Windy Words

[Bugsy]

Sorry to lower the tone here but what do people think about names for passing wind that toddlers use. I have no problem with my son saying "Farts" but my husband thinks that this is unacceptable. I refuse to call them "windypops", "puffs", "whizzbombs" or any other absurd euphemism. So, does anyone have any good suggestions?

We used 'bottom burps' for years but now she is eleven we use the word 'fart'. As we have a baby we shall probably soon all be reverting to 'bottom burp'!

We call them trumps!

we fart in our house too. we have friends who "toot" which i think is too twee for words but might suit some people!!!

'Bottom burps' for us too, though our 7 year old is beginning to use the word 'fart' in selected company. This is OK with us as long as it's said quietly, not shouted. It's a school thing, isn't it?

When he was younger, any major accidents down below were referred to as 'a cough in your pants' to spare his feelings.

My mum uses blowing off, but I expect when my son is older it will be that, bottom burps or farts

We've had blowing off and popping off. Mostly, we just go 'oh, pardon you!' (or me, depending on who's done it!) after the event.

Thanks for lowering the tone - but when some of the other boards can be quite deep you need a bit of light relief!

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Bloss, I like "smellie" but think that my husband might like that even less than fart. Our little boy is only 20 months but is very chatty and wants a word for everything at the moment. He already says the word "fart" and you can see him deliberatly pushing to try and get more out just for the laugh factor. He giggles helplessly at his own farting prowess to the point of nearly drowning in the bath because he has gone all floppy from laughing so much (or could it be he is so deflated!!).
I'm not entirely sure where this toilet humour has come from as my husband and I are both fairly coy about these things.
I think my husband is concerned that such a young child saying the word "fart" could offend people. My own view is that the people who love him won't mind and who cares what other people think but I'm still open to consider a reasonable alternative just to keep the peace.

I'm a terrible sucker for toilet humour and laugh hysterically when my son farts. Just can't help it and don't know what I'll do about it when he gets older!.

bugsy, it's an unfortunate fact of life with children that farting IS funny - your dh is just going to have to learn to live with it!

love the image of the deflated child in the bath. hope you have a pump handy when necessary!

We do 'pops'. Although when I was a kid we called them pumps....and laughed hysterically when 'pump action' canisters were introduced for the likes of toothpaste....

We pump in our house, and being pregnant my 'pump power' is increasing vastly (is this just me?).

My son not only likes pumping he feels it is important to find the culprit and shout out "XXXX has pumped, it was XXXX pumping"

(for XXXX read mummy)

We had friends who deliberately used non-baby words for everything. Their toddler even said 'Mummy, I want to have a crap' when he needed the loo. Apparently it went down like a lead balloon with the grandparents.... I am pretty sure they used fart as well. It is a bit disconcerting to hear a little person come out with 'crap' but somehow 'fart' is ok. Goodness knows why.

Croppy - When myself my sister and brother were small we used to tickle my sister which made her blow off (as my mum puts it) which in turn made her and us laugh which made her do it even more. It still hasnt changed, sometimes I think she should have been a bloke, great sister and aunt though.

Flumps in our house, except it caused great consternation when a little girl bought a 10p mix up with Bassetts "Flumps" in, when Jack and I were at the shops!

We have a "smellie" household. I think farting is just one of those things that kids find very funny!

Erm - hope this is not lowering the tone even more or too personal, but I have always had a dilemma in my mind over what to call baby boys and girls 'bits'. To me, the proper biological words just don't sound right when referred to babies. I have a 15 mo boy and reluctantly use the 'w' word, but if I had a girl I wouldn't have a clue?

OK....get this.....my dad was never much for "baby words" and insisted we name everything properly. I don't think he could find a dictionary term for a fart when we were young so if someone farted he said they had crepitated!! The dictionary definition of crepitate is to make a cracking sound. I guess this was as close as he could get!! As you may be alble to tell, my dad is a scientist!

When we were older it reverted back to fart but the word crepitate has us all in stitches on the very rare occasion we hear it somewhere!

jodee, "front bottom" kind of labels it for a little one; i would be interested to know if ANYBODY out there calls it a vulva! (though volvo might be an interesting variant and lead to some humorous conversations...) you could say fanny, but anybody called frances might take it amiss, and in any case in the US your fanny is your backside (or buns) (2 nations divided...etc.)

anyway what do adults call theirs? somehow mens' bits - because they're on the outside? - seem to get involved in more conversations than womens' bits!

on the other hand, one US usage i wish we could adopt is "BM" (bowel movement) rather than poo or any of the ruder words - used by adults and children alike, i found, perfectly polite and understood by everybody. (well, everybody who understands english.)

could mumsnet start a campaign???

(they'd have to change the name of those biscuits though.)

No it's OK Janh, the biscuits are called BN!!

well, i wasn't sure, but the ad SOUNDS like BM!!!

We have pumps in our household, but its usually 'pumpy-bum' or 'pumped' so no-one made the connection with those black things they wear at school.
We use 'tinkle' for our girls bits, which we thought was quite safe, until we read 'the giraffe and the pelly and me' by Rhoald Dhal (sp). In case you havent read it, the giraffe will only eat 'the pink and purple flowers from the tinkle tinkle tree' which has both of our daughters in absolute stitches. We've also got it on tape for in the car, and it always goes quiet just before that be so they can both hear it!
Toilet humour rules!