A Fart by any other name

My five year old son loves to tell everyone when he farts he thinks it is so cute which there is nothing wrong with it. I have always heard"better out then in" and "pim a rose on that". We all should be teaching our children it is ok to let a fart for holding one in could cause damage to anyone's insides even reverse and cause it to make you feel aweful. I know I get gas from many different foods and there is ways to cut the gas down on those foods. Like a tablespoon of peanutbutter in chili to cut the acid down causing less gas from eating it. We also call it farts, stinky, booboo but after all fart is the best word I do believe.

if it is silent, then it is a "whistle". if it is loud, then it is a "bomb". but whether it is a whistle or a bomb, we call it "utot" in our dialect. that would be said as "uhh" + "taught"

It is a forbidden word in my family. Well, not really. My brother likes doing it a lot and my mother or grandmother would just be like "What are you doing?!" The word fart is never mentioned. Maybe they think it's not ladylike to speak of it? I don't really care but I would want to say away from my brother's farts

hi sandra wow kids are so funny. lets see my husband always'had'a song he used to sing when we had had beans and were really gassy," beans, beans,the musical fruit,when you eat them you go toot toot." So we'called farts toots after the musical fruit you know. sometimes we called it poot poot,so toot and poot were our names for a fart. I would like to know after all these years,82 to be exact,how does one'really hold in gas, I mean after awhile no matter how embarrassing it may be, I have always had to let go no matter how hard i tried not to. maybe I can learn something.he he he

fart and my kids aren't shy about saying it!

sorry just blew one right now... who cares am all alone in my lovely apartemnt so I'm allowed to do that... Well usually in my family we call it "deadly tsunami" but my grandma always preferred saying "you've blown the fuse again!" But down in the streets I grew up we call it "dynamite" (I'm only translating it all in English as it sounds so vulgar in Portuguese and Swahili!) It's amazing how kids today are learning nasty vocabulary so young..

Does the words "oh my god" and rolled eyes count as a name? Cause that is usually what is said.. Or I think you need oiled your screeching to loud..but I guess we just call them farts or stinkers...mostly

It may sound vulgar now but it wasn't back in 1755 or earlier. The word fart was in pre-modern times not considered especially vulgar and could often be encountered in literary works. Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language, published in 1755, included the word. We have since made a number of words that was used back then as not appropriate to be used today. My grandchildren call it a toot or backend burp. I wonder just how many synonyms have evolved for this word???

Too funny!! my grand daughter is two and uses different words, I think because she's around so many different people and they all try to persuade her to use the same "clean vocabulary" She's used farted, stinkered. My kids have used "Sharted" (when you thought you had to fart but $h&t yourself instead) toot or tooted. My niece made me laugh the other day when she used the word "fluffed" to her little one.

We call it "fart too. However, I am reminded of a story. A friend of mine said he word "fart" when he was about 6 in front of his father. A rather upright Methodist Minister. His father told him that it wasn't a polite word to use at all. If he had to make a reference to it he should call it a "whisper". My friend was a good boy and dutifully changed the word to "whisper". One day his grandmother was staying. She asked him what he wanted for Christmas "Come and whisper in Garndma's ear" she said!!!

Personally a fart is a fart unless it's a shart and that's just a messy matter. I remember growing up my parents were very much old school and any unfortunate noises were usually ignored, although the term "You let rip" was occassionaly mentioned or the rather more tame "parped".

Hi Sandra! look at www.heptune.com/farts.html to answer all of your gaseous questions! Husbands favorite scent scapegoats are "mouse on a motor cycle!" or "barking spiders". Me? I poof, which is better than a shart any day. You know what a shart is, right? it's when you try to fart and semi solid materials come out...also known as a "foop". "Prairie doggin" is no picnic either. happy horn tooting!

Hi, a really funny discussion. I am from INDIA and we all have our own different languages which we use to call this "BIG WORK". We usually call it a "PAAD" which is the actual translation in Hindi for FART, other than this we use "Let the air out" or something similar in our own language. Sorry, but I couldn't add any English words for FART! You can call it a "reverse burp" lol

Hello sandra1952 Too funny , well I was bought with the old fashion passed gas, and it stuck with me, I like the names you have for it, will try to remember this in the future I can me now saying to someone you bottom burped lmaoo, they will say what you called me lmaooo Thanks for making me laugh.

if it is silent, then it is a "whistle". if it is loud, then it is a "bomb". but whether it is a whistle or a bomb, we call it "utot" in our dialect. that would be said as "uhh" + "taught"

LOL that is very funny.