To think "smashing" is a thoroughly underused word these days?

[turquoise]

My colleague (fabulous old boy, clearly had a whale of a time in the sixties) used it today and I thought, you just don't hear that enough!

Even better - "smasher", as in he/she's a smasher.

[castille]

Oh I use it lots

That's a smashing top/picture/piece of work

Smashing dinner, DH

What a smashing boy

[pagwatch]

I miss 'beastly'

'don't be beastly marjorie'.
so malory towers

[turquoise]

Oh yes beastly, excellent.

I am turning more and more Joyce Grenfell as I embrace middle age.

[2shoes]

fab
I like that word. as in m shadows is fab

[2shoes]

smashing thread. it has made me smile

[castille]

Oh my lovely and much missed great aunt used to say beastly all the time

that's a beast of a jar, I can't get the lid off / I've got a beastly rash... that sort of thing

She was FAB, I miss her

[SheikYerbouti]

I say "rotter" and "golly" a lot. I have been known to tell DS1 not to be beastly to DS2 as well.

It's my inner 1950s public schoolgirl fighting her way out through my tough, brummie outer shell

[turquoise]

Something about smashing though - it's not so jolly hockey sticks, it's just - smashing. In a class of it's own.

[MaureenMLove]

My favourite saying is, 'well I'll be jiggered!'

[SheikYerbouti]

Jolly.

As I "I jolly well will"

[ButterflyMcQueen]

pagwatch i use 'beastly' my children love it

its soooo Brideshead - Cordelia used it a lot!

[DaDaDa]

I use smashing/smasher. Cracking and cracker too. I am not posh.

How about 'belting'? Think that might be a northern thing.

[BoysAreLikeDogs]

Awfully.

Truly.

Jolly good.

[jolly hockeys sticks at the ready]

[random]

I told my GS(3) he was a smashing boy ..he replied Im not a smashing boy I'm a fixed together boy

[BoysAreLikeDogs]

Awwww

[Fanella]

I like smashing. It's ever so-ever so.

random

[wilbur]

I think splendid should be used more. I am planning a splendid party at the moment.

[turquoise]

DDD I use 'cracking' and 'belter' too. Think it is quite northern (dad was from Bury).

[Heifer]

what poppycock

[ButterflyMcQueen]

i sometimes say 'gadzooks'

[uptomyeyes]

A couple of years ago DS1 wrote to father Christmas:

"Dear Father Christmas...I've been smashing this year" ...aaawww

[UnderRated]

Ooo yes, smashing is a great word.

I use crikey quite a lot. And goodness (as in, Oh my goodness)

I like rotter, splendid and super too.

[cocolepew]

Gosh or crumbs.