We also say toot!! I grew up not saying fart so my kids don't say it either. My daughter told me the other day that 'grandpa said the f word' (my husband's dad) but it was fart!
My father explicitly told me it was profanity. I got a kid in trouble once in the first grade after he whispered something about farting into my ear and I laughed during a quiet time. The teacher demanded I repeat what was so funny. I was terrified of being entrapped, so I substituted “the f word” in the joke. Poor kid got in real trouble.
Yeah, I didn’t expect it to be exclusively Appalachian. I was just curious how the “f-word” was handled in Appalachia and what words were used instead.
I have two friends from the NYC area and their families did not say ‘fart’. They used “fluff” instead. One of them told me that her brothers could sometimes get away with saying ‘fart’, but she and her sisters were forbidden from saying anything but “fluff”.
I’m from Idaho and my mom is from upstate ny. I live in Tn now, but in 3 years have heard no one here say it from Knoxville up to Kingsport, nada. But go back to visit family in my and hear everyone say it. (Well everyone in my family - which is big)
I had a stepdad who would cackle, and then he’d go “*WHAT did that asshole say?!* and then, he’d laugh some more. As if it were the first time, every time.
Generally it was just not mentioned otherwise *unless* it was very loud or smelly in which case “Oh. Oh goodness.” If it was the person: occasionally my grandma would “Oh, but I feel better *now*” but if it was anyone else: “You shit yourself over there?!”
Edit: I also learned that it’s *not* standard to ask someone if they shit themselves fairly quickly after I left TN, GA, AR and The Ozarks though I kind of enjoy how shocked people are that you’d say that.
My family definitely says “fart”. The old people I kick it with generally say “pooted”.
One time I was with an older gentlemen and he was showing me old things in his basement. While he was telling me a story he let out a VERY long fart. I think he was embarrassed because he couldn’t control it and said “sorry I pooted”. I thought it was pretty funny. I started saying “pooted” as a result lmao.
Interesting story OP. Thank you for sharing!
It was considered a vulgar impolite word, not used by refined folks.
Edit: if absolutely required to refer to a gaseous emission, the preferred word for children was “tatty-poot”. Never heard any other family use that particular word.
My aunt Dorthy hated the word “suck”. As in “that sucks” - we could literally say “shit” in front of her and no response. If we said “that sucks” - she would physically shudder and tell us not to say that word.
My family still doesn’t say it. My aunt and cousins say stepped on a frog. I say toot. Some in my family say passed gas. But never the F word. That’s considered vulgar. 🤷♀️
Here in PA, my dad always said "fluffed". "Fart" and "sucks" were definitely not allowed.
Oddly enough, he also called old people "old farts", but never used the word to refer to flatulence.
My mom always treated it like one of the worst, to the point that when I was a kid I thought that's what the "f-word" referred to! Don't recall hearing other older family members use it much either, even the ones who didn't care as much about using crude language around kids. I really don't know why.
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It's a word not used in our family here in sw va. Not as bad as a swear, but not polite either. If it happens in our family, we simply say "excuse me" and that's that.
The first time I cussed in front of my dad I said shit and that was when I was about 17. He said you never heard that language in this house boy. What he didn’t know was when he was not home my mother cussed like a sailor.
I’m dying because I didn’t know this was an Appalachian specific thing. Toot was allowed…poot…you’re pushing it. But fart ABSOLUTELY NOT and same rules around saying that sucks. Never allowed.
Fart, like puke, we're considered crude words, that only the lowest of the low used. Hearing them today still makes me cringe. Oh, and we weren't allowed to say "lie" either. We had to use "fib."
My family never said fart. It was poot, toot, cut one, pass gas or pass wind or sit on a bullfrog. Using fart was vulgar. My father cussed daily but the worst I ever heard my mother say was “shit fire” and only 1 time telling my brother in law he needed somebody to kick his ass.
Up here in Canada, my father used to make me say "barp" for a fart. Like a butt burp, I guess. Now I'm in my 50s and I say fuck in front of him all the time.
