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Location: the burning former USofA
Registered: July 2010
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I need some of you older Brits to share some slang swear words from the eighties and earlier.
You know, one word cusses, short phrases, that kind of thing typical of teens from Britain and southern Scotland from before the mid eighties.
Ones still in use are fine, but none newer than the mid-eighties.
I'd rather you keep the board clean, so please PM your replies, unless you have some examples of less obnoxious ones.
Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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My era of 60s/70s was pretty fucking standard. We had nothing much special at all that I remember. 'Bollocks' was used a fair bit, still is. THat word that women so hate, cunt, was as popular then as today, as were dick, prick, cock. Bugger's usage as, bizarrely, a more polite version of fuck, remains the same today. The words haven't changed, but the precise deployment of them in phrases is likely to have shifted subtly.
No need to keep the board clean, you know. I'm intrigued by the answers.
Location: England
Registered: November 2003
Messages: 1756
What a load of bollocks! You should bloody well know that southern Scotland (and the rest of it) is a part of Great Britain, you dozy bugger. Stap me. Bloody hell! What sort of shit for brains am I dealing with? Now piss off.
Hugs
Nigel
PS - does this fill the bill?
I dream of boys with big bulges in their trousers,
Never of girls with big bulges in their blouses.
Location: the burning former USofA
Registered: July 2010
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Good enough so far, thanks! LOL
I'm trying to keep a character's language in synch with the times. I have no idea what was popular among teens for slang curses, only what was on 70's and 80's UK television shows, and there were few teens on them.
Location: Worcester, England
Registered: January 2005
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By far the commonest in my circles in the 70s and early 80s was "sod" and its associates.
"Sod off". "No I sodding well won't"., "Sod you, then".
More generally, overworked new vogue words included "hassle", "bummer" (unpleasant experience), "suss out" and suchlike.
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Location: the burning former USofA
Registered: July 2010
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O goodie! Something to watch later! Thanks!
And I can't believe I didn't think of sod. Was it also used as a... I guess noun, back then?
As in "You stupid sod."?
Or was that later than mid-eighties?