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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2021 23:10:44 GMT
For some reason, when my youngest potty trained, he referred to his underwear as "tiny shorts." In his defense, they really are tiny. He's 4.5 and still wears the smallest sized underwear we could find, and they're briefs, which makes them even tinier. It's so cute and now the whole family calls them that.
Actual shorts are "short pants."
Matthew has called the Street Sweeper a "Street Beaver" since he started talking and we've just never stopped calling it that.
What are cute names your kids have given things or phrases they use?
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Post by PLurker on May 20, 2021 23:27:06 GMT
"Washed eggs" is what my eldest called boiled eggs as I peeled them under running water.
Funnier still is they thought that is how I made them, by holding them under running water. I guess they never saw (or paid attention) to the boiling part. Boiled eggs were kept in fridge in blue bowl. One day when we were out I said "oh, I'll have to BOIL some more." Literal tears and I don't want cooked eggs! I want washed ones!" (age 3?) Could not get it through that thick little skull so finally I gave up with words. I said "wanna make one yourself?" handed the raw egg and they climbed up on stool, ran under water a while, cracked to open and plop! in the sink. Light bulb moment!
"that's what I was trying to tell you, honey. Mommy actually has to boil them first."
Yep. They're still "washed eggs" to this day!
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Post by gar on May 20, 2021 23:37:45 GMT
My grandson (4 and a half) insists that beans are beams (green beams/runner beams) and that chicken nuggets are chicken yuggets. He’s a smart kid with an amazing vocabulary but he’s adamant about these despite many gentle corrections 😊
My DDs used to call themselves muggy erkins instead of mucky urchins which was what I’d sometimes say after they’d been playing outside.
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Post by oliquig on May 20, 2021 23:42:36 GMT
My nephew (now 20) used to say mazagines instead of magazines.
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Post by PLurker on May 21, 2021 0:10:40 GMT
My nephew used to say "hairplane" instead of airplane. I just assumed it was a toddler mispronunciation until one day I looked up, pointed and said "Look, 'Kid', an airplane."
His head jerked and looked at me so quickly and asked "Why do you call them airplane's Aunt Lisa?". Clear as a bell.
Seems he misheard not mispronounced. 🤣
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Post by malibou on May 21, 2021 0:32:09 GMT
My nephew (now 20) used to say mazagines instead of magazines. Every one of my nieces and nephews and my son called them mazagines. I gave up years ago trying to remember what they are really called and exclusively use mazagine. No one has ever commented on that. Ds was an aminals kid and would use it on spelling tests, and in writings. His teachers tried to correct him, but he couldn't seem to get it. In 8th grade he came home horrified that we had let him call them aminals for so long. He is 20 now and still slips and calls them aminals. He also used to say shabu for I love you. That became our family thing and we all day shabu to each other everyday. |
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Post by bc2ca on May 21, 2021 0:58:42 GMT
Funnier still is they thought that is how I made them, by holding them under running water. love this  My favorite kid phrase will always be "corn on the bone" for corn on the cob from my niece. |
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Post by PLurker on May 21, 2021 1:09:01 GMT
Funnier still is they thought that is how I made them, by holding them under running water. love this  My favorite kid phrase will always be "corn on the bone" for corn on the cob from my niece. "corn on the bone" made me cackle out loud. And I think I've heard this from another's kid's mouth...? and yeah, I can still see my then 3 year old's face at the fail of "making a washed egg all by myself".  |
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Post by greendragonlady on May 21, 2021 2:26:04 GMT
When my son was little he loved black olives. I guess it was too much to say, so he used to call them "back offs"
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Post by milocat on May 21, 2021 2:32:51 GMT
"Washed eggs" is what my eldest called boiled eggs as I peeled them under running water. Funnier still is they thought that is how I made them, by holding them under running water. I guess they never saw (or paid attention) to the boiling part. Boiled eggs were kept in fridge in blue bowl. One day when we were out I said "oh, I'll have to BOIL some more." Literal tears and I don't want cooked eggs! I want washed ones!" (age 3?) Could not get it through that thick little skull so finally I gave up with words. I said "wanna make one yourself?" handed the raw egg and they climbed up on stool, ran under water a while, cracked to open and plop! in the sink. Light bulb moment! "that's what I was trying to tell you, honey. Mommy actually has to boil them first." Yep. They're still "washed eggs" to this day! My nephews were over and I said what do you want for lunch. Eggs said the younger one. I asked how he liked them cooked. The older one says raw. So my DDs and I are ?!? Then I remembered they like hard boiled, which would probably be straight from the fridge, "raw". Haha! We still often call convertibles "haha no roof". We never see them so we still like to say it. That's what younger DD exclaimed the first time she saw one. We also still say Santa and Mrs. Charlie. Again younger DD. My mom has a ceramic house and Santa and Mrs. Claus are inside and DD says "oh look there's Santa and Mrs. Charlie". |
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Post by Neisey on May 21, 2021 2:37:59 GMT
My two favorite kid sayings...
