Concert for Diana

[communistworkethic]

Is anyone getting the hint that our Gerts is up the duff

er yeah, sh has said it on more than one ocassion

[Montreal Wanderer]

Is anyone getting the hint that our Gerts is up the duff

I might - if I had the slightest clue what that meant.

Without frills; "pregnant". Which she's already declared several times.

Thanks, while you were answering, I was checking - it is actually (originally) Australian slang. There is some suggestion that duff is a variant of dough (as Sluffy could tell us) and that there is some connection with "bun in the oven". Still, it wasn't in common parlance when I lived in England forty years ago. Not that I could ever think of Gertie as "up the duff" - enceinte perhaps.

[Bruce Rioja]

deification.

Can I just nominate Batty for word of the year, here? Although I'm not sure as to whether it's a noun or an adjective. Monty?

Sorry - didn't get to this earlier, yesterday being Canada Day. Zulu would be correct - a noun from the verb deify or deificate (believe it or not the latter is not scatological) - adjectives being deific, deificatory, etc.

Cheers, Monty. Not that I doubted Zulu or owt, you understand.

[TANGODANCER]

[. Not that I could ever think of Gertie as "up the duff" - enceinte perhaps.

Spanish have the best word for pregnant :"embarazada". Caused a few laughs in its time I can assure you. Oh, and "in the club" is probably most common here these days.