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Fribblers.
Any residue the washer upper hasn't cleaned off properly is called spobble.
Punge = 💩
Comes from the little ones and their nappies: whew that's pungent one = must be full of punge.
Swimsuit is called "wimson" because it was what my daughter called it when she was very small.
My niece's partner is called Bodo.
We call him Bodewell (not to his face obvs).
Ours are mostly food based for some reason.
Bananas are called bongalees. No idea why.
Eggs are weggs.
Steak is snake.
Duvet is pronounced phonetically, dove-ette
Jalapenos are Jelly Bingos
Huggle!
🙂
‘Iffinity’
A hybrid of affinity and authority. As in “I’m an iffinity on that” meaning that you both have an affinity for and are an authority on something.
Source- a friend who mumbled ‘affinity’ when they meant ‘authority’.
The problem is we have all now started using it in conversation with other people.
Also- ‘pan-yays’ are things you use to carry things on the back of your bike.
Accumbulate - like accumulate but less intentional. Things [i]tend[/i] to accumbulate.
Ponk - the game of snooker, so named for the noise the cue makes when it strikes the cue ball. You can play or watch ponk, and while playing ponk you can also find yourself ponked.
Le Ponking - French for ponk.
Narmaleen? - do you know what I mean?
Seemaleen? - do you see what I mean?
Stanmaleen? - do you understand what I mean?
ditto for dove-ette
Spaghetti is spagoogy after our daughters attempts as a toddler
Squirrels are squiggles from my nephew's mispronunciation
Fuzzbuckets
Highland Ewoks
The problem is we have all now started using it in conversation with other peopl
That can be a problem!! Especially when kids use made-up words for pissing and crapping and people have no idea what they're on about.
dorpest cherru
as in darkest peru, where paddinton came from.
my 28 year old son hates it when I ask him where Paddington came from...… ;o)
Wembley- stain on underpants post wee.
Had to explain to my seven y/o that probably only half a dozen folk in Cumbria might have an idea what he’s on about.
'doggy juice'...
Orange squash served in an Ikea doggy beaker thing. All squash is now "doggy juice"!
DrP
That can be a problem!! Especially when kids use made-up words for pissing and crapping and people have no idea what they’re on about.
Chooch.
Dad was a navy radio operator in the war and therefore an expert in morse code. He taught us how to spell BANANA in Morse, DAH DIT DIT DIT DIT DAH DAH DIT DIT DAH DAH DIT DIT DAH. From then on bananas were always known as DAH DIT DIT DITs
Eemart
This means helmet.
A young friend back in our Leigh Park days actually used to pronounce the word helmet in this way. We enjoyed this so much we kept the word in our family.
Moozer - the source of any mysterious itch. An as yet unidentified species of tiny insect which exists only to irritate people.
"Why are you scratching all the time?
"Ah'm hoachin' wi' moozers"
Bumby. As in 'he's so bumby, he is the bumbiest' when looking at our lovely cat who is called Sullivan but is usually referred to as Mr Bumby.
I have no idea why.
Soorly
Mixture of sore and poorly
Dad was a navy radio operator in the war and therefore an expert in morse code. He taught us how to spell BANANA in Morse, DAH DIT DIT DIT DIT DAH DAH DIT DIT DAH DAH DIT DIT DAH. From then on bananas were always known as DAH DIT DIT DITs
Ha^
My granddad was a radio operator in WWII too. It saved his life as the rest of his unit got hit but he was inside a vehicle on the radio ☹.
Anyway… during many a conversation with him his hand would start “keying”. PTSD, habbit or just tapping out what he really thought rather than what he was saying out loud? Who knows.
Italian father in law wrote a note put onto the kitchen table (many years ago) asking MiL and kids to put out 'willie the bin' as he misheard wheelie bin
Wangy; any veg that is past its best but still edible
"Best use those carrots up, they're looking a bit wangy"
Faffon (said in a French accent)
The general faff of mtbers before the start of a ride, coined on an Alps trips to designate the French version, but also the heightened level of pre ride faff that big days in the mountains tend to produce as a side effect of the size of the coming ride.</span>
"Jarbees", from the word my toddler son used for pyjamas.
"Moobag", a grumpy child. My daughter was a massive moobag when she was about five and even bedtime was a huge battle.
****ing Pokemon!
cwushion = cushion.
A mate of mine said it when a few of us were round his house as teenagers. We took the piss, obviously, but he was adamant that it was pronounced with a "w". He went to get his older brother, who backed him 100%.
So who knows where that started, but it's always tickled me, my wife's heard me tell the story a few times, and we probably now say "cwushion" more often than cushion. Our eldest is a the "soaking everything up" stage, so ridicule could await him.
Contraption - word used to describe a clothes airier until I was about 19 and my housemate looked at me blankly.
