Family words

[SetzKitten]

Do you have words you use that only your family would understand? I was talking to my friend and told her I left my husband a fridgigram (that's a note pinned on the refrigerator). She had no clue what I was talking about. Another one from my childhood is "We're having a pick-up for dinner." That means everyone finds their own meal, in other words, mom's not cooking.
I have lots more, but I want to hear some of yours.

 

[kdibattista]

No but... OMG... that's hysterical

I might have to borrow that one!!!!

 

[daisyduck123]

Kind of gross here....

When DD was 2 or 3, DH & I saw her kind of looking at the tip of her finger in a strange way.

We said, "What's that on your finger hon"?

She looked at it, sort of puzzled & said "It's a sniff".

Turns out she had no idea what to call a "booger, snot, etc" so she just made one up.
We've used that ever since.

 

[EdiePA]

When my son was tiny, one of his first words was, "Beeda". We'd say it back to him and he'd laugh and laugh. Then, one day when he was about three, I turned to him and said, "Beeda". He looked me straight in the face and said, "Beeda not nice word." ("not nice word" was how we explained swear words to a toddler)

Here all along he had been swearing at us! So, whenever we feel the need for a swear word, we say, "BEEDA!"


Edie

 

[LiteBrite]

We say "shapoopy" instead of padiddle or popeye or whatever your regional version of this is (it's what you say when you see a car with only one working headlight). This started when we were driving around one night after watching The Music Man. It's gotten my DD in trouble with friends one more than one occasion, who thought she was starting to say an unpleasant word that starts with the same two letters, then trying to quickly change it into something more acceptable!

When I was growing up, my family called a dirty look (like how you'd look at somebody if you were mad at them) a "number one crusty".

 

[LBAK]

For some odd reason my oldest DD, now 19, used to call Entermann's chocolate donuts "pinecones" and it stuck ever since. Friends that don't know the story look at us like we have 3 heads when we ask, "Who wants a pinecone?"

 

[Disney Doll]

"Whozeertoots" When you can't remember a woman's name, you say "Whozeertoots said to go to the store".

If it's a man's name you can't remember, it's "Whoziztoots"

 

[Tinks]

We call the remote control a "giffle" in our house. I'm not even sure how it started, but my kids must really believe that's the correct name for it.

Giffle: remote control device for your television.


Edited to add : We are always looking for the dang giffle, too! I really wish they had a "find giffle" button on the t.v. like the have on the phone!

 

[TheRatPack]

When my children were little they'd call sandwiches 'cbeaps', not sure why but every since then my husband says 'who wants a cbeap?' And they always said they wanted a cereal bowl, instead of bowl of cereal and it still sticks today as well. We actually have quite a few, we're always renaming things and people always look at us like we're crazy and say 'what?" LOL

Our dogs know what 'doodle' means, we've used that one a lot LOL and I don't mean drawing little pictures on a napkin.

 

[pyrxtc]

We say "shapoopy" instead of padiddle or popeye or whatever your regional version of this is (it's what you say when you see a car with only one working headlight). This started when we were driving around one night after watching The Music Man. It's gotten my DD in trouble with friends one more than one occasion, who thought she was starting to say an unpleasant word that starts with the same two letters, then trying to quickly change it into something more acceptable!

When I was growing up, my family called a dirty look (like how you'd look at somebody if you were mad at them) a "number one crusty".

It's a one-eyed jack up here!

 

[CapeCodTenor]

Sorry for the spelling, but my family would say "tookus" for the butt, behind. As in, "Steven, get your tookus over here!" That's when I knew I was in trouble.

 

[minkydog]

My DD Lani has used a lot of strange words. We call them "Lani-isms"and they have crept into the family vernacular. Like the little free samples at the grocery store? "Try-outs". Salmon Patties? "sand daddies". Kielbasa and baked beans? "cowboy food and Daddy beans".

My favorite was the time she told me about the pioneers and how they make fires to cook "BULLCAKES." Bullcakes? "You know, when then cows would poop, they'd burn the bullcakes in the fire"--"cowpies"

 

[Tigger&Belle]

Sorry for the spelling, but my family would say "tookus" for the butt, behind. As in, "Steven, get your tookus over here!" That's when I knew I was in trouble.

I think that's a Yiddish word.

We say meemo control for the remote control since that's what my DD used to say when she was little (at least that's what she still calls it and she's 18yo now).

Instead of exercise we have a play of words on that word since we have a last name that is similar. Obviously I'm not posting that one.

When my nephew was little (he's over 30yo now) he couldn't say confused and said gorfused, which stuck with my DH and me.

We call it scrounging or a free-for-all when we have whatever we can find for dinner.

I'm sure there are others, too.

 

[CapeCodTenor]

I got to thinking after my last post. When I was little, I use to have my own vocabulary. So, instead of a turn signal, it was a dink-a-doonker. And spaghetti became Basghetti.

 

[Cyndirella]

We have lots of funny words that we got from the kids when they were younger. "Baking suit" for bathing suit and "Pissgetti" for spaghetti are my favorites.

 

[Annette_VA]

... Another one from my childhood is "We're having a pick-up for dinner." ....

That's a Fend For Yourself Night here.

 

[Pooh_Friend#1]

My family calls macaroni "onies". It drives my SO insane!!!!!

When we eat leftovers, we call it a "buffet night". Here in CO we call the one headlight out, "padiddles".

 

[DaisyD]

When my son was tiny, one of his first words was, "Beeda". We'd say it back to him and he'd laugh and laugh. Then, one day when he was about three, I turned to him and said, "Beeda". He looked me straight in the face and said, "Beeda not nice word." ("not nice word" was how we explained swear words to a toddler)

Here all along he had been swearing at us! So, whenever we feel the need for a swear word, we say, "BEEDA!"


Edie

ROFLMAO! That is too funny!

 

[DaisyD]

We say "shapoopy" instead of padiddle or popeye or whatever your regional version of this is (it's what you say when you see a car with only one working headlight). This started when we were driving around one night after watching The Music Man. It's gotten my DD in trouble with friends one more than one occasion, who thought she was starting to say an unpleasant word that starts with the same two letters, then trying to quickly change it into something more acceptable!

When I was growing up, my family called a dirty look (like how you'd look at somebody if you were mad at them) a "number one crusty".

There are actually terms for cars with one headlight out? We must be in a boring area! LOL!

 

[sleepyone]

My oldest dd combined booty and bottom to create bootum. It stuck and now my other dd calls her bottom "bootum" too. At least if we're in public no one knows what a bootum is. As in, "I can see her bootum" (sticking out of her low-muffin-top-type-pants).

One that stuck for only a little while was "lollipickle". My oldest dd (3 at the time) was excited when the bank teller gave her a "popcicle"...which I corrected as lollipop. DD said, "Thanks for the lollipickle".