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in keeping with the english language thread

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jenn

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i'm sure that like our house, yours has their own little words that are nonsense but have meaning in your household or amongst your family.
here are some of ours:
buh-sgusting-my four year old's proununciation of disgusting and is now part of our everyday language
poopenschpeil-shit
schmoo-borrowed and shortened from seinfelds schmoopie
chuggs-mom
gunny-granny
chez chez-in reference to your own home ie; why don't you come to dinner chez chez?
we are also huge fans of francofying everything by adding a la and saying the word with a slight french accent.

what are some of yours?
 
I have a four year old niece from whom we (my family) have picked up these terms:
bappi : sleep
pot bhalala : I am full!! Cant eat more!
popa: papa

and many more....
:)
 
tuppinator--person who sits in a chair and warms it up.
to tup --to sit in a chair etc.
tuppy--too warm and cozy


"This chair is too tuppy." "You've tupped up the whole room!"

"He's a little tuppinator." (connotes affection for a little steampot kid)
 
In my family:

1. Ice cream is known as "I give in" (said as one word). This came from my brother and my neverending quest for the stuff as kids, until inevitably they gave in.

2. Procrastination is known as "WASing". I had a primary school teacher who used to talk about WAS - Work Avoidance Strategies - long before I knew the word 'procrastination'. It kind of stuck because my Dad and I are stars at it, and we turned it into an adjective.
 
we have
padookie- elasticized hair band girls use to put their hair up
foshcosh - mixed up word my firstborn used for wash-cloth in the bathtub
noogie- we rub noses together
 
thinny... 9i.e. she is far to thinny!)
it was born out of a mistake of mine, i mixed thin and skinny, so my host mother adopted it and says it all the time!!

can't think of any more right now!
 
I can't think of anything right now, but we use a lot of slang. "I ain't got none" is a common phrase around our house. We use a lot of contractions: it's that's they'll, this'll, etc.
 
I forgot a good one!
dee-doe - word for sleep (this is a corruption of a cajun-french word)
as spoken to a very young child "sweetheart, time to go dee-doe"
 
heh. My cat's name is Shmoo. (It was an old MUD action for "shmoos with cuddles and loves" or something cute of that nature. Uh oh - I'm giving up my geek-status of the late 90's.)

One from my house:
ginormous - non-apostrophed contraction for gigantically enormous
 
Krys, i can't believe you said Shmoo and Ginormous. i use schmoo all the time and only yesterday i noticed the word ginormous in an article and now i know i'm gonna use it.

anyway, my neice used to call my grandma her "great mother" when she was 3 or 4. i dont know how it came about, but that's what she called her.
 
How about "snarg?"

That's what the cat does when she rubs her nose and face against something. The funny thing is, when I married my husband used that word once, he knew EXACTLY what I was talking about!
 
I've heard "snark"

which is the process of laughing and/or sneezing milk, or any liquid out of your nose... :eek:
 
I use ginormous all the time as well.

Our house:

avramisation - arguing a point when on thin ice
booty air - farts, obviously
fanigh and famorn - good night and good morning
morca - America (apparently, that's how I pronounce it)

There are many more! We also have noises and body language.
 
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