Is 'fart' a vulgar or coarse word?

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My OH says yes.. I'm astonished it could be considered vulgar. He would prefer I use guff or trump, I've always thought they were on the same level...

So mumsnetters, is 'fart' acceptable and if not what do you use instead?

I say pump and so does my little one. My teen says fart and DH says trump - hate both of those (words not the people! 😂) They have strict instructions not to use them in front of 3 year old as she repeats everything!

I wasn't allowed to say fart at home as DM, who is quite prim, considered it both vulgar & coarse. I happily say it at home now because I can, as do the DC.

I love the QE1 story

My two year old currently calls it a "poo-pop"!

Yes I think it’s vulgar. So is guff.

We say blown off or wind. The children say popped

I was brought up to say “break wind” or “pass wind”, but my DM is the kind of woman who is utterly scandalised by the word ‘knackered’ because she thinks it has sexual connotations, so that should provide some perspective.

growing up fart was a swear word to me. certainly us kids were not allowed to say it. but DH's family total opposite. we come from the same town!

Fart is fine. Nothing wrong with it.

I know some people think it is crude, but the other names farting is given are cringe-worthy and ridiculous. Gift, pump, fluff, toot, fairy puff, trump etc. are utterly ridiculous.

Mind you, it is true to say tha Donald Trump is a stupid fart, and President Fart does have a ring of truth to it.

Those of you who don’t use Fart - what on Earth do you call it then?

topseyt gift? That’s a great alternative

Yes it's very vulgar. In my household we refer to 'passing wind'. We are quite posh though.

There are a lot of people who consider it swearing akin to "shit". Not awful but horrid but horrible comimg out of a child's mouth and to be reprimanded.

I dont know whats better though :(

I'm really chuckling at this thread. But then farts and fart talk are funny no matter what age we are, right? When I was younger fart was a swear word. But now it is just another word. They use it in kids t.v. shows and films. Bum laugh has actually made me giggle enough for my daughter to ask. We are now discussing alternative fart words.

As kids we had to say "blow off".
To me a guff is what stinky boys did in class in primary school.
Fart does what it says on the tin !

Shit mist? Green fog? Grunts? Botty burps? Air biscuit? O ring oboe?

Ok - slow to post there - can see most people have answered now!

Those of you that find farting embarrassing or vulgar and can’t mention it at home - why? What is so crude about it? What word do you use for Poo then? If people cheerfully discuss going for a Poo - then why is Farting so much worse?

I wasn't allowed to use the word growing up. It was a pop or a blow off.

Bloody ridiculous. I say it now, my kids say it now. They're polite enough to not use it in the company of others.

Crap was also a banned word.

I say fuck, shit etc in front of my kids. They're teenagers and I've never heard them swear, they are massive prudes! Probably means they'll make their kids use words like windy pops etc!

Fart-but no real need to call it anything very much surely?

We are a ‘fart’ household , but I wasn’t allowed to say it as a child myself. I wasn’t allowed to say bum either.

My mother desperately wanted to be genteel (despite living in a council house ) so we had to say blow off.

She died decades ago,which is probably a good thing as I am very much not genteel and we use fart. She would have been mortified.

Fart is definitely used by posh people. It's middle class people who think you should bodily functions. Pearls get clutches etc.

(She was so genteel she also refused to be called mum. Hyacinth Bouquet might have jollied her out of all that...)

*you should not refer to bodily functions I meant.

I hate it. We say “toot.

The posher you are the more basic and Anglo Saxon your language.

We were told fart was a swear word growing up, albeit a mild one. We called them poops