:30:38

My dh said he would call them mild and bitter in his youth and following joining the navy they were known as port and starboard. He says the best size is a boob which will fit into an old fashioned champagne class. He loved the thread and we had a few chuckles. Nice to laugh, thanks.

Witzend Mon 22-Feb-21 10:29:50

@WishIwasyounger, a very well endowed friend once told me that she’d weighed hers - one and a half stone each!

I had to tell her that even when I was bigger and fatter than in my slender youth, I still didn’t have enough to put in the kitchen scales!

MrsAllboys Mon 22-Feb-21 10:28:34

I call them breasts when speaking formally but boobs in casual conversations. Yes LoobyLou boys back in 60s70s used to say 'Knockers' Nowadays I've heard women refer to them as 'Girls' and 'Puppies'. Not sure what young lads call them nowadays!!

WishIwasyounger Mon 22-Feb-21 10:23:44

I've called mine 'my twins' on occasion, though generally refer to them as boobs.
though in my teens I’d always longed for a pair of knockout knockers.
I've generally had the opposite wish: being well endowed I wish they were smaller. My ex was a boobs man, and he was a real pain with them.

Witzend Mon 22-Feb-21 10:02:50

No names here, except right after having babies, when they were Hot Concrete Footballs One and Two.

Mind you that was when I came to appreciate being less than bountifully endowed, though in my teens I’d always longed for a pair of knockout knockers. Or at least a proper cleavage, anyway.
Luckily dh was always more of a leg man.