weird names for things

[lunarlather]

Mostly I have weird names for my cats, like I call my cat Langston "Bookie" or "Boo Boo Bear" but I have no idea why! The cats' food is "kibbies".

I have a comforter that is going on 21 years old that I absolutely adore and take with me whenever I am sleeping somewhere else. I call it my "wubbie", thanks to Mr. Mom.

[CraftinFool]

Great thread!

A lot of my strange words come from interactions with my nephews too!Like, we call bedtime "Time for nuns!", which morphed from nuh-night.

Also, instead of adding "y"s like was posted earlier, my husband and I add "s"s to words - like, instead of yummy and chilly, it's yumsy and chillsy.

And a coworker at the company where my husband and I met had once typed "craxy" instead of "crazy", so now we call things "craxy". If you ask me, the word craxy sounds crazier than the word crazy.

And my mom and I were watching a skating competition on tv when I was younger and she asked what a jump was and I claimed it was a Triple Back Flinkey. Ever since then, if we don't know what something is called we call it a "flinkey."

[lrschic]

If I'm around, my grandpa will refer to the telephone as his grandbaby's weapon of choice. *Explanation: His nickname for me is 'quickdraw' because he says I answer before it even rings on his end. Let's just say I used to have preteen friendship priorities and was always by the phone. It's stuck ever since.
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[sparkle_j]

The morphing of "remote control:"
Remote Control... 'mote control... 'mo' control... moke-troll... mocha troll... and now it's just "mocha." Hey, pass me the mocha, I need to change the station.

I don't consume dairy stuff, so most of our "milks" are soy based. Hence: s'milk. Then we just started sticking the letter S or M or N onto everything. Hey, once you start adding letters, you just can't stop. Soy sausage is snausage (and yeah, I know there's a dog treat of the same name). Darn, I can't think of any of the others, but I'm sure I will once I get off the computer.

The cats were given names: Phoebe and Crookshanks (yeah, I know). Phoebe is usually "The Phoebster" or sometimes, when she's being especially precious, "The Kingdom of Phoebes." Crookshanks is usually "The Shankster" or "Shankster Prankster" or just "The Prankster."

Oooh, I forgot... I also elongate most vowels. It started when I got annoyed one day while reading stuff online (some message board or another, or maybe someone's online journal)... "I loooooooooooooved it!" They said. Or "I hated it sooooooooooooooo much." I started pronouncing all the O's. Imagine love, but with a long O. Loove! It just kinda stuck. I don't talk like this with most people, though... just a select few.

[xuli]

Hee hee. There are so many different names for remote controls! Who woulda thunk it? In my family we call it the limok.

[revafisheye]

Oh the giggles I'm getting from this thread...you gals are funny.

There are a couple of childhood hangovers that my family still uses:
afoos = shampoo (that was mine when I couldn't say shampoo)
real-dicilous = ridiculous (my brother's)

My brother and I also pronounce the word "rendezvous" phonetically: rehn-DEZ-vuz (with the accent on dez). When he was in freshman and I was a senior, he wrote a short story for English class and I read it out loud to help him with it. When I came to the word "rendevous," I pronounced it correctly, the Frahnch way (another word I purposely mispronounce, thanks to John Cusak's mom in Better Off Dead!).

He stopped me and said, "Wait, go back. You said 'rendezvous'." And I said, "You wrote 'rendezvous.'" And he said, "Oh...I wanted to write 'rendezvous,' but I didn't know how to spell it, so I wrote 'rehn-DEZ-vous' because I knew they meant the same thing."

That story still makes me laugh until I pee a little.
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[cynlynn]

the mr. makes such fun of me for calling my vagina my hooey. and it is real funny, but all the other words just sound like something needing a good bath:)
i call my '84 mercury marquis leon.
sometimes i call the mr. fat head-he likes it- no clue why. if we're arguing i'll call him a fat head and he starts laughing and can't stop.

[Miss M]

my mom calls my son "Smudge" or "Smudgie" because on the first ultrasound pic, the dr said "see that smudge, that's your baby" and then actually typed "SMUDGE" on the picture & gave it to us. It was my parents first picture of their grandchild & the name stuck.
As a kid, my mom would ask "do you need to go stinkers?" in a very quiet voice (instead of saying poop). my bro & I laughed for days when we finally recalled that memory! We still lean over to each other at boring family-type events & quietly ask "do you need....?" Trust me, it's funny.
Also, as a child my sister said "Toonex" instead of "Kleenex" and for a long time, I didn't know what Kleenex was

This thread is FUNNY! :)

[viggie]

lately i have noticed that i call my son "dude" a lot which i think anoys my mother more than anything but it works for us ;)

i say "chanclas" for flipflops or sandals a lot. i also say "chingadera" for "thingy" most of the time.

fun thread!

[Mathias]

My mother always referred to the "cookie" as the "missy." When I was five years old I remember being incredibly confused when my grandparents named their new pup Missy. I asked my mother in a whisper, "Why did they name their dog after private parts?"

Also, we call marshmallows "snacks" because that's what I refered to them as when I was little...dunno why.

We also call pony tail holders "curlies." My sisters and I started calling those pony tail holders with plastic beads on either end "curlies" and that term just stuck for any kind of stretchy thing you use to pull your hair back with.

[mishapville]

I call bananas 'nanners' because I feel like it. I like bananas a lot so I think they deserve a nickname. People assume it's a southern thing but it's not - I made it up.

[liz156]

When I grew up the remote was the clicker. Now its just the remote.

My mom calls me Ma'am all the time. I have no idea how this started, but for as long as I can remember thats what its been.

My brother and I call each other Feeb. As in short for feeble. Its funny.

My dog Winston is 'pup'. He's 2 years old and its stuck from when he was really little. My cat Hero was 'fatcat', cause ... well he was really fat.

I know there are more goofy family things, but my mind has gone blank.

[empressCrash]

We call the remote the binky (as in pacifier).
Our family calls all Xmas tree toppers - germs because when I was a kid we had one of those spiky glass tree toppers and my mom thought it looked just like a certain germ under a microscope.
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[glassprincess]

DH got me started on refering to my ears as *earballs* and he still can't tell me why.

I always called the crap in the corner of your eyes when you wake-up *eye boogers* - DH calls them *sleepy seeds*.

I call both my dogs *boober* to show them affection.

I say *twink* instead of peepee.

I can't think of anything else at the moment... I know we use to have weird names for things when growing up - they haven't stuck around though.

[loudxmouse]

haha! this is an awesome thread.

mky family calls alot of things weird things because of my sister. we call the toilet the "co-co-lee pot" and the washing machine the "wash-a-ma-cleaner"

i call my cat "lil doo doo"

my dad calls me "mimi-kenz" because when i was little i couldn't say "meghan mackenzie"

my favorite non-word is "flump" i say "i feel flumpy" or "i'm gunna flump you in the face" good word! my ex made it up.
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