I see your Tuppence Middleton and raise you Lawrence Eagleburger.
You’re discussing posh people. They aren’t real.
It’s especially weird considering that when I was young older British people used it as a polite euphemism for vagina.
“Tuppence”? seriously?
Yep.
Edit: In fact, to verify this wasn’t just some sort of slang specific to my older relatives I did a quick search for “tuppence slang” and was immediately confronted with numerous newspaper op-eds so awful I never want to read anything ever again.
For verification only, major cognitohazard, NSFW discussion, unbearable cringe
if I hadn’t clicked through I would have missed the illustration
The vagina has a bow and eyelashes so you know it’s a girl.
Never fails.
And the penis has a quiff so you know it’s Jimmy Neutron.
So that’s the big brain people were always referring to
Penis and Vagina sound like partners in an adversarial law firm
They did? I thought it was “minge”
Minge is more modern as far as I’ve ever heard and definitelya lot ruder.
There are many British slang words for genitalia.
Jim Sterling has used it that way on podcasts before.
I’m just imagining her being a Victorian sex worker with a heavy Cockney accent.