My parents refer to the dogs toys as "nu nu's", presumably a relic of something I called a cuddly toy as a kid (and those are now the dogs). Which is funny because it's what my OH calls her...........
Torrentious. As in, "I'm not riding in that rain, it's torrentious".
Also Fairy Liquid is Fairy Up Liquid. Not really sure why, a housemate at university brought that one with him and it's stuck with me ever since.
Also Fairy Liquid is Fairy Up Liquid
We have Fairy Up or Sqezy Up too 😆
The remote control for the TV has always, and forever shall be, known as the Plunker
Italian father in law wrote a note put onto the kitchen table (many years ago) asking MiL and kids to put out ‘willie the bin’ as he misheard wheelie bin
Foreigners are an endless source of fun.
French person called doughnuts "duffnuts" and Big Whopper "Big Hooper". Colleague wrote "Toed" instead of "Towed". Another was making a list of stuff we need, and how much. Someone said "a shit load" and he wrote down "sheet load".
The remote control for the TV has always, and forever shall be, known as the Plunker
Zapper. Or as my daughter used to say "buddy apper" because she'd heard us saying "where's the bloody zapper?".
"heined"
as in 'what you just did was heinous; it heined me'
a word I stole from a mate at college many years ago, and which should exist
Remote is the clacker in ours 😬
The remote control for the TV has always, and forever shall be, known as the Plunker
Zapper at our house too.
We don't go sledging in our house, apparently it's called Peterbogering..
Biddleebo for wheelbarrow after my son's young pronunciation.
He also used to pronounce robber as 'robbar' so now any word in our house that ends in 'er' is pronounced with 'ar' at the end. e.g. @senor j's clacker would be the clackar in our house.
My son is 19 now. Oh, how he laughs at our deliberate mispronunciations. 🙂
TV remote is doofer
Ours are mainly mispronounciations:
The Radio Times is pronounced as though Greek "rad-ee-ot-imees" - think we nicked that from Victor Lewis-Smith of all people.
The sheet that falls between page eight and page ten of the radeeotimees and any other document is pronounced the same as the name of the composer / musician "Paganini".
A newer one that only appears at that special time of year when the double issue radeeotimees is actually bought, was originally my attempt to satirise the appalling facebook / mumsnetty language abuse but was so striking that it has now caught in our household and is used far too frequently. Hanging my head in shame for this one: Chrimblybobs.
Faffon (said in a French accent)
Does anybody else use "faffige"? As in
"Do you want to go for a ride with x&y?"
"Nah, there'll be too much faffage"
Now used as a general term for spending too long preparing to start something.
"dressder"
As in "I am more dressed than you are"
scrim brim = ice cream
bubby = bread
harvard = any product purchased that turns out to be crap.
Me and Jr use the word remote for the remote, but we can't mention it without saying "The remote that controls what? The Robot?!" from which film? 😀
Rad-ee-ot-I-mees is a classic 🙂
I am going to give heined a try. Piers Morgan was on the TV earlier, I'm still feeling heined now.
Lots of strange words in our family.
A jumblatt is a wallet, after Walid Jumblatt the Lebanese Druze leader.
A Sacamain is a handbag, from the French.
Loo roll is "swipe of the R variety".
A jumblatt is a wallet, after Walid Jumblatt the Lebanese Druze leader.
Doesn't everyone say that?
'plonk' to describe the pile of clean clothes washing that needs to be sorted & put away
"have you done the plonk?"
"who's tackling the plonk mountain then?"
Origin lost in time but something to do with wine... if i can get through the washing then i can sit down and have a glass of plonk
Telyputer - The TV with a Mac Mini attached that we use as a media centre.
Crossalonts - for breakfast with other pastries.
Does anybody else use “faffige”? As in
Yep, used in our house.
A favourite dish in our house when growing up was mum's chicken broth which she made with the carcass and left over chicken on a Monday after the Sunday roast. My sister and still follow this ritual in our own houses and it's called Chicken Brothel.
Remote = dibber.
TV remote is doofer
It absolutely is.
The uncomfortable noise an open car window makes is "hubbling".
Daddies medicine - beer
Grohl - bog roll (an eccentric Auntie knitted us an old fashioned toilet roll cover, that whilst supposed to look like a Victorian lady in all her finery had a facial resemblance to the Foo Fighters Frontman)
Bed-raggled for bedraggled
Usually related to how scruffy the dog looks when she’s just woken up but now common parlance for anything scruffy
Juicey for dilute orange (cos nephew used to say it as a baby)
Zapper for the remote
Faffage I use a lot. I have zero tolerance for faffage
Heffalump for Elephant ( house at poo corner?)
Discombobulated for confused
My 14.5 year old daughter still has “jarm-jarms” as she could not get her head around the word ‘pyjamas’.
She is also known as ‘Bafryn’ as that is what she called herself for 3 years - unable to pronounce ‘Kathryn’. She also has from a young age called herself ‘Mini-boss’ as I was the ‘big boss’ (At least according to her!).
