To think " belly" is a horrid, ugly word!

Sure would

Sorry Phoenix but tummy button is just too twee for words!

For ADULTS who think belly button is too 'earthy' just say navel or umbilicus!

Tummies are for children.

nanaK54 totally with you on that, I knew someone who would say she was going to change her dd's "bum" and I always had to stifle the urge to either say "I think you mean nappy" or to ask "what in to?"

Don't have a problem with belly or tummy for that matter. Not heard 'fairy' used in that context, ours tend to use the term 'front bottom' which seems inoffensive and to the point.

My late mum thought belly was a very rude word, along with any body part below the neck . We were never taught (or allowed to say) the name of a body part or even bodily function . Women were never “pregnant” they were having a baby and periods were “monthly’s” . There wasn’t a name for men’s bits and women’s bits were simply “down there...front or back”

Belly belly belly belly belly!

Lovely word.

Belly dancing. Belly pork. Belly laugh. Beer belly. Belly buster. Belly ache. Delhi belly. Belly fat. Going belly up. Fire in my belly. Belly flop.

It's not that I think it's inappropriate or rude.

There are other words I dislike too. Button is one.
I cringed as I typed it, my teeth are on edge now.

Yes phoenix the b word rhymes with jelly, have never used the word so not going to type it

I don't mind it.
Tummy does seem rather twee.

I agree with you Furret can’t see a problem with the word “belly” at all.

I would tickle my baby granddaughters tummy . It’s a baby word . When she lifts her little dress or tee shirt up I always say “I can see your tummy tumkins”

Ah.. a tummy tumkins.
How cute!

Tum for the benefit of the older ones, tummy for the little ones.
Bot, again for the older ones and bottom for the little ones.

That’s how my stepmother ended up pregnant by a Canadian soldier (who turned out to be married). She knew it was wrong because it involved bottoms but had no idea that it would lead to pregnancy. Her sister gave birth thinking the baby would come out of her navel - she had twins!

Our son was a toddler when OH was getting him ready for bed. His dummy was called his ding (as in give me that thing) and he called hi willy his dink. He was a bit sniffly so I suggested putting some Vick on the back of his dummy. No prizes for guessing where he put it!

Can’t stand the ‘b’ word......wasn’t ever used when I was growing up and I’ve never used it. It’s tummy, tum, stomach, insides (if talking about discomfort) even innards, but never b....! I’m currently cringing at a tv ad which is using the word. Think it’s the one for Buscopan

Perhaps it's a regional thing.

I think it is regional too Callistemon and a stupid thing to argue about. As for the other bits it's personal to each family and no one should be mocking what terms other people use. As long as children learn correct terminology by the time they are school age there is nothing to worry about (unless abuse is suspected).

I don’t mind tummy, or belly, or willy (with six grandsons I hear that one a lot more than I need to ).

My yogalates dvds are fronted by a very chirpy Australian, who always talks about bally breathing and blowing out your bally. Maybe that’s a bit more acceptable?

Well, stomach is inaccurate when used in place of belly/tummy. The stomach is an organ, not a generalised area of the body as it’s sometimes misused.

All together now....

Ma's out Pa's out let's talk rude Pee, po, belly, bum, drawers.

Not considered a PC duo now days but Flanders and Swann still make me laugh.

I use the words tummy and bottom mostly. I have been known to tell DH to shift his arse on occasions.

Words like that don't bother me really. Grarss, barth and parth bother me more especially when the person saying those words correct my pronunciation.

Isn’t it weird.

A word itself says what it says, and nothing else. It is the connotations we lay onto it from other cultural aspects of our lives, that make us react as we do.

I hate the word kids for children. Kids are young goats as far as I am concerned. I love kids, so it isn’t that. I suspect it is snobbery initially but cannot remember.

gilly never heard of foo foo?? My mother used fanny to describe her rude bits.

Hate hate hate the word. Bum is another. Never used it with my children and I squirm if I hear the grandchildren use them .

Reading ‘The Mirror and the Light’ by Hilary Mantel at present and she has Thomas Cromwell describing the more portly (since a leg accident after a severe fall from his horse curtailing exercise) as sway-bellied. Very descriptive!

‘more portly Henry VIII’

I'm not too keen on it, I don't like adults using the word tummy though either, fine when children say it, it's a word I associate with the very young somehow sounds ridiculously childish when adults utter it.