craftykitten
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Post by craftykitten on Sept 29, 2020 15:02:46 GMT
Thought I would start a lighthearted thread, and because I've just had to place an amazon order for some...
We bought a hot glue gun for crafty projects and Mr Craftykitten has decided to call it "hot snot".
When we first got together he spent a long time trying to convince me that the Japanese word for squirrel was "squee-baru". This is what we call them now.
Also we call sparrows, spadgers, but apparently this is a regional UK thing.
Tell me yours?
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Post by malibou on Sept 29, 2020 15:19:40 GMT
As a kid I called all flavours of pot pie, chicken pox pie. So if it is a lamb pot pie, it's a lamb chicken pox pie. Every person I've lived with now calls them chicken pox pie. This from the girl that had chicken pox twice. 😀
There are couple we adopted when Ds was little like mazagine instead of magazine. I don't even bother to try to fix that one as most of the time I can't remember which is correct. We also call zebras, beezbras. Ds had 3 beanie zebras, we think he was trying to call them zebra brothers. Another that stuck around came after watching Aristocats, Ds called Duchess, cutchess. So yeah in our house it Cutchess Kate. Sounds good though doesn't it.
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lesley
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Post by lesley on Sept 29, 2020 15:27:22 GMT
DD was a proficient reader as a child, and often read books beyond her years. But because she was coming across words or phrases she had never come across before, she would come up with her own pronunciations. The ones that have stuck are "juvenile dequeetelment” (delinquent), and “getunia pig” for guinea pig. ETA craftykitten, in Scotland sparrows are known as spyugs. (One syllable)
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Post by tommygirl on Sept 29, 2020 15:33:30 GMT
A friend just posted on Facebook that her 3 year old dd calls a skunk a stunk. Kind of appropriate!
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RedSquirrelUK
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Sept 29, 2020 15:34:59 GMT
We have LOADS of non-standard expressions and words in our household. Squirrels are squiglets. Sparrows are spadgers. Boxers are undercrackers or punts. The gecko is a geck. Candles are cangles and cuddles are cuggles (mixture of cuddle and hug).
In Singapore, if you want to know if something is possible, you ask "can?" and the answer is "can can". They say to "on" the lights instead of "turn on" the lights and "up" the volume instead of "turn up" the volume. So our evening conversation in front of the TV might begin "can you up it?" "can can". And it might end "I'm going to bed, are you coming?" "In a few minutes. I'll off the TV and the cangles."
And the more I type, the weirder we seem. Heck.
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Post by mom2rjcr on Sept 29, 2020 16:15:58 GMT
I call the tool that is used to weed out the vinyl when I use the cricut a hooky loo...I don't know what is really called but that's its name for me.
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milocat
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Post by milocat on Sept 29, 2020 16:36:15 GMT
When youngest DD was little we were on summer holidays and she saw a convertible for the first time and she yelled haha that car has no roof!! We still call them haha no roof, even my nieces do. We rarely see them around here.
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Post by femalebusiness on Sept 29, 2020 16:39:40 GMT
The part for a toilet is called a ball cock. My husband mangles names hilariously. He calls Food For Less, Big 4 and now we all do.
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peabay
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Post by peabay on Sept 29, 2020 16:43:14 GMT
When dd#2 was little, she had a mild speech impediment and didn't say the "s" sound before words that started with s (e.g. "nake" for "snake"; "crape" for "scrape.") She had a spot she liked to sit on the couch after preschool, where she'd watch Little Bear and eat her lunch (creature of habit - this went on every day like clockwork and she ate her turkey and cheese sandwich. And she is still, very much, at 26, a creature of habit.) If someone was in her place on the couch, she'd say "get out of my POT!" And that has been part of the family vernacular ever since. If anyone is sitting/standing/lying where someone else wants to be, it's "get out of my POT!" I'm sure people think we're insane.
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anniebeth24
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Post by anniebeth24 on Sept 29, 2020 17:40:49 GMT
DD said "chew-meez" in place of "excuse me" when she was tiny.
It has become so much a part of our vocabulary that both DH and I have said it OUT LOUD to strangers when passing by in a shop.
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nylene
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Post by nylene on Sept 29, 2020 17:45:23 GMT
Windshield wipers will forever be "Windle-Shipers" at our home.
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Post by ~summer~ on Sept 29, 2020 17:47:10 GMT
When we drive over rumble strips on a road trip we always yell “CALL OF THE BEAVER!”
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Post by mikklynn on Sept 29, 2020 18:22:52 GMT
Our DS called the lawn sprinkler a splinkler. We still say splinkler.
He also would say "eeps" instead of "oops". We do that, too.
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Post by Skellinton on Sept 29, 2020 18:31:04 GMT
We call sour cream “farmhouse gelatin”. It stems from a Conversation a friend and I had in high school (yes we were completely sober) about cottage cheese being curdled milk and yogurt being bacteria milk but that they got “pretty” names so we decided to liberate poor sour cream and give it a pretty name as well. We settled on Farmhouse Gelatin and for the past 30 years I have called it that. I like to think she is doing the same, but we lost contact and I have no idea. I added FG to my paprika app, so it could be added to my grocery list appropriately. I call it that when I telling someone a recipe and if I were to order a baked potato while out I would have to check myself before I ordered FG. It is so natural to me and my family at this time we don’t even think about it.
