The Polish word for fart?

Hello, all my dad's grandparents came from Poland and my own grandparents were raised in Chicago speaking polish. Unfortunately my dad didn't learn much of the language, but he always used the polish word for fart which he pronounced as boo-it-ki. I am now studying polish and looked up fart to see how it is spelled, but only came up with the word bąk and bąki which is kind of similar. Was my dad just horribly mispronouncing the word or is booitki an archaic (great grandparent's time) form?

Also now that I think of it, we used to call my dad's grandmother, my great grandmother busha. I looked up grandma in the dictionary, but only find babka or babcia. Is this another corruption from my family or are these actual words?

Probably just his dialect. I've heard bąk used around my gassy 9-month old so much I've already replaced it in my head as being the proper word.

could be bączki (plural diminutive of bąk, sing. is bączek)

My parents used the word.. (Pierdzuk) I suppose it depended on where you came from in Poland

My wife's family use the 'bonk', not sure of the Polish spelling.

This post might throw some light on the subject...

THE MEANING OF YOUR POLISH LAST NAME?

The word pierdzi (sp?) comes to mind...?

"upierd" also:-)

poo-koo

Sounds almost like Russian "puKAT", hilarious false cognate with Polish "to knock" (on a door etc.) "pukać"
LOL

Close, but no. "Purkać" or "prukać" are the onomatopoeic versions of the word, imitating sound of gas discharge from the bowels. It is considered less vulgar, than some other ones.

From this comes a demeaning, insulting word "prukwa" - in reference to an old, unsympathetic, unfriendly woman.

I do not believe I joined the fray. This is your fault Lyzko. :-) What is wrong with these young Americans, that make them ask questions about kisomnia dupa, etc., and not about "uduchowienie" or other such exalted words?

boletus,I'll bite;what the hell does "udochowienie" mean,or is it too vulgar?

en.bab.la/dictionary/polish-english/uduchowienie

uduchowienie {n}............................spiritualization {noun}

the letter u instead of an o, I am not sure if there are two different words, one with an o and one with an u but that is what I found using google.

Catsoldier,Thank you,boletus,I read too quickly,my bad.

Mom's side came from Galicia. Maybe that's why? Puku and bąki are the only words I know :)

Your welcome.

My GF uses pierdzić, which I have of course now learned!

On the last page of "American Boys", doesn`t one of the main protagonists say: Popieprz bąka, a bąk brzdąka.. ??

I'd prefer "uwznioślenie"...

or another one, very much fancied by the CC clergy: ubogacenie.

just to give Catsoldier something to do ;)


which one do you have in mind?

Pffft---SKI

shooting bunnies

Seems like the toy, not the bird.

Contrary to what some respected Polish encyclopaedia (and many other second hand useless sources) say: "zbijanie bąków", "puszczanie bąka" or "strzelanie bąka" had originally nothing to do with the poor Great Bittern bird nor with the foul and loud physiological effects. The latter meaning came later in the process of imitation of the humming sound that some spinning tops were making.

Bąki, the simple lovely toys, became most popular in Poland during middle ages. Their design though was not exactly the same as the modern ones: there was no screw for propelling the toy, but the top was given the spinning motion by striking it with a little whip from the laying position until it reached enough speed to enter into the spinning and precession motions. The experts were able to maintain the motion by skillfully lashing the top from time to time - the same way as a skillful wagoner occasionally strikes his horses to maintain their speed. [Political correctness do not apply to the Middle Ages, especially in this topic]

I read somewhere that this top propelling method was still known among Polish folk before WWII. So now, here are the meanings of the phrases:

"zbijać bąki" - to strike the spinning tops
"puszczać bąki" - to start the tops
"strzelać bąki" - to crack the whip when spinning the tops

Bąk had many other names in Old Poland: cyga, kręglica, fryga, wartołka, warchołka. Andrzej Kochanowski, a nephew of the great Jan, wrote:

- Jaką po długich salach grą się bawią dzieci. W długiem kole patrzając, ta biczmi pędzona, krzywem kołem polata.

Pious £azarz Baranowicz, Archbishop of the Greek Rite of Czernihow, writing in XVII c used the metaphor of this game:

"Serce jako cyga, gdy ją zacinają

Obrót ustalon z cygi z zajęciem miewają.

Serce jak cyga nasze obrot stroi,

Pańskiego bicia jak cyga się boi."


How about that - was I "wzniosły" enough for you? :-)

I tried to find the original but can`t. Who has a copy of American Boys by Steven Smith to tell us how it goes in English what Morgan says to a new soldier arriving in vietnam?

You are a scary smart mthfcker, is what you are. I tell you what.

Certainly, thanks a lot. I feel uduchowiona, uwznioślona and ubogacona :)

it's short for babusia and I have seen busia's on Polish internet too

Thanks! I like it! :):):):)

Holy crap, I called my grandma busha too!