What do you call this in your neck of the woods? Pacifier, dummy, binky???

[Claire L]

I am guessing dummy is a UK word and not commonly used elsewhere.

Claire

 

[TeresaNJ]

It was a "patsy" in our house.

 

[My2Cinderellas]

Neither girl used them - a pacifier in our house was called a thumb!

But the general terms my friends used were paci, Nuk (brand name), and binky.

 

[Michelle67]

BTW, I found out the hard way that "binky" had a WHOLE 'nother meaning in my boyfriend's home when I was in highschool. As in "peepee."

 

[luvmylittleboy2003]

I voted other - we always called it a 'fooler'

 

[Goofyluver]

We call it a chubon...spanish for "paci"

 

[Towncrier]

We always called it a nook (rhymes with "book") because it was a Nuk brand pacifier. DD Sarah could do tricks with her nook. We would purposely put it in her mouth upside down and watch her spin it back the right way. You get your amusement where you can, I suppose.

 

[staley7580]

We always called it a nook (rhymes with "book") because it was a Nuk brand pacifier. DD Sarah could do tricks with her nook. We would purposely put it in her mouth upside down and watch her spin it back the right way. You get your amusement where you can, I suppose.

We used to do that too!

 

[Meriweather]

What we actually called it was a plug

But also binky and pacifier.

 

[tmarquez]

For me it was a pacifier.

I married a Cuban and also had a Cuban babysitter for DD and so to her it's a "tete" the e sounds like the e in egg.

 

[raysnkaysmom]

I've heard binky...but PACI should totally be on that list
Its his paci Neither of my other 2 took one...

 

[mamacatnv]

My DS dubbed it the BahBah and the name stuck.

My BFF's toddler named it "baby" he walks around the house.....baby, baby, baby...........when he gets mad, he chucks it and then screams BABY because he can't find it.

 

[Melrosgirl]

Binky - which I think is/was a brand name for pacifier at one time
Nuk - (pronounced nook) - a brand name

 

[imabrat]

I call it a Binky.

 

[suzimar57]

pacifier - when DS was a baby (22 years ago...) he hated it - instead, he'd keep a small blue terry cloth "duck" in his mouth (tail end!) and this "duck" was called "Beaky" - (oh - and DS called it a "chicken")

whenever my sister wanted to have a picture taken of DS, she'd say "get that chicken's a** out of his mouth!"

 

[dhcoffey]

paci here.

 

[Maggimus]

bee bee - not sure how to spell it but pronounced like Mimi but with B's

 

[GoingBald]

A noo-noo or noonie

 

[TwinsinCA]

No clue how it's spelled but we say cho-nee - Some italian dialect term for a pacifier

I grew up calling it chucho (the Italian word for it my parents used).

For my own kids that never stuck. We started calling it a pacifier but that was too long. MIL called it a binky so we started to use that. Then once the kids started to talk it morphed into something like "binkla". So that is what we called it for a while too.

I put other.

 

[maiziezoe]

We call it a "D" (dee). I don't know why. LOL