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

Bum fluffs? Wtf?!! 😂 I think ‘pop’ is about as twee as I’d go, but I’ve always called it what it is and that is a fart.

I don’t get what is wrong with fart? Why it’s worse than pump or pop or guff when it all means the same thing. A bottom burp doesn’t smell any sweeter than a fart.

'Bum puff'😣 that's cringed me out so much and I don't know why

Can someone say why they don't like the word fart being used by little ones? Is it just embarrassing if they say it in public or something lol I don't really get it

Both fart and trump used in our house. Growing up mum made us say bottom smell. She never looks impressed DS uses other words for it.

In my family growing up my mum would say, did you pass gass.

My dad would say fart, shooting bunnies, or occasionally he's call it The Great Wind Maraiah.

They are divorced now.

When my kids were small we tended to say toot, though now more often we just say fart.

@MaxNormal

Teach her to say "I've dumped my guts".

That one at least won't get confused with blowjobs or shags.

🤣🤣🤣🤣

But 'pump' literally means to have sex, lol

Pump does not literally mean to have sex at all.

"lol"

Personally I don't see any reason to talk about it at all, but if you must and you can't say fart, it's passing wind IMO. Blow off is just as vulgar and has the added disadvantage of making my toes curl.

@Bimblybomeyelash

I don’t get what is wrong with fart? Why it’s worse than pump or pop or guff when it all means the same thing. A bottom burp doesn’t smell any sweeter than a fart.

I wonder if it might relate to word origins? For example sometimes old Saxon words were replaced by words with French origins, and the former came to be seen as vulgar. Or something like that.

That's pure speculation though.

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.

@Welshiefluff

But 'pump' literally means to have sex, lol

Pump does not literally mean to have sex at all.

"lol"

Well, yes, it does where I come from

It's otherwise known as a "pump and dump" - in other words, a ONS that leads to pregnancy.

We were never allowed to say fart growing up and my parents used 'blow off'. I hate hearing children say 'fart'. The funniest I've heard is my friend's family who call it 'letting Polly out of prison'. I'm definitely going to call them Garys from now on, though.

@Gentleness

Eggy biff.

Said in best Enid Blyton voice. Totally forgotten that one, you've just taken me right back to school.

How about a barking spider? As in,

'Was that you?'
'Absolutely not, there must be a barking spider in here.'

You can thank Kurt Vonnegut for that one.

Passing wind,

I hate every other word for it, especially fart which to me is very crude.

DD2 still lives with me and she thinks the same, but then, it is not a subject we would be speaking about anyway.

We just say 'let rip'.

The word 'pops' makes me feel sick, whe you adf windy to it I feel dirty and sick

Or another animal-blaming one:

'Excuse me, I must have stepped on a duck.'

@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.

I couldn't agree with this more. How is the word fart a vulgar word?? I'm honestly so confused

Pump does not literally mean to have sex at all

It very much does in Glasgow.

I am as certain as I can be that Chaucer would have been a fart man, although I can also imagine him writing hilarious verse eluding cleverly to the many possible permutations of the act.

@Waspsarearseholes

We were never allowed to say fart growing up and my parents used 'blow off'. I hate hearing children say 'fart'. The funniest I've heard is my friend's family who call it 'letting Polly out of prison'. I'm definitely going to call them Garys from now on, though.

Could you explain why you hate hearing children use the word fart? @Waspsarearseholes

Was reading this thread hoping to see that the one we used when DS was young was common... erm.. seems not. We used to say 'bottie burp' 🤣

@GertrudeKerfuffle

Or another animal-blaming one:

'Excuse me, I must have stepped on a duck.'

I say, "bloody hell, what have you been feeding the dog?!"

I'm laughing so much at this thread. Especially Gary 😂😂

It's a fart. Although I'm also partial to guffing or letting one rip (especially in the morning)

Had to say windy pops when I was a child. Fart was considered a swear word