Farting or blow off ?

[Cheekytea]

Help settle a argument for me

My two and half year old finds it very funny she farts she smiles and giggles and tells everyone she farted,
Hubby not so impressed I taught her to saying farting and thinks the respectful term to teach her is " blow off " or other phrases so I'm asking you all what do you call farting in your household ? And what do they say in school etc

Thanks

@shreddednips Slightly unrelated but along the same lines- my mother had a relative who was very uptight about small children saying they were full after a meal (no idea why) and insisted on them saying 'I've had an elegant sufficiency'

Haha DH used to say he had had an adequate sufficiency when he was full, haven't heard anyone say that in a long time!

[quote VienneseWhirligig]@shreddednips Slightly unrelated but along the same lines- my mother had a relative who was very uptight about small children saying they were full after a meal (no idea why) and insisted on them saying 'I've had an elegant sufficiency'

Haha DH used to say he had had an adequate sufficiency when he was full, haven't heard anyone say that in a long time![/quote]
Maybe your DH and I are related

There's nothing wrong with fart - it comes directly from the german farzen (fartsen). It is fortunate for all the Peters in the UK that we didn't take it from the french (Péter = to fart).

In our house we use "raspberry" (noun) or "blow a raspberry" (verb) from the rhyming slang "raspberry tart".

"Fart" is reserved for dad (preceded by "old")

We came upon our euphemism by accident. I thought the hot air balloon thing in the night garden was a ninky nonk ( I now know it was the pinky ponk) but I said to my Dh is that ninky nonk farting? And ever since they have been called ninky nonks.
Not because we don’t say fart, we do. Just a bit of family fun between us.

Windy pop

@TracyLords

Oh and we also call them parps! My mum used to say “burst off”

I'm getting Beano vibes from parp. I'm sure they would have a fart bubble with 'parp' in it.

Bum puffs 😂

It’s a fart. Blow off is gross as makes the mouth analogous to the anus. Pump is also grim, are you having to physically pump them out with your internal organs? The cutsie ones are less scary but still, I call a fart a fart.

Definitely not fart. It's a horrible word. We say blow off or plumped!

Following COP26 and the Methane Pledge which recognises that methane is 80 times worse for climate change than carbon dioxide and should be a higher priority for elimination, Alok Sharma is considering advice that we should all light our farts to turn the methane into carbon dioxide.

We referred to "letting off" as children in the 80s. Not sure we had a noun. Wouldn't have been allowed to say fart.

I'm only about 6, but I still chuckle whenever somebody has escaped an unpleasant experience and says "I've had an enormous let-off" or similar

I do think it's funny the people on here brusquely insisting that fart is 'the correct' word, without seeming to realise that it's far from the 'official' scientific term - flatulence - and is just one of several commonly-use informal words and phrases. It's a bit like the fierce arguments over whether you 'should' call your evening meal dinner or tea, or what you call a bread roll in your area - lots of variations and none of them are necessarily 'wrong'.

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

We referred to "letting off" as children in the 80s. Not sure we had a noun. Wouldn't have been allowed to say fart.

I'm only about 6, but I still chuckle whenever somebody has escaped an unpleasant experience and says "I've had an enormous let-off" or similar

I do think it's funny the people on here brusquely insisting that fart is 'the correct' word, without seeming to realise that it's far from the 'official' scientific term - flatulence - and is just one of several commonly-use informal words and phrases. It's a bit like the fierce arguments over whether you 'should' call your evening meal dinner or tea, or what you call a bread roll in your area - lots of variations and none of them are necessarily 'wrong'.

There's a song from the 00s by Seether and Amy Lee, and the first line is "I wanted you to know that I love the way you laugh". However, because of the way he drawls "laugh" in a sort of country singer way, it sounds like "I love the way you let off".

I've always laughed at it

Agree, fart isnt the nicest word. Suspect mn will be on your side op. Lots of 'pissing' here which I think sounds like something a drunk bloke in an alleyway would do.
Dd said something nicer than fart until she went to school, now it's poos, wees and farts all day long

My 7 year old says it’s a Poo ghosts or ghost poo. (PG)

Not seen it yet, so going to add 'done a rat'. What my family said when I was little.

DS called them puff puffs and we thought it was nicer than fart, now DD calls them that too so its kind of stuck. I think its nicer as they're still little, i'm sure that will change soon!

blow offs

We used to say bot-bot. As in "who's done a bot-bot".

@thepeopleversuswork

I'm just absolutely at a loss as to why fart is considered vulgar tbh. It's not a swear word. It's not even as offensive as most of these euphemisms. "Bottom burp" or "bottom puff" is far more of an active metaphor (and much nastier) than fart.

It's just tweeness/snobbishness for its own sake, really.

Why does any word come to be seen as vulgar, though? Some words take on that baggage, and others don't. Think of all the words for solid waste - excrement, poo, poop, shit, a log, turd, dung, feces, night-soil, crap.

Some are vulgar, some not. No good reason really.

Now, both farts and shit are bodily emanations that are somewhat disgusting to most normal people, for sensible biological reasons. So that's probably why those words are inclined to be used for vulgarity.

Fart or trump in our house but we often use parp in a jokey way.

I can't believe I've just read "bottom burp", that is disgusting. Bum puff is awful but funny at least.

Fart. My daughters also like to use the word 'guff' because they think it is hilarious.

This thread has given me a good giggle I had no idea so many people get so upset by the word 'fart'.

My 2 year old doesn't have a word for it yet but she laughs her head off when she does one and then imitates it by loudly blowing a raspberry 🤷‍♀️

Bottom burp

[quote VienneseWhirligig]@shreddednips Slightly unrelated but along the same lines- my mother had a relative who was very uptight about small children saying they were full after a meal (no idea why) and insisted on them saying 'I've had an elegant sufficiency'

Haha DH used to say he had had an adequate sufficiency when he was full, haven't heard anyone say that in a long time![/quote]
My Nana used to say that as well, apparently she learned it from her mother.

I wonder if it's regional?

@LobsterNapkin

Why does any word come to be seen as vulgar, though?

Well but in this case it seems just to be about a desperate attempt to euphemise anything that has to do with any bodily function.

I can understand people not wanting small children to use very strong words for parts of their anatomy/not wanting them to swear etc.

But this just seems so prudish and unecessary. You're taking a perfectly normal word which has been in use for hundreds of years, is not especially offensive and is universally understood and replacing it with ridiculously childish and often much nastier sounding euphemisms (bottom burp FFS). It's utterly ridiculous.