Bups.

[Captain Caveman]

Is it only me who uses the term "Bups"? (As in "Bikkys with bups on" e.g. Lincoln biscuits?)

Isn't it a technical term used to describe bups? The curved raised bits found on those biscuits and on other things?

 

[Milktalk]

Bups mg

 

[tree]

Lincoln biscuit - Wikipedia

 

[Captain Caveman]

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Lincoln biscuit - Wikipedia

The raised curved dots are called "Bups". I have always called them that. The word does not seem to be in the dictionary?

 

[Mary Terry]

Wouldn't those be "bumps"?

 

[Captain Caveman]

Wouldn't those be "bumps"?

Not quite as their shape is more like bups? (Pronounced something like "Boops?")

 

[tree]

Not quite as their shape is more like bups. (Pronounced "Buups" or "Boops?")

Have you ever seen the word used that way in print?
Or heard any other person use it?

How long have you used this word?
Since childhood?
Or what?

 

[Captain Caveman]

Have you ever seen the word used that way in print?
Or heard any other person use it?

How long have you used this word?
Since childhood?
Or what?

Seen it in print here.


Think I have heard my brother use the word, and my Mum, though she may have learned it from me, but other people seemed to know what I meant so I assumed it was a normal word? Isn't it a technical term for raised rounded dimples?
I first started using it when I learned how to talk so I have used it for a long time.

 

[tree]

If it were a technical term I believe it would be listed in a dictionary definition.

What it looks like is a word a child uses when they can't quite pronounce
another word.

 

[Captain Caveman]

If it were a technical term I believe it would be listed in a dictionary definition.

What it looks like is a word a child uses when they can't quite pronounce
another word.

Probably me!

 

[Mary Terry]

Probably me!

My parents said that one of my first words was "bopple". It meant pickle.