to ask what you call farts?

[melonandpapayaandmango]

I just noticed on the other thread there was a reference to a pump - AIBU or is this a horrible word?

They are farts in this house but I tell DD and DS1 to not do them in public or talk about them. DD's nursery call them trumps and I wish they wouldn't as she laughs like a loon at Nellie the Elephant now ...

Fart for the adults and pops for the children. Although as kids, all my family called a fart a fart. DH was always 'pop'.

We called them 'little blows' when dd was a baby. It's kind of stuck with us.
Helenthemadex - botty pops is cute

I think knackeredmother has hit the nail on the head, at least for me. Fart would have been considered swearing when I grew up. Somehow that's stuck with me, and although I do sometimes swear now (as long as my parents aren't in ear shot, of course!), I would never use the word fart with my DCs and wouldn't like to hear hem use it.

BTW, one of my DCs favourite books is Farley Farts, but when we read it, we change it to Farley Pumps. DD(5) is learning to read, though, so I'm sure it won't be long before she realises we're not reading it absolutely accurately .

YANBU 'pump' is horrible and I would not use it for that (in certain parts of the world the word pump is known as a fuck).

celticolympian Sunderland with Irish parents.

It's not regional then. Wonder where that comes from!

I call them passing wind, OH calls them bum burps and DD calls them fart

Tree frogs
As in:
DH, with shifty look - "those tree frogs are loud tonight"
Can't remember where that started
DSs say pump - that's DH's Northern lingo

DH and I call them farts, but when within earshot of little DD they are known as 'The Pops.'

ds(2) calls them burpies (same as real burps)

Windy pops here too, I did try to stick with 'passing wind' but a trip to my In Laws changed all that I am just glad the kids picked up on FIL's windy pops instead of BIL's trumped

Farts. Although they weren't really mentioned at home (my mother probably said 'passing wind') I don't think I heard any of the euphemisms until I was 30+ and was surprised to hear other mothers using them. I find 'trump' etc totally twee and weird.

I also really dislike the word fart, I just find it really ugly and it makes me cringe.

Same as redexpat when I was growing up we called them pruts but from French background not Danish so maybe this is a word used across many European countries?

I find it a much nicer word.

Another northerner here. Fart was as bad as bugger when I was little. Pump was used instead. mother would clip me now if I said fart infrint of her.

Trouser puffs csijanner you just made my night

Grunts.

Stuntgirl - funnily enough I do live in Hull. How can you tell? Do you live down the rowad? Maybe our children go to the same skewell. Oh dear, I'm going to get into so much trouble!

I'm welsh and we also call them 'fluffs' (must just be a welsh term). As in 'who's fluffed?', 'will you please stop fluffing?', 'I'm extremely fluffy this evening (this is usually me, as I'm the fluffer champion in our house)' etc

Fluff - marvellous word

"Pumps" or "fluffs" in our family. "Fart" is too crude, and still a swear word to me. For those who seem to think it is the "correct" term, the real (medical) word is "flatus".

We use the term "lay a rotten egg". for example if ds farts he will announce " I've just laid a rotten egg!"

fireman sam The "kirk" was a dead giveaway!

Farts. I can't bear fluffy euphemisms for them, they make me vom

bottom burps