Is 'arse' a swear word?

kaypeejay · September 2023

EricTheWeary said:

I never say arse. Just doesn’t roll off the tongue, I sound like I’m doing a bad Fast Show type character.

In context Keegan sounds like an egotistical idiot, the swearing very much the least of it.

Cunt owes most of it's vulgarity to the British class system. It was a fairly ordinary word (used by Chaucer for example) but it's gradual replacement by the euphemism Vagina made it seem common and therefore considered vulgar. Odd really that vagina became the acceptable term, bit like a doctor saying they need to look at your frufru.
There were several Gropecunt Lanes/Roads in the UK. Mostly renamed Grape Lane or similar. Anyone walking around York, for example, going up Grape Lane and wondering what the city's connection to vineyards is have got it a bit wrong.

My grandmother used Tit as her only swear word. Which doesn't seem too bad but said with a great deal of venom, you didn't mess with her when she said that.

Well, you don't want arses rolling off your tongue do you? To get proper venom into the word arse, you have to pronounce it with a hard A. It has to be a Northern accent.

Where does Wazzock fit in, in this context?