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".

Blow off means something VERY different to me.....(that i certainly wouldnt want a toddler saying!)

Never heard it to mean fart before, or thought fart was particularly rude?

I have never heard blow off to mean fart.

Oh no, what's wrong with pop? For some reason we say that to toddler and it's stuck!

Don't mind fart but it does literally sound like pop pop when she does

Hate blow off, though. My parents called it that I think

When DD1 was little, (she has SN) she created a whole set of terms for things. A pink slide was "it pink and we go wee" farts were "poo-bubbles". So she'd say "I did poo-bubble" when she farted.

"The NHS website uses the term "fart" when listing symptoms."

The new NHS has spent quite a lot of time simplifying language on its help pages. They use "pee", "poo", etc.

We probably use the worst one. Bomb. not sure where ds heard this but he refuses to call it anything else. I made a bomb is what he says.

When we were really young we had to say botty burp. Fills me with horror now 😂

Some teachers do have a problem with fart, DS1s Reception teacher told him and some of the other children off for it. Her preferred euphemism was trump and it’s transferred across to us as a family now. I didn’t care enough to investigate whether it was a school policy or just her

I have a friend who says fluff as in ‘I fluffed’.

For some reason I find 'pump' really disgusting. Also 'guff'.

We just say fart. My parents used to say 'pooped' but that is confusing since most people use it for poo.

I'd probably encourage 'passed gas' or 'broke wind' if a primary teacher had an issue (nursery haven't mentioned it so far).

Or parp, parp is probably my preferred twee substitute. I'll train her to say 'paaarrrrp' through so the primary teacher wishes they'd just got over 'fart'.

I did know a woman who was like we don’t use the f-word in our house (fair enough) and then I realised the f-word in question was fart.. I do think blow off sounds a bit primary school playground ish, where I am the local euphemism seems to be pump..

Fundamentally its just rude to talk about them at all. I also think its ridiculous to call a fart anything else other than it is

blow off is stupid for the simple reason that it's two words when one should do.

It’s fart, unless done while walking it which case it’s ‘crop dusting’ or ‘leaving a vapour trail’

Of course we have President Fart and Prime Minister Penis.

We used fluffs when I was a child. They are farts now.

We used to say 'fluff'

Guff in DH family , DS nickname Guffy pants!
Ploop in my family but fart fine too. Don’t like Blow off!

We tend to say fart or toot. I do agree that most other expressions are too twee.

As a child my mum told us to say popsie which is just SO cringe!!! It’s really embarrassing when you say something like that in front of other kids as well!

@MrJollyLivesNextDoor - yes we called it a fluff too! I truly thought everyone did until I met my husband.

Do you herald from South Wales by any chance?

I hate the word tbh so I'd never use it

Isn’t the polite term «pass wind» ? English is my second language

@rosegoldwatcher

Indeed I do 😃

I can 'trump' any of these euphemisms - when I was growing up we were so posh (!) my mother would ask 'who had gone off Foo?' I was about 14 before I heard the word Fart. Yep, really. (And no, we weren't posh at all)

rosegoldwatcher MrJollyLivesNextDoor
I'm from South Wales too and called it a fluff

Mother in law says “fluff” and it drives me crazy!

@TroysMammy @MrJollyLivesNextDoor - Yay!

It is far the best of all suggested words for an unpleasant but necessary function IMO!
When I rule the world we shall all call it a fluff.