For hating the word 'fart?'

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This is something me and ex MIL had in common. AIBU?

Blowing off sounds decidedly not about farting.

Thanks to an old, long-forgotten cartoon quote, the accepted form of announcement in our house is to turn and glare at your own rear end whilst saying “Ex-CUSE my bottom” in the manner of the Dowager Duchess of Downton noticing a second footman wearing the wrong cravat at a ball.

We've got away with my kids calling them 'pumps' for 5 years but now my oldest has picked up 'fart' from school. I'm definitely going to try and steer them towards using the 'bum puff' as mentioned on this thread!

Pump, f.. t was swearing when I grew up. Can't bear that son says f.. t. I tell him I do delicate lady fluff's. 😂 Love puff/fluff means something very different 🤣

It’s a Foxtrot alpha Romeo tango in my house

As a teenager I had a friend whose mother was like Hyacinth Bucket.
We were sat in their "drawing room" and one of friends brothers let one rip. Mother entered seconds later and asked very brusquely "who's made a smell?"
I really struggled to contain my laughter at that 😂 🤣

Nobody else say "chuff"?

Excellent!

I sometimes use chuff as slang for female genitals.

I may be crude af.

Haha yes! I can’t associate it with anything except that.

“Want pumped?”
“Dave pumped Sharon in the toilet last night”

Definitely better than using it to describe a fart. 😂

chuff is definitely a fanny, as in 'colder than a penguin's chuff'

I wasn’t allowed to say fat growing up. It was like a swear lol.
we had to say pumps but that sounds so weird now and come to think of it I don’t like any word for it 😂 they all sound too weird lol

Cutting the 🧀 Cheese

Blowing a 🎺 Trumpet

Oh dear...this had me laughing so much I nearly did said 'blowing off'. My Gran used to use this term. Still laughing.

Musical hum anyone?

The fart is a volcanic eruption,
It comes from the mountain of bums,
It rolls down the valley of trousers,
and comes out in musical hums. 😁

It was a boff in our house growing up.

I don't have a problem with the word Fart in open minded friends circles or within my family,

But I wouldn't use this colloquial terminology

With people some ones who would percieve as offensive and common though

I know some family members would definitely have a problem with that word and would find it extremely common and offensive 🙄 too

I’ve never heard of a boff 😂
I feel like I need a new word to teach LO… I’m not keen on any of the words we had to use for certain things growing up lol

but wouldn't those people who'd be offended by the word fart probably be offended by any mention of wind, @Goodread1? They would probably stare tensely at the ceiling if one squeaked out in their company.

We we a bit posh so the nanny said we made "poo smell" I never liked it. My children fart! they think it's hilarious!!

@Bree82 it was shorthand for blow off 😂

A fart is a fart. Anything else comes across as Hyacinth Bucket trying to be genteel

It's an awful word and not allowed in our house.

My nephew taught DD the word Shart last week. Delightful and probably very offensive to OP.

In terms of just farts, I always thought fart was the adult word and pump or speaker were the children’s words?

• squeaker not speaker

But you’ve just dedicated a whole thread to them! 🤣