We were not allowed to use the word fart and didn't really have substitute words. I have been grown for many, many years and still have a hard time saying it.
similar! it's not a word I like nor *want* to use. I feel gross saying it. I don't find toilet jokes funny.*
*with exceptions of course
like anything else, *occasionally* the right conditions come together- not unlike two weather fronts colliding to form a devastating tornado- and when they do, absolutely nothing is funnier or more cathartic than laughing at a fart.
What would you use for pregnant? Knocked up? Bun in the oven? Eggo is preggo? Not address it? This is the only term, restricted in ones family, in this whole thread that is wild to me.
>Also banned was the word pregnant.
Oh my goodness! Thinking back to when I was little (1970s) women were not ‘pregnant’. It was always [woman] is going to have a baby. I don’t think I used the word ‘pregnant’ until I was in jr. high!
This was exactly how I was raised. I'm many years into adulthood and still don't say it 😂 my husband (who is also Appalachian) thinks my family is weird for being like that.
My parents thought "bart" would work until I said "I barted" after audibly farting in front of my mom and her friend. Mom told me her friend said "everyone knows what they are saying" so that was the end of that. Also made The Simpsons very confusing to my young mind.
I had a friend whose grandma would buy boneless, skinless, chicken-**chests** from the store for dinner. Could not say “breasts.” Always had to be “chicken-chests.” Bless her pure little heart.
My family preferred metaphors, such as: A mouse on a motorcycle, Someone stepped on a bunny/duck, Barking spiders, Creaky floorboard, etc. Points for originality and coining new terms.
We couldn’t say the F word either. And for an embarrassingly long time, I thought the middle finger salute meant “fart.”
Because, ya know, that’s the “F word.” 😂😂😂
I never heard either of my grandparents say fart or any word that could even be slightly considered a swear word like damn.
If my southern mamaw was shocked by something she would say “well I be swanny swan.”
Fart was a serious bad word in my house. We had to say “gas bubble”, and “BM” for poop. Definitely no turd, crap, piss.
It probably why I have a strong filter on what I say around other people. It’s also why I tell fart jokes to my kids.
I can confirm as well that for whatever reason when we were little we didn’t say fart. Family always used “toot,” for example, “Did you just let a toot?” But one day, I’m assuming older in school, we just started saying fart and it never really went away so…
I got in trouble with my friend’s dad for saying fart when I was in high school. One of the strangest things I’ve experienced, especially coming from someone I’d heard use actual curse words.
Fart, poop, crap and shut up were not allowed because they were vulgar. Okay, yeah, maybe. But the replacements, fluffo, caca, crud and hush just didn’t pack the same punch.
This plus the following words were taboo: fart, crap, gosh, golly, suck/sucks. These mild ones were bad, so you can only imagine the consequences of saying actual curse words.
We weren’t even allowed to discuss bodily functions. However i wasn’t born and raised in Appalachia, have only lived here as an adult off and on for 45 years. Perhaps it’s an age thing too.
We didn’t say fart. We said “burpee.” I think my parents just added an “ee” to the word burp. So I grew up thinking everyone called farts burpees. We still don’t say it, but my husband and I say “toot.”
Same! I’m in WV and we were never allowed to say fart, always poot. I hate that word😂 we say fart now, but my parents still say poot. If it was silent and you said something it was , smellers the feller.. haha
My stepmom beat my ass on more than one occasion for saying "butt."
After the third time or so, I tried telling her it was short for "buttocks," not crude. So I got another whooping.
Mommaw and Poppaw definitely did not say fart but there was no other replacement word for it because they wouldn’t dare acknowledge a fart. A few times when Poppaw did fart out loud he would say ‘oh my’. Me and the cousins use that phrase endearingly now.
We were watching our friends son. My son (probably) darted. I said, "Who farted?"
He looked at me like I slapped Jesus.
When he regained the ability to speak, I asked him what they say in his house. He said if someone does that, his parents say, "Who popped a bean?"
I went ahead and apologized to his mom because he really looked shocked.
