Made-Up Words Your Family Uses

Most families have their own sayings or terms that no one else uses, same with mine.

Most of them are quite standard; cuggling = a cross between hugs and cuddles, Britching = scratching an itchy back, and Fanky = a term used for something that is both funky smelling and manky. For example if you found yourself squashed below a less than fragrant person of questionable hygiene strap hanging on the train or bus, you'd have been stuck in someones fanky armpit.

Other terms aren't as easily explained. In our house, we used to have an almost constant supply of Freddos - those small chocolate bars in the shape of a frog - the perfect size for a cup of tea or small treat. My dad has always referred to Freddos as Frog Bastards. Nobody knows why, not even my dad. I had a multipack of frog bastards in my work refridgerator and asked a colleague if he wanted a frog bastard with his coffee. He didn't, for some reason.

Another word used by us all is Blempt. If some minor crime has been committed you do not want to be the person on whom it gets blempt, because somehow that's much worse than being blamed. I used it recently in the company of Americans but easily convinced them it was a British colloquialism.

One I use all the time is Blunch. You can keep your 'brunch' nonsense, in my world a cross between breakfast and lunch is blunch and always will be. In fact, I had a small sandwich for my blunch today.

Lots of kids have trouble pronouncing the word hospital, but no one in my family did because we called it the Hostabuilding. The hospital is actually inside the hostabuilding though most people don't know that, only the select few like myself.

My parents didn't smack us but would refer to a smack on the butt as a Honcho, because it was a belt to the haunches that made you go 'Oh!'. Which, if you think about it, makes a bit of sense.

Any makey-uppy words peculiar to your family that the Oxford Dictionary could consider for inclusion in future editions?