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".

I can't stand the word "fart" so we say "pass wind".

But I grew up in a house where we used a Dutch word to talk about pee (which I only discovered when I went to school and I have no idea how to spell it) and poop was called "motions" so I've got some baggage.

It's called a "love puff". That's science.

Although now that I think of it, we did call it "popping" for a while after my tiny sister passed wind extremely loudly one time and exclaimed in astonishment "I popped!"

They were always 'boffs' when I was little too but trump really is the perfect word for it. Either that or anal announcement.

Pump is the worst, it’s way more graphic than fart!

Anal Announcement is very polite, or Rectal Recital.

In my family we said "creak" as in "Has somebody just creaked?" I had no idea it wasn't a standard word when I was a kid. Though everyone else called it a trump, which I found faintly rude — seems much more forced, volitional and musical than the passive "creak".

Never heard "blow off" before, but it makes me think of someone deliberately spraying their fart as far and wide as possible. No word for fart should ever make one have to picture the actual gases and sphincter action involved, and blow off does.

"Pump" makes me feel like the person must be forcing it out deliberately, just to piss everyone off. Possibly with a bit of poo.

"Guff" is a bit crude. And a bit too reminiscent of the sound of one of those hot airy seepy ones. "Pop" brings to mind one of those arse-cheek-slapping ones that actually stings slightly. "Poop" is just silly. "Bottom burps" makes me think of a fart coming out of my mouth, which makes me feel sick. "Windypops" is for babies and means burping to me anyway. Anything which involves food e.g. "air biscuit" is nauseating. "Fluff" is horribly twee and makes he think of one of those soft hot ones.

There is no good option.

My parents said "blow off" but we did use "fart" as well once we were bigger kids.

My daughter says "puff" and her friends look baffled.

I don't like either of them, our toddler says "trump" or "passes wind"

Oh I love "guff"!

Windy pop!

Hm I've just realised that we didn't talk about this as a family. I knew my mother sometimes went for walks by herself and i somehow knew it was to pass gas. I heard the kids at school talk about it, but we never did. Nowadays my oh and I refer either to "the fug" or "the duck".

I think pump sounds gross. My brother used to call them guffs in the eighties. My stepdad made us say, 'I've just let the cat out of the bag.' Which was stupid anyway. A fart is a fart is a fart.

Also, did anybody else have relatives that would fart into there hand, then shove it in your face?!

*their

My mum used to insist on calling it “bump”

I could just about get away with blow off but fart would get me a smacked bottom.

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To my mind, "Fart" seems like a fairly neutral term. "Blowing off" on the other hand conjures up mental images of air blowing out of someone'a bum so I don't think it sounds polite/sophisticated like DH seems to think it does.

There is no way whatever that you can talk about a fart in a way that sounds sophisticated.......

Farts are crude, whichever way you talk about them. (But funny as hell at times )

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I find the euphemisms slightly disgust me. Particularly ‘blow off’. Toot, fluff, parp, pump, trump are all ridiculously twee.

Stick with fart. It was good enough for Chaucer.

So was Cunt(e).

Doesn't mean I'd use it in front of a Nun, though (and I have met several at work).

DM says 'Who let Polly out of prison'

We say 'fart'

DS teachers were mightily offended when he innocently used the word 'fart'

Brought up saying 'blow off' then 'trump'. Fart was a swear word in the 80s for us.

DH says 'popped off' and I hate it. I taught DD 'fart' and just use that now.

@73kittycat73 YES!! My brother used to enjoy handing out "cupcakes" - fart in his hand, cup it then waft it right into your mouth/nose... We're a classy bunch 🤣

It's funny how some of these words are used though Guff means shit and Boff means shag here. I'd be mighty confused if the kids started using those!!

I absolutely hate the word "fart"

I think it's crude, along with words like pump, trump and so on. If I had to refer to it I would say passing wind.

I don't care if anyone thinks I'm being ridiculous, we don't really say anything as it's never referred to in any way.

Where I'm from boff means to puke.

Blow off is awful! I'm not keen on fart for toddlers either though. We're using toot at the moment with our toddler.