Boobing... is this a bad term to use??

[Goodgollymiss]

Just been playing in my mind a little bit (slow day I guess).. just read on another post that people find the term boobing (breastfeeding) offensive, cringy, chav etc... I had NO idea.. I think I prob use this term alot... is this really a terrible word?

Yes horrible term to use

Absolutely awful. I don’t understand what’s wrong with just saying “feeding”.

How about titting or mammary glanding your baby

Breastfeeding is a perfectly nice word, or "feeding" works. "Boobing" sounds like an old auntie's euphemism for farting.

Sorry.. am I able to turn off voting?

I guess yabu - it's awful, please stop
Yabu - it's a normal expression

i don't like it.

It's definitely cringey, but not offensive.

I agree it's like hollibobs.

Stop it. Now.

Awful! It's not clever or funny at all.

Yuch.

Do your friends who bottle feed call it 'bottling'?

As in "I'm just bottling the baby". "I bottled her to sleep".

No.

Stop using 'boobing'. It makes you sound ridiculous.

It's not offensive, it's just cringey because it's one of those words that sounds like a babyish word a toddler would use. Sounds fine from a toddler (who will grow out of it), but not from a grown woman.

If someone said that to me I’d assume they were talking about making a huge mistake - a boob. It wouldn’t occur to me that you meant breast feeding a baby.
In fact, I’d probably assume you were a bit dim and didn’t know the right word. Sorry!

Toddlers use boob? Who knew. That’s weird.

I was boobing the bubba while the hubster booked our holibobs with the famalam.

I'm way over thinking this now but I think Its used more in my house asshe needs some boob or _is she looking for boob .. i feel like i say boob alot is boob ok? Is it just the ing at the end or the word!...

I'm really not a fan of the phrase. I fed my baby, I did not 'boob' him

I BF myself and cringe when I hear others say ‘they’re giving the baby some boob’ or similar. It’s pretty grim imo, sorry OP x

Doesn't offend me but does make me cringe 🤦

I think a boob is a sniggery sort of word for a breast so I find it oddly sexualising in a yukky Benny Hill kind of way.

God. how attention seeking to use the word like that.

Benny Hill-ish? Exactly.

Is this for real?

To be honest I just find it a bit crass , I'm honestly not remotely a prude but just why?

Honestly I find it a bit attention seeking , which I'm usually alright with, nothing wrong with a bit of attention but for using the word boob? Ergh

Don’t want to be wasting my time.