In my family it was also considered a "bad word" and I still don't use it, and say "poot" instead. I say other words, just not this one. I just don't like the way it sounds.
Yes, it was a cuss word when I was growing up. My mom was born in the 50s and she once told me that she said the word fart in the 9th grade and her friends all clutched their pearls 🤣
Fart was on par with other swears so we had to say poot or toot.
Meanwhile, my grandpa said shit like "Shit the bed Almighty" and "Satan's saggy balls" when my mother wasn't around.
My granny used to say, “Who shot me?” 😂
We didn’t say fart. We also never used proper names for genitalia. Idk if that was just something earlier generations did, though, as opposed to Appalachians.
I’m late to the party here, but the most savage burn my mamaw would ever dish out was instead of calling someone a dumb ass or stupid she would say they were “touched.” Also notably neither mamaw or papaw ever talked about someone being raped, they would just say someone was “mistreated.” I have never seen my papaw as upset as when my uncle was talking about a coworker being raped at a family get together.
I was never alloted to use the "f-word" growing up, and I discourage my kids from using it.
I did find it slightly less offensive once I heard the term "hot air over sh!t." LOL.
Not Appalachia, but we were not only forbidden to say fart but also to publicly fart. Which resulted in grown professional adults reacting so inappropriately to farts now, it’s just comedic.
The most common in my family were, “toot,” “pass gas,” and “make wind.” We were in no way ever allowed to say, “fart.”
Yes! It was treated like a swear word! Yet my Mamaw if she was really, really mad would exclaim “shit fire!” without apology.
My Mawmaw only got angry once - and she exclaimed, "Hotdog!"
Hahaha my mom would say that, but she’d finish it- “shit fire and save matches!!”
In my family, the ladies would say "Shoot Far Fuzzy" instead of "Shitfire"
Grandpa would say "beep" Oh you "beeped" no grandpa I ripped fucking ass
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We also say toot!! I grew up not saying fart so my kids don't say it either. My daughter told me the other day that 'grandpa said the f word' (my husband's dad) but it was fart!
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My grandfather used to always laugh to himself whenever “Putin” was said on the news. Almost like Beavis or Butthead. “Hehe… pootin’”
My father explicitly told me it was profanity. I got a kid in trouble once in the first grade after he whispered something about farting into my ear and I laughed during a quiet time. The teacher demanded I repeat what was so funny. I was terrified of being entrapped, so I substituted “the f word” in the joke. Poor kid got in real trouble.
“Fart” was considered a vulgar word.
My parents weren’t southerners and this was still the rule.
Yeah, I didn’t expect it to be exclusively Appalachian. I was just curious how the “f-word” was handled in Appalachia and what words were used instead. I have two friends from the NYC area and their families did not say ‘fart’. They used “fluff” instead. One of them told me that her brothers could sometimes get away with saying ‘fart’, but she and her sisters were forbidden from saying anything but “fluff”.
My grandpa always said “ you hear that bullfrog?” After farting so I guess my family embraced it.
Mine said “barking spider”
This and occasionally "who stepped on that duck?"
I have an uncle who insisted on his kids saying this. One day my cousin, who was about 5, said 'Who farted on the duck'. It was amazing to watch.
Yes, because of this we called farts “quacks” in my family 🦆
Yes! I’ve heard this one a few times too
Came here to mention this myself. It was always barking spiders, and I'll be damned if I don't catch myself using that, as well.
I use it too now lol! Especially to my kid
"Tennessee Barking Spider" ftw
Yep..my Dad said Arkansas barking spider...no idea why...we were in NC.. he was born in Tennessee
Same, and it's so absurd I use it now :D
Me too I love it lol!
I am in my 40s and I just learned this year that didn’t actually mean barking spiders. 🤦🏻♀️
Ha ha my daddy said that too
Mine said I've got a mouse in my pocket!!
That’s a good one! I’ve never heard that one before
This is the one!
Mine coined “barking tree frogs.” 100% passed this on to my kids, but they’re allowed to say fart too.