DD22 - when pouring chips from a bag into her grandfather’s bowl she would ask “would you like a little, or too much?” (Obviously she was paying attention when we would comment just a little, not too much LOL!
DD20 used to love to play house. She would say “wanna play house? You be da honey, I be da fweet pea.”
Babysat a kid who wanted sinkabur sandwiches...cucumber. So that’s what we call them now.
A coworker was appalled that her parents did not correct her on this one so she used it well into adulthood ...lemon “melang” pie.
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Post by **GypsyGirl** on May 21, 2021 2:38:52 GMT
When DD was young she had speech issues, so there were many mispronunciations. Some she still uses (for fun? out of habit?) are pink tails (pig tails), lemon laid (lemon aid), and skizzors (scissors).
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Post by bothmykidsrbrats on May 21, 2021 3:08:25 GMT
My kids said a lot of silly things and had goofy names for stuff, but some stuck into adulthood. My DS 23 still calls checking the mail "mail time" from Blues Clues. He also still refers to the driver of any delivery service as "the package man". We can't use the word package in general conversation, without our 4 dogs running to the front door and barking. DD19 intentionally says "I can't want to", as a throw back to her toddler fits, when she doesn't want to do something.
When DS was about 3 my MIL took him to the grocery store. He asked her if she was going to get any pounds? She had no idea what he was talking about, and didn't inquire further. When they past the deli DS yelled Here Grandma! Are we getting any pounds?
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2021 3:14:12 GMT
DS thought the Wells Fargo Wagon (from Music Man) was "Well-Sparkled Wagon".
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Post by karinms on May 21, 2021 3:37:35 GMT
My oldest came out practically talking in full sentences and my youngest barely said a word til he was 4. He could speak but didn’t need to. When he started talking he spoke clearly for the most part The one expression that it took a while for us to figure out was ‘warm part’. As in ‘I wanna go to warm part’. It wasn’t until a day or so later (and him saying it around 50 times) that he added ‘and buy a car’. Lightbulb moment, warm part was Walmart😉.
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Post by Basket1lady on May 21, 2021 3:53:02 GMT
DS called the chicken pox shot the “rooster shot”.
When he was about 8, he started using the word “chā-ōs (like shay-os). He'd seen the word chaos in a book but didn’t know how to pronounce it.
DD used to call toilet paper “paper toilet”.
Both kids would sing the song “sing hosannah, sing hosannah, sing hosannah to the King of kings”, but would sing it, “sing lasagna, sing lasagna, sing lasagna to the King of kings”.
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Post by PLurker on May 21, 2021 4:05:16 GMT
He also still refers to the driver of any delivery service as "the package man". DS would often refer to the "round the world truck" and didn't know what he was talking about until we came upon one one day. A UPS delivery truck with the globe logo on the side. And yeah, still a "round the world truck". |
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Post by jewelie121 on May 21, 2021 4:17:21 GMT
My oldest, who is now 21, would call the marks that socks make on your feet “sprinkles”. 😂 We have no idea where he got that from.
