Who uses words that their kids made up?

CJhaughey

Just to lighten the atmosphere a little:)
I'll go first, my son @ ~3ish used the word Skibbitch to describe something that was dirty or untidy, and it has fallen into general use in our house.
Anyone else use any made-up words?

sickpuppy32

my daughter calls her grand dad " assey" "asseee?" , we all call him it now

di11on

For sure!

A helicopter is a happycop. :-)

An interesting one is our cat Bubblegum which our first daughter called "Gugum". This then became the new name for the cat. Then no. 2 comes along and Gugum turns into Gumgum.

It's funny, you think they are learning their language... but we're really learning theirs :-)

Latchy

My son as a baby use to call Ornaments the Mornaments with emphisise on the M : We always remind him of it to

RIRI

Great thread!

Buddybo for bus / Waggy for Granny (poor Granny - even my dad calls her that now!) and bickybee for biscuit, I even have the lads in work using that one.

Wally Runs

Mayonaise is now Ooogle sauce, no idea why. This does cause confusion when we eat out though. 'Do you have Ooogle sauce?'

The answer is always no, strange that.

workaccount

Ha Ha. This thread is funny.

Oryx

"whoo-dy woo-dys" for pins and needles you get when your arm or leg goes to sleep. (Ive tried, but cant really spell it as its pronounced )

di11on

Granny's partner's name is Francois.

Little one called him Fanfan which has now stuck - even granny uses it!

Love2love

There is an open space behind our back garden. We have a gate to get out to it. When my brothers were very young the use to call it the back-front. It's still used in our family and my son now knows it as the same.

LolaDub

My daughter says dam if she's giving you something in the cutest soft voice big eyed way they do when they're being sweet. If i'm in trouble she says gob gob gob and wags her finger at me!

Sesame

Us as kids used squaggle. Its a cuddle where you nearly smother somebody.

Davidth88

Brilliant thread !


All goa .... means something is finished

bumptbump means going down stairs ( as in bump bump ...... on your bottom ).

I am sure we have more

The latest thing ( not a word as such ) , we went to Belfast ( IKEA ) last week of course this is right next to the airport. So now all aeroplanes she sees are ' going to Belfast ', indeed she was building aeroplanes in Duplo last night that were going ' off to Belfast '
:-)

I love the innocence

workaccount

Davidth88 wrote: »

Brilliant thread !


All goa .... means something is finished

bumptbump means going down stairs ( as in bump bump ...... on your bottom ).

I am sure we have more

The latest thing ( not a word as such ) , we went to Belfast ( IKEA ) last week of course this is right next to the airport. So now all aeroplanes she sees are ' going to Belfast ', indeed she was building aeroplanes in Duplo last night that were going ' off to Belfast '
:-)

I love the innocence

She might be a pilot when she grows up now.

Nevyn

scoff+gobble =scobble

Davidth88

You know the funny thing , her best outing ( and a cheap one for us ) is if we take her to Weston for half an hour ........

She is excited for days afterwards

Occidental

Davidth88 wrote: »

I love the innocence

Was called to look in a field a few weeks ago, where the cows were giving each other jockey backs.

Nevyn

Mine like that too, to sit in the atrium bar and have a club orange

workaccount

Davidth88 wrote: »

You know the funny thing , her best outing ( and a cheap one for us ) is if we take her to Weston for half an hour ........

She is excited for days afterwards

Where does she get the fascination from??

Are other family members into the likes of planes?

di11on

Davidth88 wrote: »

Brilliant thread !
The latest thing ( not a word as such ) , we went to Belfast ( IKEA ) last week of course this is right next to the airport. So now all aeroplanes she sees are ' going to Belfast ', indeed she was building aeroplanes in Duplo last night that were going ' off to Belfast '

Hee hee... that reminds me... we went to Canada for a wedding a couple of summers ago. Now every plane we see, she asks is it a 'Canada Plane' :-) Also funny... we were attending a barbeque at the bride's familiy's house the day after the wedding. They had a large garden with a swimming pool in the middle. We saw our DD just standing there looking at the pool, gob smaked.

The she said: "Wow! They've got the sea in their garden" Poor Irish girl... she never saw a pool before in somone's garden before!

fletch

My mam made up a word that I used to use up until about the age of 14 or so. "smokarettes" instead of cigarettes....lol sounds so stupid now but I used to get annoyed when people didn't know what I was talking about.

watna

I'm 24 years old and my parents still us the things we used to say as babies.

The main ones being that rice krispies are called skippies (my mum even writes skippies on her shopping list!) and Coleslaw is called Cossel.

babyboom

We call dinner "nums nums", something my 2nd child created. Helicopters are Hairycopters, going for a drive is still "going a day day". My youngest's playschool teacher tells them she's going to "chop the wing wangs off them" if they're naughty - I'd love to know what the wing wangs are!

LolaDub

Going for a drive is beep peep, dinner is num nums unless hshe doesn't like it then its yocky! The dog is called puppy boo. Ah the cuteness!

EcoGirl

My sister who's now 32 used to call a hot water bottle a 'hoter bottle', and I imported that into my own family and we all use it!

Smartly Dressed

Egg = Googie

Pacifier = Do-Do

Television Remote = Zapper (Pronounced Sapper)

aurelio

tons of these in our family!"
"shuebye" - fluff - eg between the toes, in belly button, or worst of all, in the mouth
"skillage" - especially good skill in a football match
"commentation" - commentary in a football match
"meeno" - soother (dunno where it came from, child 3 decided this was the term to be used)
"eeeeo" - merry go round - likewise, decision made by child 3, inexplicable.
"pampa" - grampa, as per child 1, poor man now universally known as pampa
"gribbly" - green ribbed blanket knitted by great grandmother - obvious really.
"blankilly" - see above - non-green blanket
"snuggly" - you need to ask? eg can I come in to your bed for a snuggly?
"can we do forks?" - similar principle to doing spoons in bed
"macarena" - dance performed by All Blacks before a match - if only they knew!
"Lardy and Hardy" - famous comic duo
"themote" - remote control

hazeler

My daughter is now 6, so she tries to use "grown up" language at every possible moment... Her thing now is throwing "obviously" into every sentence... Its confusing because she's not sure where to use it and pronounces it "ov-i-bis-ly".

