🤬 These Historical Swear Words Need To Make A Comeback!

These sound so made up, but they aren't!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda gam Nation.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Many of our most famous swear words have their origins
in Shakespearean times or even further further back. We've always
had swear words. We've always had words for people's private parts.
So those sorts of things aren't you. But I thought
i'd bring you some old words for exactly those things.
Go well, I've called you a fop doodle before. This
isn't a It's just an insignificant fool. So take that

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and where it.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
Was pride, wouldn't I where that would.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
About this one? You're a bit of a smell fungus,
a buzzkill or a complainer. You're not really a buzz You.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Know what you need? You need some sort of music
from the get Brian Ryan.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
With we have early swear music.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
There we go pretty did us?

Speaker 2 (00:46):
You smell fungus?

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Very good.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Some of the words that we've known for a long time,
like gad zooks. That's like, oh my god, OMG. That
was an early OMG. That's what girls would text to
each other by carry a pigeon, godzoukes jelly bell, which
we've heard that expression. That was an insult for overweight
members of the aristocracy. Consandrew for example, zounder kite, an

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idiot who makes frequent mistakes. Anything you'd like to mention? No, okay, great?
How about how about this one?

Speaker 1 (01:20):
A bed swerver? What's a bed swerver?

Speaker 2 (01:23):
That's a cheat of someone who swerves into other people's beds.
That's good, isn't it. He's a bit of a bed swerver.
That still makes sense?

Speaker 1 (01:29):
What about these?

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Let's get into some more unsavory one. Shall we a bestcumber?

Speaker 1 (01:36):
What's a best comber?

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Just spray feces upon someone?

Speaker 1 (01:39):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:41):
I didn't say they were nice. We don't have a
modern word for that, do we? Or shall I look
at the urban dictionary and see? How about this one? Sad?
The fact I'm saying that out loud people people in
the olden days would have had a heart attack that
I'm saying that hard. Basically, it's the F word fornicationes.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Sad wit I'm going to lean into it. What a sad?

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Yeah? What a sid well? No, you wouldn't say what
a f.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
You wouldn't sada.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
It's like that Lemones made of mine years ago. He
used to save.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
Yeah, are you going to stuff it up? Safe? For
f's sake? He'd say, for if.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
Safe, and he was so charming. No one and u F.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
I know you've got to say u F not u F.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Were you have said sad?

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Sad?

Speaker 2 (02:30):
Let's have a look what then? Then, of course there's
lots of words to describe body parts a thing and
bob testical around Italian someone who's penis is shorter than
their scroton. Yeah, Brendan's gone quiet.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
Don't worry, it's all proportionally, Okay, don't you worry about that?

Speaker 2 (02:56):
A very small question, don't you?

Speaker 1 (02:58):
You know what?

Speaker 2 (03:01):
What are you going to tell me? Tell me what
you want to say?

Speaker 3 (03:06):
Did you know that the sea word, that the offensive
sea word, was actually the medical term for it. And
everyone used to use that all the time, as much
as you kne'd sard. So they used to use the
sea word when doctors would get together at medical gatherings.
That's how they would describe it, and it wasn't in
any way offensive.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Well, I've spoken about this on the podcast I do
with my friend Anita McGregor. And you know the word
we use for a Native American woman, a score score
is the sea word is really that name has been
used and popularized from white people describing a female body part.
So if you call that's why in those native communities,

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if you call someone that, that's now become what we
know is see that's how horrific that is.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
Sarden score Yeah, new breakfast shot. Actually, don't tell the
Carusos people. I'll put it in their ad.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
If you've got trouble with your side, your squaw, we've
got pills for that.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
Well done,