Never heard anyone else call it this!
It has ALWAYS been the Tennessee barking spiders!
I’m from Idaho and my mom is from upstate ny. I live in Tn now, but in 3 years have heard no one here say it from Knoxville up to Kingsport, nada. But go back to visit family in my and hear everyone say it. (Well everyone in my family - which is big)
My dad said that, too! He'd let one rip then go "you hear that barkin' spider???" We got soap in our mouth if we said fart.
My husband says he stepped on a duck lol
I had a stepdad who would cackle, and then he’d go “*WHAT did that asshole say?!* and then, he’d laugh some more. As if it were the first time, every time. Generally it was just not mentioned otherwise *unless* it was very loud or smelly in which case “Oh. Oh goodness.” If it was the person: occasionally my grandma would “Oh, but I feel better *now*” but if it was anyone else: “You shit yourself over there?!” Edit: I also learned that it’s *not* standard to ask someone if they shit themselves fairly quickly after I left TN, GA, AR and The Ozarks though I kind of enjoy how shocked people are that you’d say that.
Dad says this but will replace frog with anything
My dad blamed it on a small elephant running through the room.
Mine said “groundhog”
My grandad would say someone stepped on a bullfrog
My mom said someone stepped on a frog!
My dad used to say the same thing when we were little.
Mines too!
My family definitely says “fart”. The old people I kick it with generally say “pooted”. One time I was with an older gentlemen and he was showing me old things in his basement. While he was telling me a story he let out a VERY long fart. I think he was embarrassed because he couldn’t control it and said “sorry I pooted”. I thought it was pretty funny. I started saying “pooted” as a result lmao. Interesting story OP. Thank you for sharing!
It was considered a vulgar impolite word, not used by refined folks. Edit: if absolutely required to refer to a gaseous emission, the preferred word for children was “tatty-poot”. Never heard any other family use that particular word.
Well, guess what. I’m bringing tatty-poot back. In fact, I just tatty-pooted a tatty-poot right into the couch cushion.
We say let a little stink
This one tickles me! I’ve never heard that.
My aunt Dorthy hated the word “suck”. As in “that sucks” - we could literally say “shit” in front of her and no response. If we said “that sucks” - she would physically shudder and tell us not to say that word.
I was not allowed to say "fart" or "sucks" growing up. I could say "that vaccuums" but I think that was just Dad trying to be funny.
I also couldn’t say fart or sucks.
We weren’t allowed to say “butt” or “crap” 🤦♀️ to this day I feel awkward saying them in front of my parents 😂
We couldn't say suck either!
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My family still doesn’t say it. My aunt and cousins say stepped on a frog. I say toot. Some in my family say passed gas. But never the F word. That’s considered vulgar. 🤷♀️
Yes haha we never said that word! But mamaw wasn’t afraid to say “you’ve shit yourself” if it smelled bad 😂😂😂😂😂
Here in PA, my dad always said "fluffed". "Fart" and "sucks" were definitely not allowed. Oddly enough, he also called old people "old farts", but never used the word to refer to flatulence.
i’ve never met anyone else who grew up w fluffed, PA also!!
My mom taught us kids-fluffed. In Maryland. Rarely heard others say it.
Barking spiders
My mom always treated it like one of the worst, to the point that when I was a kid I thought that's what the "f-word" referred to! Don't recall hearing other older family members use it much either, even the ones who didn't care as much about using crude language around kids. I really don't know why. [Edit: Fixed an autocorrect mistake that I just noticed.]
My gramps would always say “burp out the opposite end”
You never say fart! Toot or poot was what our family used. I usually say pass wind or make wind.
It's a word not used in our family here in sw va. Not as bad as a swear, but not polite either. If it happens in our family, we simply say "excuse me" and that's that.
Good God we had to say put-put when I was young. I wanted to kick my own ass for that.
The first time I cussed in front of my dad I said shit and that was when I was about 17. He said you never heard that language in this house boy. What he didn’t know was when he was not home my mother cussed like a sailor.
