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

I don’t like any words which sound twee to me So that rules out tummy??‍♀️ I don’t dislike belly so much but never use it; it’s all stomach or abdomen etc even to little ones as I like to use regular language with children Others may disagree but it’s an individual choice

Agree with you, Phoenix; never use it, or bum; prefer tummy, stomach and bottom.
And for some reason I dislike pee, but happily say wee.

I think there are just individual and family words that we tend to feel comfortable with. To me 'bottom' sounds so much ruder than 'bum'. My aunt used 'sit-upon' - ridiculous!

Joaquin Phoenix isn't keen on the word Bottom.

That's his real surname

Joaquin Bottom

As children we weren’t allowed to use the words belly or bum. I’ve grown used the term bum but belly I’ve never much liked. No logic to that at all! Tummy allegedly derives from the word stomach.

The American use of the word ‘fanny‘ for your bottom* always throws me, even after nearly two decades of visiting that continent!

*When I was at primary school even the word bottom was forbidden. It was your ‘sit-upon’.

Thong! it's what it conjures up rather than the actual word, lacking in an adequate gusset I imagine!, displaying far too much belly and bottom to use two horrible body part names . Suffice to say an insubstantial and what looks to be an incredibly uncomfortable under garment.

I was living in New Jersey and got asked if I had fanny bag to take to the beach SueDonim

Always makes me chuckle

Another word that horrifies me is n**ple

I can't even type it

Belly sounds common well that says it all I have a common belly and a common bum but if I m angry it might be a fat arse tummy is baby talk stomach is the bit inside isn’t it ?
I can’t believe there is so much class around words for the anatomy I must walk in such common circles
There’s only one word that make me cringe and it’s not panties belly or bum it’s the c word which I cannot bear everything else seems fine to me but them I m obviously common as muck or should I say dirty soil

I'm worrying about your 'moist panties ' now MissAdventure

I am from Northumberland, my mother is from Yorkshire and we are a tummy button family!

It's not really about words being defined as common imo, it's the nauseating subliminal message "panties" gives out when it isn't applicable to a child's garment, so glad it's not generally used here, but that's America for you, there is such a coyness about bodily functions over there, hence "restroom" we all know what they are used for and it ain't a rest! Why can't they just say it "lavatory" toilet" Bodily functions all part of the human condition what's to be coy about.

There are just some words that sound perfectly fine when they are used by little children, tummy etc. We as children were always falling about laughing at the word "bottom" and again with my own and later on grandchildren nothing seems to produce mirth for the very young such as that word. Tummy is really sweet coming out of the mouths of children but somehow sounds really infantile when used by adults a bit like grown people who call their parents mummy and daddy.

A thong in Australia is a flip-flop.

Oppsminty we once had dinner with a very well-to-do American couple. Dh and I nearly burst with trying not to laugh when our hostess suggested we moved to more comfortable seating, because she was suffering from ‘fanny fatigue’. ???

Tummy button

I really hate that phrase “fanny pack” the Americans use for a bum bag, it makes me shudder - although bum bag is not much better is it! A fanny is your front bottom where I come from (although that is not a polite term!). I also hate “panties” yuk, pants is ok!

There is the person who is a pain and gets called a belly ache. Stomach ache doesn’t work for that.

Pain in the ass is what we call them.
Better or worse?

Oh dear, I was an infantile 54 year old, still called my parents
Mammy and Daddy

I'm called Mammio, Anniebach!
I haven't worked out if it's Welsh or Italian.

Fanny pack is horrible, isn't it, HootyMcO although I do use the term bum bag

Personally I think Belly is more correct that Tummy. but I remember my mother using tummy rather than belly. ''Dear have you to got a tummy ache''? Though tummy is a more child-like speak than belly when speaking to a child. .

Etymology:

From Middle English bely, beli, bali, below, belew, balyw, from Old English belg, bælg, bæliġ (“bag, pouch, bulge”), from Proto-Germanic *balgiz (“skin, hide, bellows, bag”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell, blow up”). Cognate with Dutch balg, German Balg.

Noun:

belly (plural bellies)

The abdomen, especially a fat one.
The stomach.
The womb.
The lower fuselage of an airplane.
The part of anything which resembles the human belly in protuberance or in cavity; the innermost part.
The belly of a flask, muscle, violin, sail, or ship
The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back.

The etymology of Tummy - Imitating a child's attempt to say stomach, via archaic colloquialism i.e. stummy.

Now that I think of this, yes, belly is a horrible word.?
Not sure I have ever used the term, but doubt it.
The Lemongroves are a tummy button family too.?

I too don`t like belly , or gut,tummy is a pleasant word.

Callistemon. Mam is definitely South Wales, mio? not the foggiest

I really dislike belly, and would only use it for pork or dancing.
With no daughters, our sons had penises ( much to my mother in law’s disgust!). When I was a child there wasn’t a name for the vulva, simply because I don’t ever recall talking about it!
I’ve never heard my granddaughters talk about it either, but my grandsons, being a bit ruder, joke about willies or lads!

Doctors never say belly

If they're examining they tend to use the word tummy

In fact I was in A&E last year and I vividly recall the lovely consultant telling me my tummy was nice and soft

She probably meant a little bit pudgy but didn't like to be rude