Favourite or "Pet" name for an Enema?

I allways remember the tearm "butt cleaner" but "a good hosing" and "the big 'E'" were used too.

A "Big E"

I don't remember my mother ever using the word "enema". It was "a little water", as in "Do you need a little water to help you go?" I quickly learned the correct answer was something like, "OK, a little". Because the alternative was a dose of Castoria. It only took one or two of them to learn the enema was the way to go. Especially as I got older and began to enjoy them. At some point I learned the real name for it and started reading up in the home first aid book and medical books in the school library.

On my husband and kids, I used the word "enema" and my husband never took to them. Maybe too clinical? Maybe "a little water" is the secret? It sounds much more pleasant.

We (me and my wife) use term like "green device" because our first "devices" were green. Even though we use "devices" of different colours now, we use the same terminology.

My Italian mother in law called it a Physic. Everybody lined up on Friday night for Dad to give them a Physic.

There are lots of alternative words. Clyster is an old English word, sometimes spelt as clister. Then the Teutonic use of K instead of C, as in Klistier, Klyster, or in French clystère. They tend to use lavement nowadays. Then there is wash-out, equating to the German Einlauf meaning a run-in. My elders spoke of an irrigation, afficionados of colonics, techically-minded of hydrotherapy, and I once came across a curious English euphemism, a "tummy-rumble". I always think of this when I see a street sign warning of rumble-strips as "sleeping policemen" or speed-bumps are sometimes known in the UK. Another association is "Aunt Emma".

My mother would call it a " spitza ".. You are going to get a spitza today !! My sister and I got them with regularity until I was about 11 or 12. usually two enemas in a session. I had a girlfriend who for years gave me weekly enemas, usually three bags while I was on my knees. She would say to me , " I am fixing your water". Now my current wife just tells me that it is time for an enema. I get 2-3 bags, usuallyu every two weeks.

I'm a good deal older than most of you are in that I'm almost 90. When I was a youngster, back in the '30s,my mother used a small infant rectal syringe on me. She would just say," Come into the bedroom with me, I .want to give you an injection."

When I was a young adult living away from home and came to visit my parents occasionally, I always wanted an enema and would tell mother that I was badly constipated, hoping that she'd give me an enema. She would say," oh, would you like me to give you an enema?" Of course I'd say yes, and so she tell me to go upstairs to her bedroom while she got it ready. A few minutes later, she'd come in carrying the bright red rubber hot water bottle with the red hose in the black nozzle in place, tell me to take off my pants and get up on the rubber sheet on the bed – which she put there as I was taking off my pants – get me up on my knees, put Vaseline on my bum hole, and give me a lovely enema for which I would think her profusely.

Very warm and loving memories. But afterwords through the years, she and I continued to call an enema given with a rectal syringe an 'injection', and with her fountain syringe to be an enema.

Sadly- it was not an event of any memory involving mom... But, I knew other folks who called it a tummy wash.

Arguably to me it's less the "name" and more of the memories around hearing it.

Perhaps the most memorable phrasing heard in my past: A lady friend describing her mom giving her weekly enemas in a curious position. She actually assumed the position somewhere between laying or leaning across the kitchen table, belly down at the waist/feet on the floor hands grasping the far side of the table. And thence one indelible memory was made for me. M said she spent maybe half an hour or so in that position as her mom made her take and hold her enemas. Often hot and very soapy. M got a dreamy faraway look in her eyes and said....

" This is what mom called the position for a Learning Experience"

I was entranced. We'd giggled and compared other notes on our similar feelings but sadly we were never suited to any romance. But yeah- I admit to replicating her demonstrated position and occasionally hear her voice as I'm panting past my cramps form any enema...

Many years ago I read a story. When she was a little girl her mother said she was starting her on a weekly tummy wash. The author went into detail about her tummy washes and at the end of the story she stated that she now gives her daughter weekly tummy washes but she does it lovingly, not as a duty.

I read of a British girl who used to be given a "Tummy Rumble" by her aunt. This was at the end of every visit, to make her "comfortable during the bus journey home". Now I never pass a speed bump on the road marked "Rumble Strip" without thinking of her plight.

Just "Klistier" (the German word for "clyster") or "Klistierchen" ("little clyster") because I like how it sounds. Klistier is also how they called it in the past, and I love old-fashioned stuff. Enema is a nice word, too. I like the sound of it. Just the German translation doesn't sound that great. I don't use an enema anyway, but a clyster syringe. If I had to give it a fantasy name, I'd probably call it something like my "Personal Pleasure Device".

In the "olden days" old people used to refer to an enema as a "leveler". which is very true, a good enema does level one out, calm the nerves.

"that girl needs a leveler"!

It was always referred to as an "ENEMA". Depending on the tone of voice it could cause fear in me.

Janet S

The nurse girlfriend I used to see for regular enema sessions often referred to them as "anal washouts".

I like your fantasy name Gewitterhexe, "Personal Pleasure Device". 😉

Mine is "a fantasy"...... because this is what I told my wife-to-be at the time what my fantasy was. She was fine with it back then, but gave up on any interest all too soon after we married. She still knows what it means, but it's of no use at this stage of the game.

There were several terms my mom used for an enema, depending on the circumstances. If it was a punishment enema for misbehavior, it was called an "attitude adjustment".

My Mom would say:

"I'll just have to get the water bag out"

Or she would tell my Dad to "start running the water" to threaten my brother and me with an enema.

When I was little my mom used a bulb syringe and she would refer to an enema as a little "squish".

My wife likes to refer to things as a big soapy. then the rinse will come latter; of course.

The "Big E" by my GF as they always are big and plentiful. Do I mind? Not at all.

When I was a kid a enema was called a good cleaning out . If I or my sister needed a suppository it was called a trick ,if that didn't work it was enema time.

In Swedish the word for enema is "lavemang". That word is mostly used in hospitals or in bad humor shows. I mostly just say I'm going to do my routine or sometimes I use the english word enema.

At home as a kid they were just referred to as enemas , but my husband and I refer to them as "Tupperware". To be a more effective food saver it was recommended to burp the Tupperware or push down on the lid while lifting a corner to let the extra air out. So for an enema to be more comfortable the air should be released, thus burping the bag.

Rinsing out the shit locker.

I'm sure I've offered this elsewhere - anyway my wife and I just use the common Thai phrase - "soo-an tawng" washout tummy...

Sometimes I refer to the event as "spa time"...

A "filling"

My earliest recollection was my mother saying I needed a "tummy wash". That was probably before i was 5 or 6 years old . After that age, sometimes she would say I needed a "clean out" or "help " with my problem. Then as i got older, it was , " I need to give you an enema' or just "you need an enema". But no matter what it was called , or how much I protested, the END result was always the same. LOL