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Friday 5...Bra Slang

18/4/2013

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Were we the types to do word clouds (which we totally know how to do but simply choose not to) it occurred to us that the stand out word this month might be 'bra'. Now hush, we aren't proud or nothing...OK maybe a little but we realised that there aren't many good pieces of slang for bras. Which is peculiar, seeing as their content has all kinds of slang that Squeamish Kate throws about semi-offensively. Baps, tits, boobies, puppies. So why no bra slang? Think about it, it is always bra, bra, bra. Unless we're feeling fancy and then it's brassiere. Ooh, so continental. Or if you're reading Germaine Greer on the subject of horse riding where she acknowledges a need for “boulder holders.” Because we hate repetition over here, or like to give the impression we do, we endeavoured to come up with some slang for bra. Use it, abuse it, suggest some more... 

1. I grew up with the American expression 'over the shoulder boulder holder', which I think Greer nicked from Judy Blume. I've also heard them called boob pockets, funbag handbags, and underwired Bastilles. That last one is obviously the best. F1Kate

2. I call tit-sling! Becky Shepherd

3. Woke up really excited at the beginning of the week thinking I had dreamed up a good bra name. But then it was Boulder Holder! Hmm. Squeamish Louise

4. I don't think I have ever heard a slang term for a bra. Which is odd since I went to an all girls catholic school and we seemed to have a phrase for everything female orientated in our lives AKA everything outside of Our Lord Jesus. And that's Mary. Since my life scarring run in with a strapless bra from Marks and Spencer (I should have ripped up the 30 quid gift voucher and sued!) I have chosen to evermore look unfavourably upon bras. I refer to the push up kind as "Chin cushion making, metal lined, lung crushing, flesh scarring, instruments of torture." I know, catchy right? Squeamish Nicola

5. Please don't give them a new name! 'Bra' is the only simple thing about them. They are difficult to buy, remove, adjust, and wash. Please think of the men! Why does nobody ever think of the men? Gareth
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Ren McEwan link
18/4/2013 06:39:28 pm

I remember my French teacher telling the class that in German a bra is known as a "Schtoppem Floppen".....

I believed him.. For a very long time.

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Red Rex
15/8/2014 10:09:49 pm

Stumbled here while looking for slang terms for brassier. My ex-wife called it a flopper-stopper. "The Trouble with Angels"--binders.

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