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

It’s just farted in our family. Same for me growing up. I had literally no idea that anyone considered it akin to a swear word until MiL was utterly aghast when she heard DS say it and was shocked that I couldn’t see the problem (we get on very well). My DH wasn’t allowed to say it growing up - they had to say ‘trump’. I’ve wondered if it’s a regional thing to not like fart? She’s from South Yorks whereas my family are from the south. No idea if there’s anything in it though!

Toots

Fart, Trump, let rip are all acceptable in our house.

"Blowing off" sounds like a London thing to me as MIL used to say it and she was Cockney.

Pump makes me cringe.

Fart here.

The staff at DS's school taught him to say trump instead. We soon put a stop to that, at least at home!!

Bottom/ botty burp or trump here.

Poop for younger kids then fart. Or bum trumpet if they make a noise 🤣

Why do you have to call it anything?? Why talk about it/draw attention to it? Filthy.

@BabyofMine

Blow off makes me think of fellatio. I say fart. Pump makes me squeamish with embarrassment, no idea why.

It's because pumping sounds sexual too.

Trump

We say fart.

When I was growing up we were always told to say blowing off, but I couldn't bring myself to say that as an adult!

I hate the term pumping, it just sounds so wrong to me.

Sometimes we laugh with my toddler about his 'poppy bum' as he has a habit of letting off huge streams of them while we are cuddling or doing anything active.

My husband and I sometimes jokingly call them love puffs, particularly when one of us is telling the other how gross they are to have done it in the bed! Obvs wouldnt use that phrase with anyone else though haha!

I'm a nurse so have heard it referred to as all sorts and I have very few boundries when it comes to talking about bodily functions.

A patient once spent a long time trying to think of an acceptable term to use when telling me about wind, eventually said oh I dunno what to say it in a way that isnt crass, except the gas from my behind. I said oh you mean farts, he was so happy I was willing to use that word 🤣

Trump for a noisy one; SBD for a noxious whiff "silent but deadly".

If anyone comments after an SBD "whoever smelt it dealt it".

@CallMeK

Why do you have to call it anything?? Why talk about it/draw attention to it? Filthy.

FILTHY

to Gary
I instantly pictured Gaarry from Only fools and horses

We used to call them stinkypuffs when our boys were little, but they started calling them farts later of course. Growing up we weren't allowed to say fart - only breaking wind or blow-off. But then we weren't allowed to say 'belly' either as my mum thought it was vulgar. She preferred 'tummy!' We've always let our children say 'belly', it's a lovely word!

Farting. Or breaking wind if I’m feeling polite

To me, farting is an unpleasant thing so to give it a cutesy name (I’ve heard it called a ‘windy pop’ before but ‘bum puff’ might be worse ) that makes it sound like a nice thing is very strange.

We all actively try not to break wind in front of each other though. I am aware that lots of people have no issue with it but I think it’s gross.

@hibye123 - I guess it's because I was brought up not allowed to say it. It was on the same level as 'crap' when I was young, so a pretty low down swear but neither are words I'd be happy for my two year old to say.

We say toot or many trump

@CallMeK

Why do you have to call it anything?? Why talk about it/draw attention to it? Filthy.

This thread is getting better and better 😂

@AutumnAnn

We say toot or many trump

*Maybe trump

After typing my previous message I realised I do say a twee term for farting

When ds farts sometimes I tell him he has a fruity booty.

Not acceptable in our household unless an accident. You're expected to go outside, bathroom etc rather than expose others to the stink of your bowels.

Fruity booty? 😂🤣😂

We were brought up thinking 'fart' was a swear word and we called them 'blow offs' - awful.

My kids call them 'hot ones'.

We were never allowed to say part and used to say we'd "let off".

A friend used to used the phrase "botty burps" with her toddler

Nowadays it's "Barking spiders!", followed by 'stomp it, kill it' with appropriate foot stomping. This is 'en famille' only. But I was raised that farting simply did not exist and if one was 'forced' to acknowledge it the only appropriate thing to do was to waft one's hand in front of one's face and give a hard stare at the person next to one. DH's family was much more realistic and it was usually finger-pinched nostrils and "Whew, who cut the cheese?".

Surely it entirely depends on what was normal I. Your house? It’s was fluffs in my house and no one said farted, it sounds really vulgar to me as I’m not used to hearing it. My mum still says fluff.

I use an assortment of silly things with my two (fluffy stinker, stinker bums) but couldn’t bring myself to say fart. Would feel like swearing.

I don’t think fart is anymore official than any other term and surely isn’t the medical term. I just think the nhs pages were updated to use an accepted normal language to avoid ambiguity. My friend was asked by a midwife if she’d had any trouble passing gas after her birth and she thought she wanted the heating on no midwife/dr has asked if I’m farting ok though!