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In the later stages of her dementia my mum has begun referring to seagulls as 'Doodle****s'
My wife is called Mim. Christened Maureen but a nephew shortened it when he was very young and first learning to speak. It has stuck with her ever since and I wouldn't introduce her as anything else. Still confuses folk we don't know too well.
A pressing need to go to the loo is ‘The Clackers’
Round our way some people call a crapper "The Clacker"
Also thunder box for on site/ portaloo/ festival shitter.
If we’re watching a tv programme from the Sky planner or one we’ve paused Mrs Scape always shouts “whizz on!” To fast forward through the adverts. A legacy of the video cassette era, the kids took ages to understand what the hell she was on about.
We used to go on holiday with another family. During the World Cup the dad treated himself to a pair of patriotic camping chairs in England colours. I took the piss and referred to them as “Paul’s Cod Chairs” and it stuck. When she was eight my daughter managed to bamboozle the assistant in Woolworths by asking for one of the pink cod chairs on the top shelf of the display.
on site/ portaloo/ festival shitter.
Something my cockney gran referred to as a 'Chemi Khazi'
The one that sticks in my mind from my family is "chimbles" they're like crumbs of food, only slightly larger than that and usually of a non-dry food. So while a crumbly cracker will produce crumbs, a crumbly cheese will produce chimbles.
"Chiglet"
Chocolate with a very low percentage of cocoa solids
Not so much made up, but all baby animals are referred to as puppies in our house...
Lambs - sheep puppies
Calves - cow puppies
Kittens - cat puppies
etc.
Cow juice ..milk
Gusting..for disgusting ..just sounds better..
That's "agusty" in our house
Dake = steak
Boons = beans
Muter = sound bar remote
Spids = ciders
Fud = cat food
The one that sticks in my mind from my family is “chimbles” they’re like crumbs of food, only slightly larger than that and usually of a non-dry food.
our jack russells dry food, the little biscuits, are called 'grimbles' courtesy of my mum and dad. "ooh look, hes dropped some grimbles on the floor"
they also brought the word 'chug' into our lives for the dog having a shit, "ooooh look, colins having a little chug" 😀
also in our home now are words courtesy of a lad at work who speaks as though hes still talking to his grandkids..
bananas - nin-nans
apples - ap-aps
yoghurts - yig-yogs
biscuits - bik-boks
see also -
pyjamas - jim-jams
socks and underpants - socks and shreds
teeth - peggies (see also peggy-paste and peggy-brush)
its like listening in at a kindergarten in our house these days, much to the pleasure of my wife 😀
"Diggers underwater". It's what my son calls u tube kids. He likes looking at digger videos and the first one that comes up is one that's underwater.
Leaves others wondering.
Also a lot of alliteration, so bathbath, bikebike, yumyums etc. All from getting babies to learn words better..
My BiL is Bob. This causes utter confusion sometimes seeing as though his name is Ryan. My wife started calling him Bob about fifteen years ago for no particular reason and it just stuck. Bobble, Bobby and Bobeth also work.
Remembered a few more.
‘MiteMite’ was and still is my daughters term for Marmite.
’Gustin’ obviously means disgusting, that again my daughter uses still.
‘He’s in a flump.’
I’ll never look at Pootle the same again!
One I got from my Dad, but have rarely used recently is referring to something that’s too
hot to hold as heavy.
Following Dad’s pronunciation of tooth as “tuth”, I’ve picked up the same and now my daughter does too
if you want proper words from dialect, mt Dad's from Sussex and 'scasing' is an old word for 'in case'
"It's looking a bit cloudy, I'll take an umbrella scasing"
Tomartyr, someone who takes the smaller portion.
Calan, man made shallow waterway.
on site/ portaloo/ festival shitter.
Aka - “Turdis” (especially apt for blue ones!)
Snarly - usually an insect that bites.
In our house, the plural of toothbrush has become teethbri.
Niggly-nagglers = indicators
Glonksies = cornflakes
Castle bus = tricycle
Wishywashyween.
Washing machine of course!
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Moozer – the source of any mysterious itch. An as yet unidentified species of tiny insect which exists only to irritate people.
That'll be a Greebly. Any unidentified insect that is somewhere it shouldn't be.
Anthony Perkin's stunt double - An annoying drunk.
Tweric - A bee. A full one, obviously. From 'Two Erics'.
Katy Cornered - Something that should be at 90 or 180 degrees to something else, but isn't.
Sausage - a pleasant, harmless individual.
An Upper Silesian Nose Flute - an exceptionally strong spliff.
Some of these are great but "doodle****" is just genius! I shall start using it.
Baby lambs. they're just lambs..
Remote control is the doofer (short for doofer thingamy whatsit)
all snails are called brian. especially if we've accidentially stood on them.
erm, all spiders in our house are called Harry. can't think where that came from.....
Normalitea - Anything which is proper Tea
Specialitea - Anything which pretends to be tea but isn't
Whojamaflip - Anything I can't remember the word for.
Florn Cakes - Corn Flakes
Shart - Fart that has gone wrong
Snarkle - A really big hard bogey that, once picked, means you can breathe much easier.
Snarkle – A really big hard bogey that, once picked, means you can breathe much easier.
On that feels like your eyeball is attached to the other end when you pull it out?
I've remembered another from our house...
Twazzlers - The spinning arms in a dishwasher.
Spooble - When one is feeling restless and a bit over-active/twitchy, but doesn't know what to do with the excess energy. Spoobling or spoobling about.
