Period Nick Name

heretothere · 15-01-2021 2:13am #1

I was looking up re-usable sanitary pads and I read there are over 5000 nicknames for periods. What yours? Mine is TOM

LilacNails · 15-01-2021 9:57am

I'm Terrible Tom around again

Tauriel · 15-01-2021 10:00am

"Things"

I don't know whether I picked this up from my mom or from one of the girls at primary school but I have always said that I have got my things.

supermouse · 15-01-2021 7:59pm

heretothere wrote: »

I was looking up re-usable sanitary pads and I read there are over 5000 nicknames for periods. What yours? Mine is TOM

Shark week if I'm joking :pac: or just call it what it is - my period. Don't give it a nickname really, it's natural and doesn't need nicknames to hide behind or feed the shame surrounding it.

Also, if you are in the market for reusables I adore the ones from Annie Poo - Baba&Boo!

bitofabind · 21-01-2021 1:30pm

It's shark week or the Japanese have invaded

lucalux · 21-01-2021 1:32pm

Never had any nicknames for them myself, just call them periods, but I remember in school a lot of girls called them their 'yokes'. Anyone else hear that one?!

Always thought it was funny, like they were heading off to a rave or something

Idle Passerby · 21-01-2021 2:23pm

The Red menace, the Russians have invaded, the Japanese flag, surfing the crimson wave, crimson tide, the red wedding and riding the cotton pony. Can't say I'd ever have much call to use any of these descriptive terms unfortunately, easier to just say period.

Loveinapril · 21-01-2021 3:08pm

lucalux wrote: »

Never had any nicknames for them myself, just call them periods, but I remember in school a lot of girls called them their 'yokes'. Anyone else hear that one?!

Always thought it was funny, like they were heading off to a rave or something

Yeah, in school girls referred to them as their yokes or their flowers. I also remember girls saying they were "on the blob" or "on their rags". Pure mank! I just say my period but have heard some older women call it their monthlies, which is cute.

lucalux · 21-01-2021 3:12pm

Loveinapril wrote: »

Yeah, in school girls referred to them as their yokes or their flowers. I also remember girls saying they were "on the blob" or "on their rags". Pure mank! I just say my period but have heard some older women call it their monthlies, which is cute.

This is it, I always thought some of the terms used to describe were waayyyy worse than 'periods'!

I like monthlies, makes sense.

An older one again is your 'courses' or 'monthly courses'.

A hippy friend of mine used to call them her 'moonlies' which I did like tbh

notsoyoungwan · 26-01-2021 12:29pm

I just use the word period, tbh. Don’t see a need for any euphemisms or other terms.

A woman at work refers to them as her “things”, which I think is strange. And I remember a girl at school talking about ‘the curse’... that was the term and attitude she had before ever starting her periods, which struck me as a horribly negative attitude for her mother to pass on to her- she assumed that normal life would be suspended for days and that she’d be in utter agony- she took that as a given.

27-01-2021 7:19pm

Mostly just a period but sometimes I say I'm having a tired day, since I feel wrecked for two days before to two or three days in. I think I grew out of the dramatic euphemisms - or I'm too tired to remember them.

woodchuck · 29-01-2021 2:40pm

I don't beat around the bush. I just say I'm on my period. Or maybe that it's "that time of the month".

TheBoyConor · 04-02-2021 11:11pm

Maybe like in Bridgerton where a lady has her "courses".

And one thing I don't get is why a woman would be "on" her period. Would she not "have " it? Make more sense?

08-02-2021 12:51am

Gushing

Graces7 · 11-03-2021 12:27pm

Going back many decades.. "the curse" was in vogue.

miamee · 11-03-2021 4:34pm

I'd just say I have my period but I do find some of the euphemisms very entertaining like the painters are in or shark week or the commies have invaded, etc. I think I said to OH once that it was shark week to see his reaction...he didn't get it and I had to explain what I meant - waste of time :pac:

MadameHussein · 12-03-2021 5:07pm

I have always enjoyed "Munster are playing at home".

seenitall · 12-03-2021 6:08pm

Being dealt the Ace of Diamonds.♦️

ILoveYourVibes · 13-03-2021 6:43am

woodchuck wrote: »

I don't beat around the bush. I just say I'm on my period. Or maybe that it's "that time of the month".

I just say 'i'm bleeding from my crotch.'

:cool:

pwurple · 15-03-2021 1:54pm

I suppose it depends who I'm talking to.

For medical discussions it's Cycle Day 1-5.
In conversation with my husband, if he's heading that direction, it's "Scheduled Maintenance".
For my children, I call it period or monthly bleeding.
With my buddies, it's "The Blob"