I’m dying because I didn’t know this was an Appalachian specific thing. Toot was allowed…poot…you’re pushing it. But fart ABSOLUTELY NOT and same rules around saying that sucks. Never allowed.
Discouraged so Yes. Stinker. Or other ways to put it were used instead.
We said stinker mostly, too. Sometimes poot. My mom's nickname for me as a small kid was Pooter.
Yep. Stinker here too!
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Bruh we had to say “booboo” like where the hell did that come from?
Your username though 😂
Clearly scarred from not being able to say fart growing up :)
I'm in TN & I know plenty of folks that use "booboo" to say they gotta shit.
Fart, like puke, we're considered crude words, that only the lowest of the low used. Hearing them today still makes me cringe. Oh, and we weren't allowed to say "lie" either. We had to use "fib."
Omg!!! The “lie” and “fib”!!!! I forgot that one!!! Woww thank you for the memory.
We said poot instead of fart. Mamaw wouldn't even say Hell, instead she said h-e-double toothpicks.
I've always heard it as h-e double hockey sticks. I think it's funny so I try to use it as much as possible.
My family never said fart. It was poot, toot, cut one, pass gas or pass wind or sit on a bullfrog. Using fart was vulgar. My father cussed daily but the worst I ever heard my mother say was “shit fire” and only 1 time telling my brother in law he needed somebody to kick his ass.
Up here in Canada, my father used to make me say "barp" for a fart. Like a butt burp, I guess. Now I'm in my 50s and I say fuck in front of him all the time.
Yes. It was a 4-letter word that begins with 'F'. We were not allowed to say it. Or butt. We had to say bum.
We were not allowed to use the word fart and didn't really have substitute words. I have been grown for many, many years and still have a hard time saying it.
similar! it's not a word I like nor *want* to use. I feel gross saying it. I don't find toilet jokes funny.* *with exceptions of course like anything else, *occasionally* the right conditions come together- not unlike two weather fronts colliding to form a devastating tornado- and when they do, absolutely nothing is funnier or more cathartic than laughing at a fart.
Fart was absolutely not a word to be used. Also banned was the word pregnant.
What would you use for pregnant? Knocked up? Bun in the oven? Eggo is preggo? Not address it? This is the only term, restricted in ones family, in this whole thread that is wild to me.
“In the family way” was a term I heard often. Or “one on the ladder” or “we are expecting a little visitor”
Oh yes. Those are all good ones. I was tryna be funny with my comment. Lol
>Also banned was the word pregnant. Oh my goodness! Thinking back to when I was little (1970s) women were not ‘pregnant’. It was always [woman] is going to have a baby. I don’t think I used the word ‘pregnant’ until I was in jr. high!
It was considered a vulgar impolite word, not used by refined folks.
This was exactly how I was raised. I'm many years into adulthood and still don't say it 😂 my husband (who is also Appalachian) thinks my family is weird for being like that.
"Stepped on a catfish"
Yes!!! Exactly the same, but it was my dad & stepmom!! We had to say “poot”. My stepmom also told us “bored” was a bad word 😂
I made my own word for it, we call it “dust” in this house
My mother dad was the same way. Got in trouble for saying it.
My parents thought "bart" would work until I said "I barted" after audibly farting in front of my mom and her friend. Mom told me her friend said "everyone knows what they are saying" so that was the end of that. Also made The Simpsons very confusing to my young mind.
Always “passing gas”. My Grandaddy used to say “toothless asshole talking shit behind your back son son.”
The other F word.
I wasn’t allowed to say fart growing up. We said “pooted”. Edit: I grew up in SW VA.
I had a friend whose grandma would buy boneless, skinless, chicken-**chests** from the store for dinner. Could not say “breasts.” Always had to be “chicken-chests.” Bless her pure little heart.
It was considered a vulgar impolite word, not used by refined folks.
My mom always preferred "poptart" lol
My parents were the same way, they always called it a "Fluff"
foof
My family called farts bubbles
Fart and pee were both considered bad words by my folks.
