Too young to say suppository

When I was a child about 9 years old I suffered with constipation and being in the 1960s the default remedy was a glycerin suppository. My mother would explain and show me and when told she was going to push it up my bottom I protested. But this was of no use as I was then made to lay down on my bed with my underwear down behind my knees and my mother lifting my legs up and back to reveal her target. I wrigged and was red in the face with anger, but once that vaselined suppository was in my anus it was then gently pushed high up me. My mother told me it needs to melt, so for some reason I latched on to the term melt. So from there on in, I ask if I was going to get a melt up my bottom. Anyone else have different name for suppository?

I love to call them 'pooper-snoopers' 😄

Dad called them bum torpedos. They were also referred to as bullets because of the shape. We got them for nausea and fever most of the time. Also administered in the pants half down, legs up position. We then had to lie and wait for 20 tp 30 mins and wait for it to melt.

The commonly used term in France is "suppo" (short for "suppositoire").

As a child, I referred to suppositories as “torture”. Not out loud, but in my mind. Out loud, I called them “please-I-don’t-need-a-suppository”.

Back in the 50's and 60's, the term suppository was was quite new to myself and older sister. We always got enemas if an intervention was deemed necessary.

Our younger sisters from baby to toddler, were often given a long thin suppository as our pediatricians changed. Mom, grandma, and aunt used to call or discuss those interventions in front of us and we often observed the different treatments.

While we each were aware when those treatments were given to one of us, we weren't asked or required to demonstrate. On the other hand, if we teased or hazed each other, we knew it was likely we'd be "treated" with the same treatment.

I always believed that an enema and suppository were the same thing when very young. When discussing the order for a suppository from the doctor's office, mom or grandma were left with a choice. I always got the enema in the bath tub!

I felt a deep embarrassment every time I heard the word suppository at home. Since I was the only sibling my parents had, when I heard the word I assumed they were talking about "me and my suppositories"

I tried not to mention that word either. It felt very threatening somehow.

Suppooooository, sticks, or bum candy

I should point out that "suppo" is not specifically a childish term, adults will also say it in informal contexts.

Well in India there is a very different name. In Hindi, "suppository" is called सपोसिटरी (suppositori), which is a transliteration of the English word. It can also be referred to as वर्ति (varti) or गुदवर्ति (gudvarti) (for a rectal suppository).

So now the word varti sometimes get mispronounced to vati and then it becomes bati. So we called it always as bati

Like Glycerin bati, dulcolax bati

The word 'bati' is very similar to the word 'mombati' which means candle sticks. And just imagine the resemblance between a suppository and a candle stick. So seeing a candlestick around or mom is asking about a candle also used to trigger fear in the mind of child, if she remembers that she needs to give a 'bati' to him or her 😳

My brother and I would call suppositories ice. They looked like a small ice chip. Also my mom kept the jar in the refrigerator for we kind of put it as ice. I knew my brother was getting ice in his butt when I heard him screaming in his bedroom and after my brothers turn it was my turn to get ice stuck up my butt. I also screamed and yelled . After a few minutes both my brother and I would still be sniffling and had tears rolling down our faces . For me ice never made me go much if at all. For me it just caused an uncomfortable stinging sensation in my butt. My brother usually went and my parents gave him all the praise . I on the other hand usually needed a bit more to get me to go….

One time when my mom was changing my baby brother’s diaper I saw her slip what I thought was an icicle into his butt. I asked her why she put ice in his butt. She laughed and said it was a suppository to help him poop. She showed me a blue jar which she then put in the refrigerator.

I didn’t question her at the time, but I learned later that we got suppositories while we were in diapers but got enemas with the red bulb once we were potty trained. I don’t remember getting a suppository during that time. As an adult, I started using suppositories occasionally more out of curiosity and experimenting than for need. I have always much preferred an enema to a suppository or an oral laxative.

@up4bottom Your remark about candle sticks is interesting. Sometimes French adults, especially parents, call the suppositories the little "torpedoes" (torpilles).

In the old days, they would use soap sticks which they nicknamed "soap pins" (quilles de savon), as in a bowling pin. I'm however unsure if these "pins" were inserted in and then pulled out, or moved repeatedly, or were fully pushed inside like a suppository would. I certainly can't ask my parents, this would sound so weird!