In not thinking that this is offensive?

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Just wondering...

In regards to kids, little munchkin, little fart, little squidger.. are any of these terms offensive? Somebody has just said it's not 'appropriate' to call anybody's baby a little fart.. but it's not like I said little brat? Or little shit? 😂
I would have thought little fart like munchkin is more of a cutesy term? AIBU???

Old fart is commonplace in my circle. But we are mostly 60-plus, so it's straightforward normal. But only among people of like age. From our younger relatives, a bit less.

I hear Old fart often @XingMing

OP you can call my DC 'little fart' in your adorable Irish accent. I won't mind at all.

Another Irish person saying I've never heard the phrase 'little fart' applied to a baby.

I wouldn't class it as mortally offensive. Just an odd, and a bit stupid, thing to say. It makes no sense & isn't nice.

Having seen the post where you used the term and the circumstance it was used about, I don’t think it was the nicest thing you could have chosen. A lot of it may come down to whether words have different regional connotations and are used colloquially to mean other things than their general meaning.

Personally, I’m currently 33+ weeks pregnant and wouldn’t be impressed if you called either of my bumps a ‘little fart’ but, if I chose to call one of them the same, it’s a completely different kettle of fish.

I've been known to say my child is an arse hole at times. Never to his face, though...

I'm Scottish and well educated, but I swear enthusiastically and with vigour.

No idea why people are clutching their pearls.

That’s nice, bookishtartlet. Also relieved to hear that you’re well educated, because that’s so relevant.

I'd say a squidger or a munchkin arent real things, they're similar to words people use around kids 'I want to munch him / squidge her cheeks'

A fart is an actual thing. An unpleasant thing! Like calling a kid a little shit?

@bookishtartlet I'm with you on this. Have called my dc many things but never to their face. I'm not sure why it's so offensive. I've never had any Pearls to clutch

Tbh my DD is a little squidger. If someone called her a little fart I'd think it was a bit weird but it would probably make me laugh and I wouldn't be offended. I call her a little poopmonkey at nappy time.

Ah it's just an Irish way of saying things! I wouldn't be offended! "Ye little fart ye" is commonly said in my house !

How is it in a different category though? When would you call somebody a little fart in an offensive way?

A fart comes out of your arse-it’s usually not a very positive word!

Could we get past the idea that all Irish people happily address strangers’ babies as ‘little fart’ because we are all so rollicking and uncultivated and sweary and earthy?

I’m from the same part of the world and the same social class as the OP, and while I couldn’t get particularly exercised about the expression either way, I have literally never heard anyone say this.

Yes, please.

I wouldn’t be too pleased with someone calling any of my kids this. Farts are not nice!

I'm from Dublin and have never heard anyone call a baby little fart. I think it's a horrible phrase to use for a baby. I'm not sure where you live OP, but it's obviously not as common an Irish thing as you thought, considering several Irish posters have never heard it before.

I see no issue with it really but it might be an irishy thing (I'm north but worked in Dublin for years) same as our ( loosely our I'm not very sweary) use of fuck off usually means you're kidding, fuck away off means no way get out of here lol, fuck me means I never knew that or surprised. Local language is a funny old thing

If it's a local term to use in Ireland,It must be ok,as lots of different areas of the counties in the uk use different terms to describe people, including babies. I have only ever heard of boring old fart here.describing,well an old person who is boring and tedious.

I’d call my baby and nephews and nieces little farts maybe at an odd time when I’m being a bit random and running out of cute terms.

But not a strangers kid or s friends kid as I don’t think it’s civilised talking about farts.

I would be offended if someone called my kids a little fart. I know my 8 and 6 year old would also be very offended themselves if someone said little fart to them. But saying that where I'm from calling someone a fart in my first language would be calling somone lazy or slow in getting their work done.

I wouldn't be offended OP, but can genuinely see why others would be.

My granddad is from Dublin and will call the grandkids little farts as an endearing term. But then he also uses little shite as an endearing term. DS is 11 weeks and whenever I walk in, he'll say oh grand, pass my little shite here will ya.

I think it's a dialect thing. My cousins from Kildare use fuck as every second word and it's not meant offensively. I think curse words are widely used and widely accepted as part of the vocabulary in Ireland.

In Australia calling something (object, creature etc) a fart means to refer to its smallness.

Strange

Where in Dublin is thus used? I am in my 40’s, born and reared in Dublin and have never heard anyone use the term. Either its something a handful of peopke you know that say it or as expected, you are quite literally talking out of your arse.