To just call a fanny a fanny?

[teafortoads]

Apologies if this has been done before/to death but i am new to this Mumsnet Lark (posting not lurking, I have happily lurked for years). What on earth word do you give to your toddler to describe their girl parts? I have and always will, have a fanny, where as I am aware of friends who have foofs, fairies (could cause some confusion when you go to put the fairy on top of the Christmas tree) lady gardens vulvas and so on. I see no reason to pretty things up, and always arrive back at good old trusty fanny in the end having massively overthunk things. When DD2 is a little bit older I will furnish her with all the proper words, but are fanny and willie (not that she will encounter any of THOSE until she is at least 40 given that I am a single Mum and our house is happily a man free zone nowadays, and boyfriends will not be permitted until she is at least 40) acceptable? Is fanny a bit coarse?

'I've got an itchy fanny', just sounds so horribly crude though. It's the sort of thing we'd say to each-other as teens in a really strong put-on regional accent to make each-other squirm (I can hear it now in my head).

Oops I never realised the word Fanny was so offensive, I use it all the time. But then I grew up in an area where the word knackered means really tired.

What else does knackered mean? I clearly come from a part of the country that's managed to evolve a whole vocabulary of aberrant words.

knackered

What fresh hell is this? What else does it mean?

Flop thanks for making me spit coffee all over the cafe!

Agree the MN 'fanjo' is a good one, and surely can't offend anyone? Problem is whether non MNers would understand it!

What? Knackered does mean really tired

Misnomer, I understand knackered means a chap has ejaculated. I.e. emptied his knackers.

According to my dh and mil it means something along the lines of exhausted from having sex.

We use fanny and Mr winky with our four year old. Didn't realise it was inappropriate. As for the Mr I have no idea why he is Mr not a master or just plain winky.
(Lol just have to make sure I check this message too before I post as they autocorrect wanted to change winky to some that is definitely not pc.)

Some people do use knackered to mean sexually knackered

Knackered just means really tired round here too... I've never heard it to mean THAT before

I had no idea that Fanny was considered terribly vulgar in Scotland.
I use the term all the time and especially when trying to hurry up DS and telling him to stop 'fannying about'.

What's really weird is my DH is originally Glaswegian and he's never commented....

Which is certainly what I wasn't when I told the health visitor I was knackered During ds's home visit.

Well that's funny because I regularly described myself as knackered when I was pregnant.

I wonder how many people were laughing at me.

I think fannying around is different though Crushed, I use it all the time and etymologically I'm not sure they have the same root.

Thinking about it though, I also use arsing around, so maybe they do!

'front bottom' is the worst of all.

knackered I never realised thats what it meant!!! I use it most days to mean I am very tired

To me fanny is like cock or dick - a swear word I suppose. I hate people calling it 'front bottom' it makes me cringe so much. Awful. Vulva sounds weird when little kids say it, I really don't like it. I say 'vajayjay' usually. 'Minnie' is one I hear as well.

MattDillonsPants is spot on, imo.

Am interested in all the posters who claim their daughters never need to refer to their vulvas.

We go with 'fanny' in our house (but we won't if we go to Scotland, having read this thread), so DD (5) will shout say "My fanny is itchy", or "my fanny is eating my knickers all up. I have a hungry fanny" (a particular favourite at the playground).

She refers to it several times a day, as she feels it's important to share how it's feeling, because it's an important part of her.

We say 'little bit', but the DC also know the word vagina so they can choose which they want to use.

Lots of friends use 'tuppence.'

Fanny is not something we'd ever use. It doesn't sound nice to me, and I wouldn't like to hear children saying it.

Where I'm from knackered means tired as in 'ready for the knackers yard' or being 'taken to the knackers yard'. I'm thinking that there aren't knackers yards elsewhere then?!

I thought knackered was derived from the knackers yard i.e. where horses get taken when they're old and tired?

Just remembered one of my friends says 'bajingo' I think it was used on Scrubs, it sounds funny