How did your parents or doctor refer to your butt? Ie, what was it called?

In our family, when we were young, it was referred to as “Fanny”. Yes, I know Fanny means something completely different in other parts of the world! Guess my parents were old school in terminology! Later, I remember it was referred to as the butt. Or bottom.

Can’t remember for sure what it was called at the doctors. I am thinking Fanny by the old school pediatrician.

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@Spence1819

I was born in 1958 and my parents always referred the buttocks as "fanny" and I didn't start calling it a butt until I was a preteen of 11 years. My peers called it a butt and so that's what I called it.

Funny story about calling it a butt:

My sister is married to a doctor and with his medical background their family used proper medical terms for everything, although, of course, they were familiar with "street" terms. One day, the school bully walked up to their six-year-old daughter and said nastily, "You're a butt." Their tough little daughter, who knows how to stick up for herself living with three older sisters, looked at the boy and said, "You're a vagina." The boy didn't know what to do or say. He just stared at her for a few seconds and then walked away.

That's funny, but I find even more humor as I picture the gears turning in both their heads. My sister's daughter thinks, "This kid just called me a name. He called me body part, a private part, no less. Well, I'll call him a body part, a private part, no less, something near the butt." So she reasons that the vagina is adjacent to the butt and calls him that.

The boy thinks, "What's a vagina? Is that a compliment or put down? I can't tell if she is being mean or nice with that poker face. I best not say anything. I'll just act cool and walk away."

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Rear is my disability school.

Usually, it was bottom. If Mom used "fanny," you were in trouble.

Here family doctors referred to anotomy by correct names need remove lower clothes for rectal temp need access to his bottom so on

Bottom was pretty common from my parents when I was young. Butt was more playful, less formal I suppose. And even more playful - sometimes I’d hear booty or tushy. Usually doctors used bottom or backside in my memory.

Best of my recollection my parents referred to my butt as backside, tush or buttocks. No memory of my doctor ever referring to it when young. As an adult, when I had a cyst removed, it was buttocks, glute, anus. For DREs, simply turn around and lean on the table or chair, pants were already down

I grew up in a rural area, my parents would call it my butt or ass, the doctor would say backside..

Both parents and doctors called ity bum. For suppositories they would say this goes in ur bum, or they would say “from the other end”…

Butt, ass, or buttocks were how I remember the doctor and my parents referred to it. Dad also used "rumpaseatus" when we were little.

Mom was the primary caretaker in our house. She always called it my bottom. All of my older sisters when they took care of me also always called it my bottom. I am guessing that they learned this from mom, since she taught all of them how to take care of me.

Mom's neighborhood lady friends that would also sometimes take care of me (if mom and all my sisters were out of town), also called it my bottom. They also called their bottom when referring to their own children.

At the clinic where I went to for all my physical checkups and sickness visits, all the nurses always called it my bottom. The doctors at the clinic sometimes might say my backside but most of the time referred to it as my bottom.

I had heard other children in my neighborhood and at school call it backside, bottom, butt, fanny, rearend, or tail.

In school one of my teachers had asked anyone to do a voluntary research paper on the words for backside, bottom, butt, fanny, rearend, and tail. I remember there were several boys and girls that brought in information they found during their research. When the teacher asked if anyone did any research, there were several that raised their hand. It was voluntary to go up front and read out loud to the classroom on the information that you found. There was one boy and one girl that in their research had discovered the word posterior. The teacher thought that was the best suited word to call your bottom.

To this day, I still call it my bottom. This is when talking to doctors, nurses or any other healthcare provider.

It was either butt or bum.

My parents, or Mom mostly, use the humorous "heinie" in referring to any person's butt, not just mine. They are the only 2 people I've ever known who use this rare word for butt. Even now so many years later it doesn't even sound like real word pffft *snicker*

Once, when I was around 13 or 14 and at a physical, the doctor instructed the nurse to give me a shot, and to do so "in his rear-end." This required me to lie on my side, and the nurse lowered my underwear a bit.

It was referred to as my bottom or in case of upcoming spanking...bare bottom!! 😃 Denise

My mom always referred to it as my bottom. I will never forget her explaining to me what an enema was and telling me that it was special medicine that goes inside of my bottom.

Always ‘bottom’.

Kids at school said ‘butt’ and later ‘ass’. I don’t really like ‘ass’ or ‘butt’ in an intimate setting. I’ve never understood ‘arse’ or how to pronounce it. Something about ‘heinie’ I find ridiculous & a bit degrading.

I recall fesses (buttocks) and derrière (behind). Was there a nuance between these two terms? I don't recall. I recall an aunt saying to me humorously after I mentioned swallowing a cherry pit: ça ne te bouchera pas le derrière (it will not obstruct your behind). There was also postérieur.

I think collectively the genitals and the buttocks were referred to as le bas ("down under") for, e.g., telling me to wash.

I don't remember what term the doctor used, they would just say "roll over on your tummy" if I they wanted access to my butt. At home it was either "tuchus" (Yiddish word pronounced Tookus") or Behind.

At the doctor, it was always called my bottom and when time for a temp, the nurse announced she had to take a rectal temperature and told me to lay on my belly. My mom similarly would refer to it as my bottom....hated when she inquired from the nurse if I needed a shot.

At the doctor, bottom was most common, but in our house, we almost always said tush or butt

Somehow I knew you had a bottom @GraceT . Nothing less refined would suit you. 😃