Words that make you snigger or cringe

Yammy, yes I know all about Miners. My dad insisted we all use carbolic soap cut with the cheese wire from a long block, with dettol in our weekly bath. oxters and lisks were squeaky clean after that! As I grew older, my Mum and I shared a bar of pears soap and left the carbolic to the boys.

I used to enjoy being taken up the Trussocks on the way to the exes house. Snigger....

Dislike - panties, hubby, fur baby and the use of the term 'real mother' for a biological parent whose child was adopted. Just heard this on TV so had to add it.

Like- scrumptious, squidgy, discombobulate.

I have just started re reading the Regency novels of Georgette Heyer and the language she uses is fascinating.

I remember my mum and I having a fall out, which for some bizarre reason resulted in her shouting "BUTTOCKS!" At me, over and over as I flounced down her path.

Baggs

I can't think of any. Words are words. How they are used, for what purpose, is what matters.

I can't think of any either, so cannot add to the thread but have enjoyed reading other thoughts, some funny ones.

This thread reminds me of Gillybob.
She disliked the word "tinkle" for having a wee, and "little boys' room" used by grown men.
I agree.
I don't like fart, really.

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

FannyCornforth

Truss
Both cringe, and snigger.
But mostly the former

Yes, I agree, that’s a funny one!

DanniRae

Looked up oxter and lisk - but still don't know what lisk means?

Your lisk is the top of your legs on either side of your genitals for either men or women.
They also used the expression he's lamed his lisk. It probably meant they had pulled a muscle in the top of their leg.
DH says the one he did not know what it was but managed not to laugh was when he was told someone had a pain in their pudding. I'd never heard it.

This thread has reminded me of this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDsfzJXGAo8

Looked up oxter and lisk - but still don't know what lisk means?

I hate the word C..t it truly makes me cringe
but
Recently I saw a translation on a Spanish menu for squid - it was Inked C..t and I have to admit it made me roar with laughter.?

Panties makes me cringe and rather oddly supper.

I think, maybe the word fanny being used for any area of the posterior can be blamed on America.
My 19th century born Grandmother was called Fannie it was not short for anything like say Francis or similar.
It was obviously extremely popular and I can’t imagine the Victorians’ choosing a name that referenced unmentionables
For their daughters.

Grandma70s

Yammy

Oxter and lisk make me giggle and remind me of my childhood. We were always told to make sure they were clean.

Had to Google. I’ve never heard either word. They seem to be Scottish.

If you had had relations who were Miners you would know the dislike of of a sweaty oxter or lisk. I'm not Scotish but nearly on the boarder. I wonder if any Northumbrian or Durham born Grans know the words?

Baggytrazzas

Yammy

Oxter and lisk make me giggle and remind me of my childhood. We were always told to make sure they were clean.

Haven't heard oxter for years and yes they do need to be kept clean!

Glad somebody knows what I'm referring to. Still used by old farmers around us. They use carbolic and gallons of Dettol!!!

When I was little, MANY moons ago, I had an Auntie Fanny, long before it was a rude word. She had a fish and chip shop in Hoyland, near Barnsley.

Panties, hubby and furbabies all make me cringe. Also Mummy and Daddy used by adults to their parents.

Fannypack makes me giggle.

Oxter I use, but lisk is strange to me. We never stop learning.

Another vote for moist, snigger and cringe

Swill makes me cringe.

I'm not going to have a shower, I'm just going to swill my oxters and lisk. URGH!!!

FannyCornforth

Truss
Both cringe, and snigger.
But mostly the former

Yes. It’s unfortunate that few people immediately think of bridge support.

Yammy

Oxter and lisk make me giggle and remind me of my childhood. We were always told to make sure they were clean.

Had to Google. I’ve never heard either word. They seem to be Scottish.

Yammy

Oxter and lisk make me giggle and remind me of my childhood. We were always told to make sure they were clean.

Everyday a learning experience on Gransnet!

?I've had to look both of these words up!?

Truss
Both cringe, and snigger.
But mostly the former

No there's nothing wrong with glasses and a shawl I wear glasses and I wore shawls back in the 60s) and I'm sure none of you look like that! It's just a picture that the word conjures up for me.