To dislike the word "boob" used as verb?

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I'm prepared to be told I am and I don't even know what I don't like about it but I've heard someone say "I boob my baby to sleep" and "I was boobing my baby" and it makes me cringe. I don't know what bothers me about it but something does. AIBU?

I have never heard that.

Unless you object to the old (mostly American) meaning of 'boobed' as 'made a mistake': 'He really boobed there', you don't really object to the word being used as a verb.

YANBU it's unecessarily crass, you wouldn't say 'I bottled my baby to sleep', just 'fed' will do, it doesn't matter how you do it.

YANBU but I have never heard that.

I've only seen it written - on a Facebook page which is an off topic page but connected to one for breastfeeding support. I think I might be leaving the group!

"boobing my baby" just sounds awful - does anyone say it?

Hmmm...I use it. I think it's probably more accurate than fed sometimes, At home I offer DS a boob whenever he's a bit whinge/ ready for a nap. He uses it like other DC would use a dummy. There's not necessarily always milk in it though.

I do know what you mean Strawberry, it's not always about nutrition. I think the American "nursing" is sometimes more relevant as it's not specific to providing food.

Yuck. I have never heard that, thank God.

There was a thread the other day started by someone who hated the expression. I said then that it was the use of a noun as a verb I didn't like :)
YANBU.
However badtine is BU as it's clear the Op objects to the noun 'boob', slang for breast, being used as a verb, not the use of the verb to boob meaning to make an error. Two different things, as she/he very well knows.

I've never heard it used like that, but if I did it'd make me cringe.

YANBU

We use it...I will tell my babies that it's time to boob, or DH will ask if they need boob not that they answer because they are 6mths old and if they are poorly I'll say that I'm boobing them. In the home environment it's just a casual/slang thing

Yabu. I use it in that way. I'm on bf Facebook group when people often say 'keep on boobing' and I think it's a really cute expression.

I breastfed my daughter. I dint do shit with 'boobing'. HTH.

the only time i've heard it is on a meme "You may be thinner, tanner and blonder than me, but i outboob you on every level"

YANBU I've never heard it before and like TheFreaks it just makes me feel a bit cringy.

Cringeworthy.

It probably doesn't help that I don't like "boob" or "boobie" or anything like that. Perhaps because mine are barely there. But what I do have are breasts. Even so I wouldn't say "I'm breasting my baby".

I hate it too!! I see it in the context of "baby is sick but I boobed him to sleep"

No no no!

I just used to call it breastaurant no confusion then.

What about 'side boob', that's pretty annoying.

I use it - usually to say "she needs boobing to sleep" as it makes it clear that I'm the only person who can do it.

However YANBU to dislike it. Feel free :)