Family words

[mickeyfan2]

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!

We call it a clicker.

 

[mickeyfan2]

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 was always told that tookus was the Yiddish word for butt.

 

[Stitchfans]

The only things we say that I can think of off hand is a clicka for the remote control, healthy for a fat person, and biff for passing gas.

 

[swanmom]

That's a Fend For Yourself Night here.

In our house, it's "Fixur Own" Night!

 

[mickeyfan2]

Some that are from neices and nephews.

Puffy - passing gas
Library Lady - Librarian
Wagon Station - Station Wagon
Pissgetti - spaghetti

And there are a few for a Truck that can't be spoken here!!!

 

[mickeyfan2]

That's a Fend For Yourself Night here.

In our home it is (me to DH) "Honey what's for dinner?" And he knows to go right into the kitchen and cook!!!

 

[binny]

That's a Fend For Yourself Night here.

Its YOYO night here.

As in, Youre On Your Own... YOYO.




Lets see we have Weeb Weeb for Safeway, Ding Dings for Hastings, and various other names for stores.



my dad used to call me Snickelfritz when I was little and we moved around so much that we often combined regional sayings so that even if they made sense in the region we were in at that particular time, they got mixed with something else so only our family had ANY idea what things were LOL.

 

[CathrynRose]

My fiance and I have one - Jay Leno.

As in "We watching Jay Leno, tonight?" **wink-wink**

Then one time my son asked - you like Jay Leno?? I love Jay Leno!!! And my fiance answered "Soooooo dooooo I!!!!"

 

[Tigger&Belle]

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

I was thinking the same thing but was afraid to admit it!

 

[CathrynRose]

That's a Fend For Yourself Night here.

Us too - "Fend for Yourself"

 

[MrsKreamer]

My family is Sicilian and my great grandparents were both first generation, so a lot of our family words are Sicilian-American slang or words that they said with thick accent that came to a whole other word.

Baccosa -Bathroom...think Backhouse(out house) said in an Italian accent. This was just explained to me, all along I thought that was the real "Sicilian" word for bathroom....

Tompanotta - word for an easy girl...not sure how this one came about.

pizan - good friend, this is a real Italian word, but I probably spelled it wrong.

bouna bouna - to describe food that is really yummy

batsa - dumb

I think there is more, but I can't remember them right now!

 

[LiteBrite]

That's a Fend For Yourself Night here.

It's Every Man for Himself Night at our house, which is pretty ironic, considering hubby's the only male in the house (even the dogs are girls!)

 

[LiteBrite]

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

Not only terms, but a ritual, too - hubby grew up with "popeye" in Kansas, and I had "padiddle" as a young person in Florida, but for both of us, when you saw a car with one headlight out, you were supposed to say the word, kiss your hand, and hit the ceiling of the car for luck. I knew somebody else who grew up with a different ritual - I can't remember if it was for seeing one headlight out or for something else, but everybody in the car was supposed to stick one hand and one foot out of the window whenever they saw whatever it was, including the driver!

 

[Evil Genius]

DH will tell me to give him some eggs and cheese before he leaves. Eggs and cheese make a quiche or in our world a kiss.

 

[DaisyD]

Not only terms, but a ritual, too - hubby grew up with "popeye" in Kansas, and I had "padiddle" as a young person in Florida, but for both of us, when you saw a car with one headlight out, you were supposed to say the word, kiss your hand, and hit the ceiling of the car for luck. I knew somebody else who grew up with a different ritual - I can't remember if it was for seeing one headlight out or for something else, but everybody in the car was supposed to stick one hand and one foot out of the window whenever they saw whatever it was, including the driver!

My now 23 y/o DD used to do that thing with kissing your hand and hitting the ceiling every time you went through a yellow traffic light. That was a big thing with the kids in our area a few years ago. Still never heard of anything for a one eyed car. Perhaps I'll make one up and start a new trend!

 

[KristinU]

We have a ton of 'em at our house...the ones that come to mind after reading this thread:

Leftover night: Encore Evening

Remote Control: Kren-cheech (no clue on the spelling here - my DH's family is of Polish descent and this was their word - it has to do with a derivative of the Polish word meaning "to turn" as in turn the channel)

To Lie Down: Dumple Up (this comes from our dog looking like a big dumpling when she is all curled up and somehow just morphed into using it as a command for her to lie down, or for us too - like when you don't feel good you just want to "dumple up" on the couch!)

 

[minkydog]

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

We call that "Chinese dinner." One time I used the term in front of a neighbor's child and she said "I love Chinese food!" Uh, sorry kid. No Chinese. I got your pinto beans, your oatmeal, one piece of cheese, leftover meatloaf and a couple apples--take your pick.

 

[LiteBrite]

We call that "Chinese dinner." One time I used the term in front of a neighbor's child and she said "I love Chinese food!" Uh, sorry kid. No Chinese. I got your pinto beans, your oatmeal, one piece of cheese, leftover meatloaf and a couple apples--take your pick.

 

[sleepyone]

We call that "Chinese dinner." One time I used the term in front of a neighbor's child and she said "I love Chinese food!" Uh, sorry kid. No Chinese. I got your pinto beans, your oatmeal, one piece of cheese, leftover meatloaf and a couple apples--take your pick.

The neighbors' child probably told his/her parents that "they think oatmeal and pinto beans are Chinese food".

 

[nkjzmom]

The first one that comes to mind is when we ask someone to turn up the volume on the TV we say "Can you louder it?". Weird.

Something else we do that has just become habit is whenever someone in the car asks "Where are we going?", we always answer "Crazy!" We actually had one child's friend state "I've never heard of that place. What do they have there?"