It's a Scottish word we never use in England. It means a lady's frontbottom, and it's very rude. Not that that doesn't mean we English aren't miffed by Trump. We are. Frightfully so, in fact.
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Origins are definitely in England, we have just perfected the use of it
jul 26, 2025, 12:49 pm • 2 0 • view
🤭
jul 26, 2025, 12:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Yep. It is pure Saxon.
jul 26, 2025, 3:24 pm • 1 0 • view
A bit more detail, it comes from Proto-Germanic and is found in similar form in all derivative languages including, English and Scots, as well as Frisian, Dutch, German and Scandinavian languages. According to Wiktionary the original root is unknown, possibly PIE
jul 26, 2025, 3:43 pm • 1 0 • view
I looked up 'front bottom' in the hope I could say something about the Norman invasion to counter this, but sadly 'bottom' is also from the Germanic.
jul 26, 2025, 3:47 pm • 1 0 • view
🤣 Front as well, I believe. The thing is, a lot of the more earthy Anglo-Saxon words became coarse language in favour of Romance words in Anglophone language. I assume because they were associated with the peasantry and perhaps later exacerbated by the renaissance? It's just a word.
jul 26, 2025, 7:23 pm • 1 0 • view
I’ll chuck my random nugget of trivia in here, almost all the time you see “Grove” as in Grove lane or street, it was a replacement for “Grope Cunt” lane/street etc. where the ladies of the night peddled their wears.
jul 26, 2025, 8:46 pm • 2 0 • view
Also 'Grape'. I used to drink regularly at a pub called 'The Grapes'. Now I'm wondering what went on after hours.
jul 27, 2025, 1:32 pm • 1 0 • view
I knew this but I am happy that you said it.
jul 26, 2025, 9:35 pm • 2 0 • view
*writes petition to bring back the traditional names of local streets*
jul 26, 2025, 9:44 pm • 2 0 • view
😂
jul 27, 2025, 1:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Aided, of course, by the Scottish martial art of Ballistic Swearing.
jul 26, 2025, 1:14 pm • 1 0 • view
Not a patch on the English martial art of scone-making.
jul 26, 2025, 2:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Must beg to differ. A profanity delivered by a Scottish school teacher will take your ---- head off...
jul 26, 2025, 4:05 pm • 1 0 • view
So will a scone if you aim it right.
jul 26, 2025, 4:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Just don’t ask if the jam or cream goes on first, that usually results in violence (cream should be first though)
jul 26, 2025, 2:45 pm • 1 0 • view
Er... as it happens, I live in Cornwall, near Truro and, er...
jul 26, 2025, 3:12 pm • 1 0 • view
We train them from a young age, was so proud when my 2 year old came out with “fucks sake daddy” when I dropped something. His mum wasn’t quite as impressed though
jul 26, 2025, 8:48 pm • 2 0 • view
One of my daughter's first words was 'bollocks'. The first time she did it, her mother and I were absolutely delighted and couldn't stop laughing. This, in turn, delighted my daughter who promptly started yelling it over and over and over again. Then we remembered my mother was visiting at the...
jul 27, 2025, 1:26 pm • 2 0 • view
... end of the week. One of the most difficult aspects of parenting is encouraging a child to do something, turning on a sixpence and then trying to convince that child that perhaps it's not such a wonderful thing after all while theyre at the holophrastic stage of language development.
jul 27, 2025, 1:26 pm • 2 0 • view