Does anyone really say "tummies"?

Well I call my belly 'tummy'
My grown daughters call me 'mummy'
For a wee I need a 'loo'
And a number two's a 'poo'.

You have to dance when you sing it

I'm going to teach mg grandsons that one. Although the one who is a Scout probably knows it already.

Nellie is that a hymn, or an aria?! #website

Re my previous post about a this rhyme my dad use to say!

"And the cow in the barn
Kicked Nellie in the belly.
But the old man said
It wouldn't do her any harm!"

I have found a version that appears to be a campfire song.
Isn't the internet wonderful!

odps.org/glossword/?a=term&d=5&t=34

I have puzzled over that ditty for about 60 yrs!

I shall sleep happily now!
Night Night!

Hope you do not come across too many AAAs, Galen.
Abdomen always makes me think of insects, head, abdomen and thorax.

Humph! Medical is abdomen!

You've seen mine then phoenix

Very true Penstemmon But better than "over shoulder boulder holders"

For some reason my DGDs refer to bras as 'boobybras' not sure where else they imagine you would wear one!

Poos (our family word) were called 'big lots' by Mrs Bucket aka my mother.

Euphemisms can get you into trouble. I knew a little boy who used to say he needed to 'Go and think' when he needed to poop! In school the teachers were confused as was he when they told him to sit down at his desk and think!

When we moved to Devon thirty five years ago, I noticed that the word belly was commonly used rather than tummy by most Devonians, along with phrases such as where's it to?
I too am Mummy to my adult daughters.I expect there are a few of us around!

Oh dear yes. Many things make a woman common (according to my mum). White shoes, smoking in the street, drinking pints, speaking to loudly, swearing, wearing short skirts, wearing low tops, tattoos, too much makeup, badly dyed hair, roots showing through dyed hair....the list is endless.

thatbags I think that big jobby is/was a Scottish expression because that is the word that I was brought up with.

A woman wearing white shoes would be "common" in my mother's eyes. Except at school to go with my white dress and veil I have never possessed a pair of white shoes, except trainers.

I'm a bit (a lot) of a pain wuss so when I'm ok I have stomach but if I'm in pain I revert to childhood and have tummy ache.

As for bodily functions I go for a wee or to the toilet if it's the other. I can't even type the other words lol.

OMG I didn't realise I was such a prude lol

This conversation reminds me of part of a rhyme my dad used to recite and My mum would seem to consider it very rude.
I could never understand why though.

And the cow in the barn
Kicked Nellie in the belly.
But the old man said
It wouldn't do her any harm!

I will have to look it up!

galen

Ps She understands what I meant now.

not to, not now to..

DD3 is nearly as tall as me now (an inch to go!) but when her head was at boob height, if she was being a bit vigorous with the hugs, I used to ask her now to bash my boobs. She just used to grin.

In Edinburgh when the two older DDs were at the potty stage, it was called a Big Jobby! I rather liked that.

When my younger grandchildren are getting particularly rambunctious and bouncing about all over me, I ask them to be careful of Grana's soft underbelly.