Your family's unique vocabulary (teens, pacifier, parents, boys)

[pinetreelover]

I was thinking about this tonight as I was making dinner for my two teens and reached for a "smashula". For 16 years now, a spatula has been called a smashula ever since my then 2 year old son mixed up the words. We decided that smashula was more descriptive and accurate than a spatula anyway!

Another family vocabulary word is "chickmunk" rather than the traditional chipmunk.

What words are unique to your family vocabulary?

[Bette]

My dad used to serve the plates - sometimes, he would kid around and call asparagus "asper grass".

When my son was 1 year or so, he kept saying "Bobbi" - that was his word for Mommy - we finally figured it out.

[passwithoutatrace]

When I was first learning the alphabet I couldn't say "W" so according to my parents I called it "Dubbie!"

I had some neighbors who would ask their child, "Do you want some of these?" when referring to fruit snacks. She ended up calling them "Dees" for the longest time!

[lucknow]

In my family we called farts, burglars.
Female private parts are lulus
Animals are known as critters
My mom was so scared of snakes we didn't even say the word but called them Sssssss while moving our finger in a snakey way.
One of my kids was a little dislexic and so he often said, melonwater, cumbercues, flowercollie.

[DubbleT]

Tacky Toes = taquitos
Smider = when your fingers imitate a spider like motion, as in "Uh oh mom, there's a smider crawling up your arm".

[Penguin_ie]

In my family, farts are ducks. No idea why!
Diapers are nappies and pacifiers soothies, because I'm from Ireland.

Rather than saying "yeah", we sometimes say "aaack", because we love penguins

[magoomafoo]

For pop tart-my boys said part tart
underwear was wonderwear
oatmeal was oinkmeal
roast beef was roast beast

[AnonChick]

Turtle: toonie
Necktie: something sounding like "blue and bly"
Original VW Bug: snorreld-car
Egypt: pronounced closer to how it's spelled: Iggy-Pit
Egyptians: similar to above: Iggy-Pitty-ans.

My older relatives always refered to the refrigerator as the Frigidaire, because at one point in history, that was the only brand most people had in their homes. So even if it's a Westinghouse, or an LG, or a Haier, it's still a Frigidaire.

Our family is of European Jewish descent, so we have a lot of yiddish expressions in our vocabulary. Very common one is "gonseh megilla." It means "big deal." In context: "Oh stop making such a gonseh megilla out of it, and do your homework already."

[JustJulia]

Funny thread! Some of ours:

Meeflope = meatloaf
Homework = motor home (daughter got the words confused)
Binachos = nachos
Packpack = backpack

I'm sure there are tons more but that's all I can think of now. I have lots of silly, affectionate names for them like Hunca Munca and Cheeky Beak.

[Katarina Witt]

My kids are grown, and I struggle to think of some of these words, but one we still use is "maca" for macaroni and cheese. We had "Box Maca" (from the box), "Mama Maca" (homemade), and "Mormon Maca" from a recipe in a cookbook a friend who is a Mormon gave me (also homemade).