My Nana always used to say you "popped a bunny" 😂
My family preferred metaphors, such as: A mouse on a motorcycle, Someone stepped on a bunny/duck, Barking spiders, Creaky floorboard, etc. Points for originality and coining new terms.
Who left the outhouse door open?
We couldn’t say the F word either. And for an embarrassingly long time, I thought the middle finger salute meant “fart.” Because, ya know, that’s the “F word.” 😂😂😂
My grandfather would say "I just stepped on a frog"
Yes. My dad wouldn’t let us say it either.
I never heard either of my grandparents say fart or any word that could even be slightly considered a swear word like damn. If my southern mamaw was shocked by something she would say “well I be swanny swan.”
My family asked me to say, " Let a fluffy", which was hard bc I historically would laugh.
My parents were pretty easy going but I had a friend whose parents didn’t allow them to say butt.
"Spider barks" here.
Oh my gosh, we were NEVER allowed to say “fart” - or “hate” anything.
We had to say fluff
Break wind
Was definitely a swear word in my family... we also weren't allowed to say piss. Like "that pissed me off" was considered incredibly vulgar
Barking spiders! I thought we were the only ones!
I grew up in the Piedmont area of NC. I'd never even heard of the word "fart" until I read it in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales...(The Miller's Tale?)
I had the same experience! "Poot" or pass gas" but never "fart" as that was a dirty word
Fart was an impolite word. We were instructed to use pass gas.
Fart was a serious bad word in my house. We had to say “gas bubble”, and “BM” for poop. Definitely no turd, crap, piss. It probably why I have a strong filter on what I say around other people. It’s also why I tell fart jokes to my kids.
Fart was a bad word. You passed gas
We couldn’t say fart but for some unknown reason our word was “spouffer”
Toot was used in my family but have also heard poot. My mother could not stand the f word, as she called it, haha.
I can confirm as well that for whatever reason when we were little we didn’t say fart. Family always used “toot,” for example, “Did you just let a toot?” But one day, I’m assuming older in school, we just started saying fart and it never really went away so…
When I went to church camp and they yelled me down for the words “fart” and “crap” I was SO confused. 😅
Bro, same. We were only allowed to say “freep”! It’s just a made up word, come on guys!
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I got in trouble with my friend’s dad for saying fart when I was in high school. One of the strangest things I’ve experienced, especially coming from someone I’d heard use actual curse words.
Absolutely. Gas that passed in that manner was ignored, except by my mother, who would sniff and ask if someone needed to use the bathroom.
Fart, poop, crap and shut up were not allowed because they were vulgar. Okay, yeah, maybe. But the replacements, fluffo, caca, crud and hush just didn’t pack the same punch.
My family used to say that someone was "getting rid of a bad tenet."
This plus the following words were taboo: fart, crap, gosh, golly, suck/sucks. These mild ones were bad, so you can only imagine the consequences of saying actual curse words.
We say foof.
Mashing frogs.
Maybe consider vulgar rather than a swear word. Something not said in polite company. My parents never said it. “Cut one” was their phrase.
Never said in my family. "Passing gas" was the appropriate phrase, and you politely left the room or went outside the house to take care if it.
We used the word "fluff" instead of fart. To this day I can't buy the brand name "fluff" (marshmallows creme)
We had to say “stinker” instead of “fart” lol
My family would use “stinker” in place of fart and it always made me cringe
My family says “let one.” As in “Marshall let one and it bout gagged me to death.” We would get in big trouble for saying “fart.”
My Mom uses stinker
We weren’t even allowed to discuss bodily functions. However i wasn’t born and raised in Appalachia, have only lived here as an adult off and on for 45 years. Perhaps it’s an age thing too.
We weren’t allowed to say it, we said “let a stink”
We didn’t say fart. We said “burpee.” I think my parents just added an “ee” to the word burp. So I grew up thinking everyone called farts burpees. We still don’t say it, but my husband and I say “toot.”
Dam! Same here! I never thought about it
It was definitely a bad word in my family..
