Swear words

Well not a swear word as such but I heard a new one (to me) yesterday describing a boy, who had homed in on a girl who was in deep conversation with a boy who fancied her, as a cock blocker These were young teens (14-15) chatting so presume that's a newish description

That's horrible.

Cock is such a horrible word - sounds aggressive. I'm still working out what a cock blocker is

A boy who moves in on his friend/mate who is chatting up a girl by taking over the attention
A is chatting up B and C homes in and takes over B s attention, leaving A to either stand his ground or fight or skulk off Get it Riverwalk

Yes not a very nice expression but seems the 'in' one amongst youngsters I will add it was spoken by a very well brought child from a good family and no one showed any shock so obviously mainstream speak

Peaseblossom, couldn't agree more.

When I swear, gods don't come into it, whatever their historical importance in the words. So, by my reckoning, I can't "swear". I can speak with emphasis though, or with irritation, etc. And that's what I use the words that used to be swear words for.

So I haven't counted bloody as a swear word for decades.

My dad - who reckoned he didn't swear and once stood up on a bus and demanded that someone stop swearing in front of women and children - actually had a couple of choice phrases when he hammered his own finger, electrocuted himself while mending something, nearly set fire to himself while searching for a gas leak with a lighter (you get the picture!). One was "damn it, blast it and bugger it to hell", which has gone into our family dictionary. I was shouting it once (I'd lost my keys again) when I walked into our hall to find DH and our new neighbour, who'd just called round to introduce himself....

My dad's go to swear expression was "Hell and Damnation!" Infrequent and effective.

Never heard my mum swear till she went back to teaching in a secondary school. Then we pretended to be shocked and told her That School was a bad influence

I once made my 15 year old son take a t-shirt back to the shop as I was not going to sit and look at him with it saying 'mother fucker'. I love saying BALLS! as an expression.

No need for swearing at all. I told my lot that it showed a lack of education, so they took it to heart and do not swear, not when I am about anyway.

The 'f' word is a definite no, no in my house. Unfortunately you cannot turn on the tv without hearing it in films/plays these days. No need for swearing. I don't mind 'blast' or 'bunnies' as my sil used to say, but I do not like the obscene words people seem to use without knowing they use them. I definitely do not like to hear little children swearing.

do you count the words in the OP as swearing, yorkshire?

I just think swearing in general has (like money!) lost it's value. So many people swear automatically, not in my house, that I no longer seem to be affected by it, whereas once upon a time I would have been offended by bad language. I don't swear, the other half doesn't not when I am around, and although I know my family do, never in my house. My son however, who cannot speak, can say Bugger beautifully when he bumps into anything, or when chopping wood catches his thumb. Such is life.

I don't think anybody likes to hear unpleasant talk. Some of the unpleasantest has nothing to do with swearing and swearing has nothing to do with it. As somebody said up thread, it's the tone of what people say that matters, not just the words they use. What people mean when they say something is what matters. e.g. if someone says Fuck! when they drop a hammer on their toe what it means is that it was a shock and it hurt, nothing nasty at all (apart from the pain).

I was working for some trendy company with lots of trendy young people, the office being an open plan. One day I had just had enough of the language being used and shouted out "quiet everyone and listen, you all have degrees and yet the only word you seem know to express yourself is the f word so I reckon money on your education has been completely wasted so I think your parents should put in a complaint to the education dept. It did the trick. Saying that my favourite word is bastard, is that swearing?

I always thought that shite and shit were interchangable !!

My dh spent half his working life in the navy and the second half in the police force. His swearing is a work of art that decorates and adorns his speech.

I don't really swear. The occasional bloody, shite, feck. Strangely feck isn't really considered a swear word. I think shite is a crude word but not sure that it's a swear word.

I've only used the F word a handful of times when really displeased and wishing to make a point of just how displeased I was. Not in an angry shouty situation. It certainly got everyone's attention as it's not my normal language.

However, the C word is another matter, Never ever said it. Can't say it, Can't imagine under what circumstances I might use it - not even at a show of the Vagina Monologues

The other C word mentioned earlier, c**k as in being a part of the male anatomy, is another word that I hate. Can't say that one either. Actually it might be imo crude rather than a swear word. Yet I can quite happily when with my friends, call someone a dick-head. Only with close friends though as my general demeanor is really quite ladylike.

Strange how different we all are. I've never thought of 'cock' as being anything like a swear word.

We call a spectacular mistake a cock-up, and don't some Londoners say 'All right, cock?'...

Definitely hate the C--t word it's so commonly used these days , also it seems very derogatory to women although sadly many women say it ☹️ What would the suffragettes make of it all!

I dont swear ,never have ...well once when I was two ...my sister taught me the F word she'd heard it at school and I proudly showed it off at the dinner table.My dad was mortified ,took me out of the room and smacked me ...for the first and last time .He then sat beside me on the bed and cried with me.I remember it vividly and I've never used bad language since and no one who knows me would swear around me.My lovely dad used to blush when people swore around him or on TV .

I think shite is a swear word, boobs is slang and had no idea sucks could be considered a swear word.

Ana Londoners won't say that now, but they used to, certainly in the 1960's and early seventies.Although it's short for cock sparrer ( sparrow.) I had forgotten that until you mentioned it.

I've never heard anyone say the c word in RL.

Me neither.Perhaps we move in rarified circles.

I wonder why it does feel worse to hear people say , "you cunt" than "you cock" both of which I have heard on more than one occasion! I live in RL!

Both are words to describe genitalia but the female word is considered almost taboo whereas the male world is not!

I was once worked with a woman who, in a fit of pique, called a female colleague a c**t. The whole office (both male and female) fell silent. It caused such a lot of trouble. The woman who'd said it was given a formal disciplinary notice (and subsequently left) and the whole company was called into a general meeting with HR and reminded of office respect and unacceptable behaviour that could be construed as bullying in the workplace. The whole atmosphere of the office changed considerably after that and I've never heard anyone repeat it.