It was actually invented by my wife in reference to the cats, but has stuck through 3 kids....
When my lad was three he christened his little sister, then aged one, Mrs Chimbong.
For the next five or so years the kids were The Chimbongs. Now they are older he calls he anything from "Doris Whinge-Bag" to "A Dick". The latter costs him £1 off his pocket money.
My BiL is Bob. This causes utter confusion sometimes seeing as though his name is Ryan. My wife started calling him Bob about fifteen years ago for no particular reason
When I was in Air Cadets there was a girl in another Squadron who looked a bit like Dave Gilmour so she was nicknamed Dave. It stuck to the extent that, even after knowing her for several years, I never found out her real name. She is now a relatively senior Nvvy officer and I am told that she is still called Dave!
We've adopted some of the kids mispronuctiations.
Kimbumber - cucumber
Kanky - monkey
CadoCado - Avocado
Off the back the highly annoying amazeballs, we suffixed "-balls" onto the end of quite a few words. All fine and good at home but less so when your kid refers to "Granda-balls" and "Daddy-balls" at school!
‘Chobble’ - what you do with biscuits (because biscuits make even the worse things more betterer*)
*Excepting the die-beetus.
puggled
the look of someone that has just woken up / been woken up. Even better if their face is creased from lying on it (usually with arse in the air, as that's how babies and toddlers sleep)
puggled
We've been using that one for centuries...
https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle-2-15039/scots-word-of-the-day-puggle-1-2738487
Mayonnaise is "Egg Sauce"
Wabbit - the feeling of being washed out and tired - not actually properly ill but just a bit wabbit
Malaria is also used in our family for hangover as in " not feeling to good today - got a touch of malaria". sometimes also a hangover is " a touch of the old trouble"
Jumpolining - our middle child would say this instead of trampolining!
bubby = bread
Hey, we had that! My dad called bread "bubbies". I still do. Perhaps from bread baps/women's breasts.
Also:
Derbedees - Strawberries, from my sister's toddlerhood.
Amoons = animals, from my wife's sister.
Squirrets = squirrels, from my father in law who wrote an essay about squirrels when at school, crossing the l every time he wrote the word.
nooniac = a crazy kid. My brother's word for his more energetic playmates.
Ooh yes, and:
Gwook - any kid's haircut that makes gives the impression that the back of his head extends backwards about a foot. Quite common in the 1970s. Can now also mean any sticking out bit of hair but a true gwook is a thing of joy.
The TV remote must be an object with the most pet names ever. In my house it's the gadget.
I've got "tretch" meaning slutch (which Google tells me is another Lancashire expression, I always thought it was a common word) - loose soggy soil oft found on rainy MTB trails. From an exchange one day, "careful, it's a bit treacherous underfoot," "yeah I know, I'm up to my ankles in tretch."
To wander about without a particular destination in mind is to meamble, a smush of meander and amble, can't remember how that came about.
Not a word as such, but "putting it somewhere safe" is a euphemism for somewhere so incredibly safe that you'll never see it again. "Where are your keys?" - "god knows, I've probably put them somewhere safe" - "great, I'll go check in the fridge."
Screwing with language has been popular in IT / hackish circles for decades. The -age suffix (faffage mentioned earlier) is common, along with inappropriate / faux-intellectual pluralisation and other random bastardisation. Eg, the plural of "box" is "boxen" (because of ox / oxen).
Is moydering a variation on mithering?
Was a word where I was brought up in Lancashire but meant pestering (usually by talking rubbish).
Same, it's something my gran would say. Pestering, whining, generally attention-seeking.
I’ve got “tretch” meaning slutch (which Google tells me is another Lancashire expression, I always thought it was a common word) – loose soggy soil oft found on rainy MTB trails.
Glabber. That's Glabber
Ken sauce = ketchup
Ingy = Isobel (via Ingabel)
Both products of no. 2 spawn when she was a toddler.
Malaria is also used in our family for hangover as in ” not feeling to good today – got a touch of malaria”. sometimes also a hangover is ” a touch of the old trouble”
haha, just reminded me of another, where at a family gathering a large amount of red wine went missing in the direction of my dad. The next day he was under the weather, having been up several times in the night apparently.
The cause?
"I think some of the cheese must have been off"
So now a hangover in my family is always the fault of "bad cheese."
Doofer = pound coin
Brup = cat
Flat egg = fried egg
Cracky egg = boiled egg
Squashed egg = Scotch egg
Sugar Puffs = the Aldi version of whatever they are calling them now
Huggle = normally a bedtime cuddle
Carry cuddle = thank god we don’t have to do those any more
Jiggy / Get Jiggy = when the dog gets amorous with a blanket/cushion, but can refer to any version of “the deed”
being wrapped up warm and cozy is to be 'cuggy' comfy pyjamas, joggers etc are 'cuggies'
no idea where it came from
I’ve got “tretch” meaning slutch (which Google tells me is another Lancashire expression, I always thought it was a common word) – loose soggy soil oft found on rainy MTB trails.
Slutch, as described, is definitely a word from my Lancashire childhood.
Not exactly a made-up word, but Rich Tea biscuits are now called "tasteless biscuits" after my six-year-old lad asked for one without knowing the real name.
Peanut Butbut = peanut butter
Sausage = no1 child
Squidgelord/Pickle = no2 child
I've started playing badminton - I play with Cuttleshocks.
Our Spaniel "christened" Monty is always called "chops"