I actually wrote a recipe for a coworker once and wrote that down without even thinking. She came to work next week asking where in the world I found farmhouse gelatin. She had been to several stores, including a special trip to Whole Foods and our local fancy market trying to find the farmhouse gelatin.
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Post by gar on Sept 29, 2020 18:32:37 GMT
Grubby kids are muggy erkins (from mucky urchin), Dh calls Christmas Crimbo, crisps (potato chips) are pippies. There's probably more
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Post by malibou on Sept 29, 2020 19:05:34 GMT
I was just reading these to ds. He asked me if I realized when I was singing the profane Let's Talk Dirty to the Animals song earlier that I was singing aminals. Lol
Ds came home from high school one day wanting to know what was wrong with us. His biology teacher corrected him when he said aminals, and Ds tried to tell him he was mistaken. The entire class erupted in giggles and Ds spent a good solid week thinking we were Assholes for letting it go on so long. I love the word aminals.
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peaname
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Post by peaname on Sept 29, 2020 19:17:44 GMT
After one of my sons thought we passed farmer John cheese at the table on spaghetti night I no longer say Parmesan!
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Post by beachhappy22 on Sept 29, 2020 19:53:52 GMT
When my DS was small he would always ask if he could “petal” the dog. We still say it to this day. Our lab gets lots of petals every day.
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mystydog
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Jul 3, 2014 7:28:10 GMT
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Post by mystydog on Sept 29, 2020 20:00:04 GMT
My youngest son thought all meat was called chicken.
Our Sunday roasts were either Pork Chicken, Lamb Chicken, Beef Chicken or Chicken Chicken.
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Post by malibou on Sept 29, 2020 21:05:34 GMT
My youngest son thought all meat was called chicken. Our Sunday roasts were either Pork Chicken, Lamb Chicken, Beef Chicken or Chicken Chicken. My mind of kid. 😁 I was the one that posted about all pot pie being chicken pox pie. Lamb chicken pox pie, Turkey chicken pox pie and yes, chicken chicken pox pie.
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scrappinwithoutpeas
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Post by scrappinwithoutpeas on Sept 29, 2020 22:00:38 GMT
These are hilarious. Glad to know our family is not the only weirdos out there, LOL! In our house "What's for dinner?" is "Wuffa bimma?" from DS trying to ask the question while he ALREADY HAD A MOUTHFUL OF FOOD. This was when he was about 14 and in his prime teen growth spurt years. We teased him but still adopted the phrase. The remote control is sometimes a "marote" from when DD#2 pronounced it that way. "Confuzzled" is her word for when someone is both confused and puzzled. There are more, but I can't think of them at the moment. I'll add them later if/when I think of them.
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Post by Skellinton on Sept 29, 2020 22:15:36 GMT
I was just reading these to ds. He asked me if I realized when I was singing the profane Let's Talk Dirty to the Animals song earlier that I was singing aminals. Lol Ds came home from high school one day wanting to know what was wrong with us. His biology teacher corrected him when he said aminals, and Ds tried to tell him he was mistaken. The entire class erupted in giggles and Ds spent a good solid week thinking we were Assholes for letting it go on so long. I love the word aminals. Have you ever read the kid’s book “The Aminal”? It is one of my very favorite kid books.
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craftykitten
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Post by craftykitten on Sept 29, 2020 22:25:57 GMT
I am loving all of these! lesley guinea pigs to us are "pinny gigs". Mr Craftykitten is a master of the spoonerism.
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edie3
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Post by edie3 on Sept 29, 2020 22:33:37 GMT
Growing up, we called the whipped cream in a spray can Whoopie. I guess one of us got excited when they saw it and said "Whoopie!"
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2020 22:47:47 GMT
When DS9 was 3, he called Street Sweepers, “Street Beavers.” It stuck. We all call them that now, and have told younger DS (age 3) that that’s what they’re called 😂
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Post by marmargirl on Sept 29, 2020 23:04:31 GMT
My husband’s younger brother is 16 years younger than him and when he was about three, instead of saying “you drive me nuts” he would say “you drive my nuts”.
My husband and I still say that to each other 😄
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Post by gorgeouskid on Sept 29, 2020 23:10:46 GMT
boobs-away is a bra (because when you put the bra on, the boobs go away- breastfeeding reference) golopter- helicopter boob necklace (I had an at breast supplementer and it went around my neck) beanabilla- peanut butter The Phoenix- Phoenix, where my ILs lived, is always The Phoenix
I'm sure there are more...
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milocat
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Post by milocat on Sept 29, 2020 23:26:05 GMT
My youngest son thought all meat was called chicken. Our Sunday roasts were either Pork Chicken, Lamb Chicken, Beef Chicken or Chicken Chicken. A friend's kid would only eat "chicken" so everything was chicken. Pork chop chicken, hamburger chicken, just had to make sure others added the chicken and he'd eat it.
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Post by KikiPea on Sept 29, 2020 23:26:47 GMT
One day I was texting DH and said to add bababas to the grocery list. We now call bananas bababas, and our pup JJ knows what that means. He LOVES bababas. 🤣
I also accidentally called a fidget spinner a spidget finner, so that’s what we call them now.
A bra is a boulder holder.
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Post by femalebusiness on Sept 29, 2020 23:50:51 GMT
My daughter called my Volkswagen bug the Vack-a-vogan. And she called barefooted, betterfooted. We still say Vack-a-vogan.
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