Trump (= fart)

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    TomHart

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    LAHs said:
    Anyone from the South of England use it?
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    No.

    Having grown up in Devon and Sussex, it took me a while to understand why Yorkshire relatives and friends found Trump's name so hilarious.

    Beyond referring to the best suit in a game of cards, it means nothing to someone from the south of England.
     
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    ain'ttranslationfun?

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    I have come across "ass-trumpet" for butt thunder. I wonder if people are starting to say, after hearing (or getting a whiff of) an anal sneeze nearby, "Hey, who Donalded?" (a "Donald" - a noxious emission of hot air from the nether regions)? Gives new meaning to 'the (a**)hole in the ozone layer'.
     
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    suzi br

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    Yes we thought Trumpton was a funny name in our house (Midlands based).
    We could not play the card game with "trumps" for laughing when we were kids ...

    Seems a great name for an idiot like Donald in the current political context.
     
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    yellerbelly

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    I grew up in Lincolnshire and have since traced my family back to the 1600's in that county and before passing the 11 plus I spoke quite a different language, it was the normal way of speaking to our family and neighbours but that way of talking had to be educated out of me!! I bet most people would not understand my grandparents' generation these days duck but they 'trumped'! But they never 'trumped' down in Surrey when I lived there, if they ever admitted to it they 'let wind'! I had an interesting time at university in New Zealand looking up the roots of swear words to discover that the ones I used that were not bad language in Lincolnshire had Old English roots whereas the ones that I thought were really naughty were words with French origins like 'pissoir'. Must have been something to do with the Norman conquest and the Anglo Saxons hanging on to all they had left - their language!
     
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    rwza01

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    yellerbelly said:
    I grew up in Lincolnshire and have since traced my family back to the 1600's in that county and before passing the 11 plus I spoke quite a different language, it was the normal way of speaking to our family and neighbours but that way of talking had to be educated out of me!! I bet most people would not understand my grandparents' generation these days duck but they 'trumped'! But they never 'trumped' down in Surrey when I lived there, if they ever admitted to it they 'let wind'! I had an interesting time at university in New Zealand looking up the roots of swear words to discover that the ones I used that were not bad language in Lincolnshire had Old English roots whereas the ones that I thought were really naughty were words with French origins like 'pissoir'. Must have been something to do with the Norman conquest and the Anglo Saxons hanging on to all they had left - their language!
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    Long time since I heard yellerbelly (or "yellow belly" as I thought it was). Means somebody from Lincs, in case people don't know.

    I grew up in Lincolnshire and then in Norfolk (where you say "dumpling" to indicate somebody from there) and I certainly used trump all the time to mean fart. I remember also as a kid, before trumping, being required to say "taxi barrrppphhh" and pulling down my hand like a lorry (that's British English for truck) driver sounding his air horn. If you didn't, you'd get "bundled" - the other kids would jump on you and you'd get squashed at the bottom of a pile.

    I'm also pretty sure that even native British English speakers, other than those from the area, would struggle to understand my grandfather's Lincs dialect. I had no problem understanding but I wouldn't be able to speak it - I'd recognise the meaning of the words that he used but wouldn't remember to use them myself.

    I also still confuse people by referring to dinner and tea rather than lunch and dinner. I usually remember to use the wrong words but occasionally slip back into the proper definitions.
     
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    Arfur Mo

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    I've only just come across this thread, and couldn't resist reporting something that was said to me in the pub. Time has moved on, and our cousins now have a new top trump.
    The bloke in the pub, musing out loud, said that supermarkets are said to be the "beating heart of America", (I didn't know that, but I'll take his word).
    He went on to suppose that recent events in the land of the free has put a new kid on the block in the form of a "Cheating Fart of America".
    I doubt if this would have been said if the word "trump" wasn't a synonym for "fart" in these parts.
     
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    ain'ttranslationfun?

    Senior Member
    US English
    "You Cheatin' Fart" is also a play on a well-known country song title, "Your Cheatin' Heart"§. Many supporters of T**** are also fans of country music.

    § Maybe sung by Tammy Wynette?
     
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    Loob

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    English UK
    ManOfWords said:
    would there be like the last breath? could we say (times gone by) that break wind and breathing might have been synonyms? Or I am way off ... :oops:
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    Here's the text concerned:

    52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

    As the context indicates, "trump" here = sound of the trumpet / trumpet blast.
     
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    Roxxxannne

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    American English (New England and NYC)
    The connection between trumpets and farting was recognized by Aristophanes in Clouds, line 165, in a scene about Socrates' "research interests":
    Then the gnats' asshole is a trumpet (σάλπιγξ ὁ πρωκτός ἐστιν ἄρα τῶν ἐμπίδων).
     
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