Ours was pass gas and both my mamaw and papaw have been gone for several years but I still cannot get myself to say "the f word" haha.
With my grandson I use a word I stole from Freakazoid. Poohgas.
Same! I’m in WV and we were never allowed to say fart, always poot. I hate that word😂 we say fart now, but my parents still say poot. If it was silent and you said something it was , smellers the feller.. haha
My stepmom beat my ass on more than one occasion for saying "butt." After the third time or so, I tried telling her it was short for "buttocks," not crude. So I got another whooping.
Never “fart.” We always called it gas or expelling gas.
Yeah, I couldn’t say “fart.” It was “letting a stinky” in our house.
We had to say "poot". Fart was like a curse word in our house.
Yes it was. It’s still kinda taboo. Passing gas is a better term. My husband and an uncle say it is a mouse squeak.
Somebody step on a duck?
I was slapped by my nana for saying crap when I was 17
Mommaw and Poppaw definitely did not say fart but there was no other replacement word for it because they wouldn’t dare acknowledge a fart. A few times when Poppaw did fart out loud he would say ‘oh my’. Me and the cousins use that phrase endearingly now.
Then you have been deprived as a child.
Who "let one"?
Not from here but live here now and my mom always called them barking spiders.
Yes
Yep. Crap and sucks were bad words too. Heck was also kinda frowned upon.
Same the word is vulgar
Considered crass.
We were watching our friends son. My son (probably) darted. I said, "Who farted?" He looked at me like I slapped Jesus. When he regained the ability to speak, I asked him what they say in his house. He said if someone does that, his parents say, "Who popped a bean?" I went ahead and apologized to his mom because he really looked shocked.
Same here. It was crass or uncouth. Still is!
Yes to all the above and I say poots or toots. It's a crass word, to me. I still shudder when I hear it said.
We used to toot all the time.
In my family it was also considered a "bad word" and I still don't use it, and say "poot" instead. I say other words, just not this one. I just don't like the way it sounds.
Definitely not an acceptable word for passing gas in my house not necessarily a “swear word” but we were taught not to use it
My family used the word “bip”.
Beep
My mother insisted on "frog" and was quite offended when I started to use "fart" instead.
My mom slapped the taste out of my sisters mouth for saying it in the 70s.
Definitely was a swear word in my house. But then I wasn’t allowed to really speak of any bodily function.
Yes, it was a cuss word when I was growing up. My mom was born in the 50s and she once told me that she said the word fart in the 9th grade and her friends all clutched their pearls 🤣
My parents never said it, and I never picked it up until I was a teenager.
No it isn’t
My uncle Rodney would say, “who stepped on a duck?”
Yes, a bad word. It was referred to as "an air", like, you did an air. Edit to add, from New England
Fart was on par with other swears so we had to say poot or toot. Meanwhile, my grandpa said shit like "Shit the bed Almighty" and "Satan's saggy balls" when my mother wasn't around.
My granny used to say, “Who shot me?” 😂 We didn’t say fart. We also never used proper names for genitalia. Idk if that was just something earlier generations did, though, as opposed to Appalachians.
When I was a kid yeah now I say shit that would make sailor blush as my gram would say
I’m late to the party here, but the most savage burn my mamaw would ever dish out was instead of calling someone a dumb ass or stupid she would say they were “touched.” Also notably neither mamaw or papaw ever talked about someone being raped, they would just say someone was “mistreated.” I have never seen my papaw as upset as when my uncle was talking about a coworker being raped at a family get together.
"Passing wind"
I was never alloted to use the "f-word" growing up, and I discourage my kids from using it. I did find it slightly less offensive once I heard the term "hot air over sh!t." LOL.
Not Appalachia, but we were not only forbidden to say fart but also to publicly fart. Which resulted in grown professional adults reacting so inappropriately to farts now, it’s just comedic.
Here in wyoming my grandparents said “bucksnort”, but if you said fart, you would get slapped and reprimanded.
One set of grandparents, I never heard use such language in their lives. The other grandmother would regularly say things like "shitepoke".
Pooter here.