Also, my 12.5 year old son Alex gets called ‘Halex’ because again, my daughter called him that and and then his twin James copied it.
James got away lightly - he gets called “Jamesie” by his siblings as a term of endearment.
Also, any fresh fruit juice is called by the children ‘Special Juice’ - because we were careful with it because of their teeth and they didn’t drink squash for the same reason.
I am going to give heined a try. Piers Morgan was on the TV earlier, I’m still feeling heined now.
Perfect example!
Same as TJ, TV remote is a zapper
Nackles - the thing on a deer's head (invented by my wife as a small child)
Pockycoat - an anorak / duffel coat (invented by my B-i-L; same era)
in fact that whole family has a bit of a thing, sometimes deliberate (eg: referring to the town on the Thames as St. Aines) and sometimes not (Haribo are now known as Ha-ree-bo to rhyme / cadence with placebo) despite any number of TV adverts with the right pronunciation.
My eldest is still called p-Tolly after my youngest's attempts to pronounce, and collectively they are herberps from a memorable pronouncement from the youngest as a 2 year old as we were gathering up the paraphenalia that goes with taking kids out to eat, he strode off with a clear as day 'come on, you herberps!' which the rest of the diners seemed to think was sweet.
One of my favourites though is from a friend; on holiday his son (Univ age) started chatting up a young scouse lass and asked her what she did.
'I'm a trainee barrister'
'Interesting, what school are you at'
'What do you mean?'
'Where are you doing your training?'
'Costa Coffee'
Like St. Aines - we sometimes drive through St. Evenage.
Wasn't faffage popularised by D.I. Grimm in The Thin Blue Line?
TV remote control is a confibulator. Living with my 9 year old son means the chance of operating said confibulator is remote.
A dirty toilet bowl is a Hawaii. After the runway on the original Hawaii 5-0 series.
TV remote is doofer
That's what my grandparents always called it.
Like a couple of other posters on this thread, my grandfather was also a radio operator during the war and he could "speak" fluent Morse right up to his dying day. He referred to several everyday household items as DitDits, DitDahs, DahDits or Dahdahs.
We called the remote "buttons" as a kid, still do.
A hangover from my daughter is "Bobby bees" for Bumblebees. Still makes me 🥰
+1 for buttons and my most favorite came about after we took granddaughters to Monkey World and the little on couldn't pronounce Orangutans, they are now forever referred to as Oranumutans!
Moyder, as in talk rubbish
“Stop moydering”
I think it’s a north wales thing
Also, can't say handbag without saying " a haaaaandbaaaag?" from some comedy thing probably in the 80s. Always had the parents laughing and it stuck.
Also, topatoes. As in, topato chips.
all come from my daughter:
Leg-logs. - leggings
knick-knocks - knickers
My daughter calls the cat foofy - her name is Fifi, Incidentally the cat is a C***
smashing - PS4 particularly the game Burnout-Paradise
Confuzzled.
Facipulation is one from work. It's halfway between facilitation and manipulation.
YogPog
Yoghurt obviously.
Flump
A grumpy flounce, as in
'I see the boy has just flumped out of the room again.'
Or
'He's in a flump.'
TV remote is a hoofer.
Mrs stu used to call the cupboard under the stairs "the glory hole"
I drilled a hole in it and everything. Still didn't work. 😂
” a haaaaandbaaaag?”
'tis Lady Bracknell from Oscar Wilde's play "The Importance of Being Ernest".
Very boring, remote is just simply known as "anyone know where the bloody buttons are" ...
Very boring, remote is just simply known as “anyone know where the bloody buttons are” …
You should live a little...start plunking, hoofing and doofing.
A pint of Fresh orange and lemonade is a 'Jimmy Saville'. I genuinely forget that its only me, my brother and my parents call it that and more than once I've sent some confused soul to the bar to get me one when its their round.
Any dish involving a flatbread is a Naan-taco.
Any toff that we can't remember the name of is called Finton
My niece calls sugar 'Lucky Salt'
A thick fluffy dressing gown is a 'Burlio' - named, for reasons lost in the mists of time, after disgraced Italian Premier Burlio Silversconie
Remote is the clacker in ours
A pressing need to go to the loo is 'The Clackers'
Is moydering a variation on mithering?
Was a word where I was brought up in Lancashire but meant pestering (usually by talking rubbish).
I'm going to the funeral next week of an old friend and mentor who coined the work "Eranu' a term he and a fellow mural painter used to described a made-up quality of light in renaissance paintings when they worked together in the 1980s. They'd wave vaguely at paintings in museums and declare - 'oo its got some lovely eranu going on in the back ground there' in the hope it would be overheard and enter the lexicon of art criticism
He shared an anecdote about this with Vic Reeves in a chance encounter back stage at the Birmingham hippodrome sometime in the early 90s