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

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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. 🤣🤔

Pah! You should hear some of the language mine uses with me! 🤣

Abso-fucking-lutely 😁 it’s a bottom if you must talk about it.

Exactly, shit and piss are in the same category. I also find pee a bit impolite. People usually said wee when I was little, grownups said going to bathroom/loo/toilet etc. and blokes in pubs said pee or worse

Not a swear word.

But also not a nice word and I wouldn’t use it in polite conversation

I'll happily use the word cunt but absolutely hate the word fart! People get told off in my house for using it!

I'm not generally a fan of the word fart. We didn't use it at home when we were wee. We weren't allowed to say bum either. Had to be bot or botty 😬
We've always used (the exceptionally twee) windy pop. But my daughter (age 5) learned the word fart at school and says it gleefully and frequently. Even worse, she's now started saying butt and butt cheeks, which I really dislike. Bum is a much better word.

But I almost died laughing at the post above about the Earl of Oxford!

Ooo flung dung? 💩

Acceptable for a gentleman. For a lady, perhaps a colonic coo?

its better than my sons (15 ) phrase that they all use at school: ripping ass… I’d much prefer a fart..

Of course it’s not a swear word. Although when I was child, I used to get told off for saying it and was told to call it a “trump” or “bottom burp” instead😆

We weren't allowed to use the word fart in the 70s. We had to say somebody had peeped.

As PPs have said stupid words like windy puff/pop, bottie burps and trump are far worse.

How do I decide if my company is polite??

We used to say this at primary school. And I remember at least one child shortening it and saying "someone's done a woff". Has anyone else ever heard the term "woff"?

I'd say that fart is a crude word but not a swear word. I'm amazed that it never occurred to some posters that crap is a swear word. Of course it is, it's just one of the milder ones!

The one I can't stand is "air biscuit". It's extremely inapt and is unfair to biscuits.

I've heard that story before and always wondered if the Queen was grinning when she said it. Or at least had a twinkle in her eye.

Not a swear word and definitely becoming more mainstream. I didn't know it was a word till I was about 7, and it was thought of as very rude and vulgar (1960s). From being little I called it a pardon-me! When I got older everyone just said trump.

@Wac90 but crap is just from a plumber guy/developer of some ‘water closet’ improvements whose name was Thomas Crapper …

My mum used to ask who’d pooted 😁

e howling here - we didn't 'have' to say this but it was definitely a term in our house that I remember fondly 🤣

Of course it isn't a swear word. It's a bodily function.
What else are we meant to call it when we want to use the noun form? You can say pass wind in the verb but come on, why say two words when you can say one?

I definitely don’t consider fart a swear word or a crude thing to say. It’s just a normal word that’s the name of a normal bodily function. Hilarious that people tie themselves in knots trying to avoid saying ‘fart’. Using cute words like botty pop or fluff just sound ridiculous. If fart is good enough for the NHS it’s good enough for me.

Call the cat a smelly little cunt and see what your Mum says.

When I was about 8 I overheard the phrase “rumpy pumpy” from my 23 year old next door neighbour who said “last night I did the rumpy pumpy” or something similar and cringeworthy.

I assumed a rump was your bum and as we referred to farting as pumping in our house that it was a term for farting and found it hilarious.

On Christmas Day in front of all my family I heard my uncle Steve do a discreet fart and announced “whoops I heard uncle Steve has done rumpy pumpy” 🤣.

Everyone turned and stared whilst uncle Steve vehemently denied it (I still find this the funniest bit of the story the fact he took my naive accusation seriously 😆) and asked what I was talking about.

Once Uncle Steve had cleared his name my family (especially my parents) found it very amusing but we used farting as a term for wind after that! 💩 🌬️ 😳

Just remembered when I was in Junior school in the early 80s, there was “guff”, so “have you guffed?” (Weird one that).

The other was “dropped your guts”. Lovely!!

Oh my god have never heard these. The only alternate I knew as a kid was "fluff" and I rarely heard that one.

Your mum needs to look up the meaning of 'swear'.