When she was little she used the word "pretember" for pretend. We still use it, but because she knows how to pronounce it properly now, Im reminded that 'thats the baby word Mommy!!!'.

nice1franko

cormerings - cornflakes
remocen - the remote control
meanies - the little onions on mcdonalds burgers (god forbid)
relember - remember

Quality

Strawberries are known as Fobbs.

Bobby is for bottle.

Nu Nu is for soother.

Loopy

Sleep is Bee Bee's - my friends were over the other nite and my OH was heading to bed and says ok Im heading to Bee Bee's now and they were like, K goodnite then...

My 6 yr old still calls dolphins, doliphants and is not amused when I laugh

Bottle is Boppy

Spagehetti is Sketti

Magazine is Mazagine

Hospital is Hostipal

luckat

I'll be talking about the hostible until I'm a skellington.

Weidii

We were waiting in the car for my mam to come out of the shopping centre when I was young, and I said "needles to say she'll find someone to talk to and take ages"

My dad still uses "needles" instead of "needless" when he says that :P

Some of my young cousins used to pronounce Cs as Ts when they were toddlers, so to this day cats are called tats and Conor is called Tonor.

watna

looptheloop wrote: »

Spagehetti is Sketti
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Ah yes, it's getty in out house. It's really my dad who keeps the kids saying up!

I do tell my OH we're having getty for dinner though!

hussey

My Nephew couldn't say Kevin when younger so he would say Ka instead
I've been know by my Bro + Sis as Ka for the last 6 years

Acoshla

I used to call any kind of insect peepy pawlies (insted of creepy crawlies), I said snow white and the seven dwarts,
and my favourite word was delinquent, but pronounced dewinklent, i told everyone they were one.

My cousin used to call a drink a glank, i still do it sometimes, people look at me funny.

Yakuza

My sister (we're talking about 20 years ago) used to hold the TV remote control over her head while saying "I have the power" - à la He-man.

From that day to this, remotes have been called "the powers" in my parents' house

MuPpItJoCkEy

Great thread. I'll add more in a while. Suppose to be working here.

A few years ago, I was sent to Morocco with work for a couple of months. My son pronounced it, Miyocko.

Everytime I go to work now, my son thinks Daddy is going to Miyocko.

Alice1

Splentacular = Splendid + spectacular.

Spottling - Spotless + sparkling

Words made up by my DD when she was 3 - and still used in our house!

We also say "I changed up my mind" rather than "I changed my mind" cos she used to say that.

Sleepy

As of meeting my girlfriends son for the first time I've been rechristened 'Nonah'. It's funny cos he can say Eoin but seems to prefer his own name for me. So too, it would seem, do the rest of her family.

DancingDaisy

Not sure why I was looking at this forum, but was browsing and this caught my eye.

When I was learning to talk I was unable to say Granny I said Aye-ie and this then progressed to Allie, so 21 years and 9 cousins later, my grandmother is known to all as Allie, my grand-aunts and grand-uncles, their children, even my Allies friend's when speaking to me or any of cousins refer to her as Allie, she even signs everything to any of us as Allie. I think she is proud of her different title.

And I also nicknamed my uncle called Donal, Uncle D, which has also stuck, that people within the family just call him D, his wife included, who picked up from me!!!!

robindch

Smartly Dressed wrote: »

Pacifier = Do-Do

Nah, "doo-doo" is something altogether yukkier down robindch-way

"row-row" is a laptop (the laptop has a dvd-player which plays "row-row your boat")
"woof" is a dog.
And blowing a raspberry means "fish". That one's from my generation, but our 21-month old likes it

Ebonyellie

My son used to call the escalator the magic stairs, hes 10 now and we still say it without thinking, he also used to call puddles 'holes full of piss'

Ozzie

Love2love wrote: »

There is an open space behind our back garden. We have a gate to get out to it. When my brothers were very young the use to call it the back-front. It's still used in our family and my son now knows it as the same.

our son calls a wet day (pinchy) and we use it now. "a piece of but and dam off gics and make yok" is some bread and jam off the big junks and close it over ( this not our son but a child who used to be minded at home we still use it )

baglady

when my sis was little, she referred to the game scrabble as scramble, 'because you scramble all the letters up!!!'

Lainey

my husband asked one night who was in the film we looked at and my daughter (then about 5) , answered him 'Tom Screws is in it daddy :D

still laughs in our house over this:D

car - a ro ro

katyb

my daughter used to call her pacifier her diddle no thats wat we all call it and even my 1yr old boy calls for his diddle too wen i used to change her nappy she used to call it her front bum she 3 and still calls it that so do i it funny wen she says it to her grany as she never nows were to wipe ha ha

watna

My OH and I have no children but we've already introduced new words to our vocabulary. He sent me a text recently telling me that he'd be late as the traffic was horrendous, except instead of the word horrendous he typed the word horsemous. Now whenever we want to say something is really bad it's horsemous......

..... it always makes us giggle!

di11on

In our house, growing up, someone got the brand and washing up liquid mixed up.

Now you put "Fairy up liquid" in the water to wash the dishes :-)

traceybere

my little one got her first pair of heal highs last week

Quality

My son is potty training at the moment.. His new word for pooh.. is "slug"

So now we ask him, is he going to do a "slug" on the potty...:o:o