potty talk

Crude bodily humor

Potty talk is childish speech focused on bathroom functions, body parts, and bodily processes—the kind of humor that delights young children: The kids dissolved into giggles over their potty talk at dinner.

Adults use the term when gently correcting children or when characterizing crude humor as juvenile.

Related

bathroom humor · scatology · curse words · bad words · excretion · coarse language · bodily functions · body parts · dirty words · foul language · four letter words · expletives · scatological humor · gross out · profanities · vulgarisms · swearing · embarrassment

Categories
Opposites
register and propriety

potty talkpolite conversation

Courteous social discourse

civil discourse · clean language · courtly speech · diplomatic language · formal speech

subject matter

potty talkintellectual discourse

Serious exchange of ideas

social context appropriateness

potty talkgood manners

Socially acceptable conduct

table manners · inside voice · clean language

Family

talk, pot, pottery, talkative, talker, potty, teapot, potter, flowerpot

Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG