To think "Blow off" is NOT more polite than "Fart"?

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We have a toddler. He has just learned the word "Fart". DH thinks we should teach him to say "Blow off" instead as it's nicer/more polite.

AIBU to think "Blow off" is a much worse term than "Fart"? It sounds very crude to me. It definitely doesn't sound to me like a polite euphemism and I'd rather just say "Fart".

YABU = "Blow off" sounds more polite than "Fart".
YANBU = "Blow off" sounds worse than "Fart".

We say toot with DD. She likes to announce when she's done a toot.

Pimping?

Blimey. I’d rather be accused of farting than pimping.

@Waiohwai

Nothing wrong with fart in my view. Loathe twee euphemisms. Heard one of my daughter's friends refer to a 'bottom burp', and now like to refer to burps as mouth farts. Not that I'm childish or anything.

Sounds very Rick Mayall

Remember that Bottom comedy

Blow off imo is worse than fart

We use toot when around kids

Trump.

Very appropriatein today's world.

Pump???? I’ve heard it all now.

My dp doesn’t like fart. It has to be ‘Trump’

Blow off sounds awful.

I've never heard blow off....

We say trump

This is so twee it’s making my teeth itch.

Also let’s be honest you can’t euphemise away the fact that a fart is smelly air from your bottom. Giving it twee language won’t magically make it smell nicer.

Try "who trod on a frog?" Useful for fart-deniers, although admittedly, not very catchy for toddler terminology.

I prefer trump

Not words often heard! The Americans we met just after the election were very amused by the double meaning of trump.

Crop dusting anyone? No? Ok, just fart then.

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This thread is killing me 😂

My ex in laws call both farts and bumps windy pops. It infuriates me and confuses the childrn3 who look puzzled and say 'No, I think that was a fart?'

My mum insisted on bottom burps. I don't think there's a polite term for it, but this thread has cheered me up after only 3 hours of sleep last night

@GreyishDays
Why be twee about the air coming out of your bum?

It's a fart
Because they will get told off at nursery or school for using it

Perhaps, but the point I was making was WHY?

Because it’s a slightly rude version, like crap is a bit rider than poo. Just not completely child friendly.
No euphemism required, just a slightly more polite version. For a ‘trump’ doesn’t mean anything else, so it’s not being twee or hiding what it is.

A fairly new member to the family asked his wee boy

"Have you dropped yer play-piece?"

(Play-piece being your school playtime snack)

Dodgy smell walking around the supermarket? ...

"Oops somebody's dropped their playpiece"

Love it and hate it equally!

My Granny used to say TRAF.... she was an art teacher and talked about teaching classrooms of smelly teenagers and that she sometimes would say very pointedly 'Does someone need the toilet?' and 'Has some one traffed?' I was 15 - bloody 15 before I realised that Traf was FART backwards!!

We were taught bottom burp as a child.

@FlowerPig

Never heard blow off being used. It makes me think of a blow job 🤷🏼‍♀️

This

Blow off to me sounds like someone ejeculated

Nothing wrong with fart

Blow off is a bit close to blow job...

When I was a child (Early 60s,Berkshire) children at school referred to blowing off. I said it in front of my parents once and was told off, I was told to say 'wind' but preferably never refer to it or even do it except in the toilet.

Haha. TRAF is hilarious. I'm also a fan of crop dusting.

I'm foreign and always assumed that fart was fine - maybe I've learnt it from American TV shows? Anyway, I used it in front of my husband's sister and young niece, and apparently later on she complained that I had taught her daughter a rude word.

My son calls farts bubbles because when he was really little and did one in the bath, bubbles came out and he said "I did a bubble!" with glee. I tend to call them bubbles or parps now, because they both amuse me.

It was always 'boff' as I was growing up!

We call toddler ds "farty pants" quite often. To be fair he has well and truly earnt the name.
We call them boffs mostly, or farts. Nursery call them trumps. Dh sometimes follows one up with "did you see that frog?! Bloody nightmare they are". Our household has been known to hold fart contests on a Sunday afternoon, post roast dinner! We are not twee!!