AIBU to think ‘Fart’ isn’t a swear word.

[Toddlerteaplease]

Aged 44, my mum had told me off for complaining that their cat farted, when sitting on my knee. Apparently fart is a swear word. 🤣🤔

You think bum is a vulgar word?

In the broad scheme of things I'd say 'shart' is worse than 'fart'. But beautifully describes what it's describing. My mum had never heard the term before my teenage DC elaborated in detail. I've rarely seen her laugh so much 😂

'Break wind'

Fave posh way of saying fart

I'm intrigued. I never would have considered fart being a swear word at all.

For those banned from saying fart as a child, were you just banned from talking about flatulence completely or were you allowed to mention it but only using a fluffy reference like pop or trump or something similar?

This will probably get deleted as it is down right now VULGAR and NSFW, but for anyone who wants a good laugh or is in the mood to feel viscerally around the notion of farts, behold: James Joyce’s Erotic Love Letter to his wife, Nora

https://genius.com/James-joyce-erotic-love-letter-dec-8-1909-annotated

Again, NSFW or if you are extremely uptight about Farting

It’s not a swear word. It always makes me giggle!

It's not a swear word as such but I wouldn't want DC repeating it. We were told not to say it. We got told to say John has let off instead.

For a person or me I might say have you done a stink, that’s what we used to say at home

for a cat, dog any other creature I would def call it a fart

This is amazing.

There was no problem talking about farts and the like in our house but you had to use euphemisms. There were loads of words like bogies we weren’t allowed to say, not only fart. We couldn’t use the word cancer because it wasn’t a nice word, for example. We weren’t allowed to say bunny, we had to say rabbit (so not much consistency.)
(My parents have always been out of their tiny minds, I am not suggesting this is anything but ridiculous.)

Loving the mid table movement in a discussion about, farts, crap and shit.

We're quite proper but unashamedly used fart at home. Elsewhere we'd have remained silent.

But, aged about 7, ds became potty mouthed and dh made him learn all the swear words, their spellings and definitions on the basis that that if he was using a word, he needed to understand its proper meaning. The only word he decided not to impart, was "bugger". An oft used word and usually thought fairly inoffensive but it really isn't.

However, aged about 11/12 the little bugger when told off for saying "fuck" just raised his eyebrow "oh for God's sake mum, it's just the Anglo Saxon word for copulation".

I bet you were brought up to say "pardon".
That would have done my head in.

I would never say that word to my mum

Oh same here. I can’t say it it makes me cringe.

fart is apparently one of the oldest English words. So its fair to say that its lingered.

I still remember the day our teacher farted so loudly the whole class laughed then she laughed then she peed and we all laughed some more.

We never did see her again but that’s a memory burnt into my brain.

Now that I’ve read through this I’ve actually remembered my grandparents telling us to say “blew off” instead of fart when we were little. You’ve made me chuckle with this post and unlocked a fart memory for me. Thanks ☺️🤣

I think might have been rude in the 1950s but everyone I know just says fart. So much better than twee euphemisms.

Absolutely not used in my “polite society circle”.

I only asked Tarquin the other day if he had fired off a “rectal retort”.

Oh my god, I can’t believe how many people are uptight about the word fart 🤣🤣🤣🤣

We're quite a modern/techy household, so prefer "push notification".

Fart is not a swear word but I do think we should be encouraging the use of ‘trump’ instead - purely because it annoys MAGAs and, very possibly, Dementia Don himself 😁

My dad married a woman who used the word "wooftie" - even at ten years old I thought that was ridiculous and refused to use it. (Her sons would use wooftie when around her, but I'm pretty confident that if the subject came up at school, they'd have said fart instead.)

I can remember being told off at home for saying "sitting on your fanny" - I'd picked that word up from the book Matilda, and couldn't understand why a word from that would be rude!

It is not at all impolite to say the cat farted. Jesus fucking wept (then farted).

That’s what we used to say when I was growing up. ‘Did you just blow off?’🤣