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Post by crazy4scraps on May 21, 2021 4:27:45 GMT
Funnier still is they thought that is how I made them, by holding them under running water. love this My favorite kid phrase will always be "corn on the bone" for corn on the cob from my niece. LOL. My kid used to call chicken from places like KFC “chicken with bones” as opposed to non bone chicken that comes from places like McDonald’s. She had a lot of quirky phrases when she was little that just totally cracked us up. My sister was just telling me the other day that she was watching one of her grandkids and it was raining so she said they would have to play inside. The little one looked out the window and said, “No, we CAN play outside because it’s only frinkling.” 🤣 |
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Post by lemondrop on May 21, 2021 4:49:44 GMT
These are so cute!
My DD at 4, when someone said something funny would say, “That’s the funniest joke I never heard.” Or maybe she was just being snarky at a very early age! LOL!
When she was 15, a friend’s older son rented a car and was very excited about it because it was a sporty car. I asked her what kind and she said it had a funny name, an “itsy bitsy spider”. What??? Turns out it was a Mitsubishi Spyder. Still makes me giggle.
DS had trouble with consonants and was frequently looking for his dumb fuck book (dump truck book). That one was always fun when we were out and about. “Mommy, when we get home , let’s read my dumb fuck book.”
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Post by ExpatBackHome on May 21, 2021 5:05:19 GMT
My younger DS says “girl cheese sandwich” for grilled cheese. My older DS said “togegher” for together. My older son said “foot fuzzies” for the lint that gets trapped between your toes from the socks. My younger son also says it.
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Post by snugglebutter on May 21, 2021 5:15:00 GMT
My toddler likes to watch me make my coffee drink in the mornings and he calls my hand held frother the wind. "I wanna see the wind."
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Post by peasapie on May 21, 2021 9:49:04 GMT
My oldest, who is now 21, would call the marks that socks make on your feet “sprinkles”. 😂 We have no idea where he got that from. My kids did (and still do jokingly as adults) called those leg marks fossils. My son use to say lawning the grass. |
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Post by jenjie on May 21, 2021 10:13:27 GMT
My nephew (now 20) used to say mazagines instead of magazines. I think I did this too! 😁 |
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Post by jenjie on May 21, 2021 10:15:31 GMT
When my son was little he loved black olives. I guess it was too much to say, so he used to call them "back offs" Or maybe because he wanted to eat them all? 😂 “Back off!” |
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Post by jenjie on May 21, 2021 10:17:56 GMT
Neisey “ DD20 used to love to play house. She would say “wanna play house? You be da honey, I be da fweet pea.” 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
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Post by MissBianca on May 21, 2021 10:19:23 GMT
Middle son had his own language and would argue with you if we tried to correct him. But all the kids have funny words that we still use.
Motorcycle is mococyclin’
Ambulance is am-blue-yance
Disneyworld is Dee Dee Wow
When DD was really little, probably about 5, we took oldest DD to a party, I think he was about 15. As he got out of the car she yells don’t do the drugging. So we say that everything one of the kids goes out with friends. We have no idea where that thought came from.
When I was younger we restored an old house so we got to paint our own rooms. When we came up to a nail hole or a patch and the paint didn’t go over it my dad called it a holiday. So I called it a holiday for the longest time. Now he swears up and down he never called it that.
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Post by artbabe on May 21, 2021 11:26:40 GMT
My nephew always called shorts "short pants". He is eleven now and this weekend he told me we need to buy some short pants, so I guess that one has stuck.
I know there are a bunch more- I need to think of them today and report back.
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Post by SabrinaP on May 21, 2021 11:37:02 GMT
Some of my boys favorites were Man-Man for Superman. My oldest loved Superman but always called him Man-Man
Boy Cheese for grilled cheese. My youngest cried when I asked if he wanted a grilled cheese because he thought it was called girl cheese. He would say no I want a boy cheese!
Frinkly instead of Wrinkly DS would get out of the bathtub and always have to show us how Frinkly he was.
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Post by dexter on May 21, 2021 12:31:25 GMT
One of my darlins used "pasta frosting" for marinara.
My son has a speech impediment and there are some words that I simply love his way of saying, but now that he is 13 he gets vry defensive and offended as if we are mocking him so I have to be very careful and mindful.
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