49 Times Genius Kids Came Up With Their Own Words For Common Items, And It Was Spot On
One moment a child might cry because a microwave ate his lunch, the next they're spitting out words so beautiful, not even a poet could make them up. A couple of days ago, Tessa Dare was chilling at Newport Beach with her friend Jill Baetiong and her two daughters, Mia and Bridget. It was then when the 5-year-old Mia described the crow as a "Halloween eagle."
"And a child shall lead us. It is known," Tessa tweeted, sharing the term. "This is the new name for the bird-formally-known-as-crow. You know what to do, Merriam Webster." Admiring the creativity, parents turned to Twitter with their own. Thus, we now know that rhino could just as well be called a battle unicorn. Or ravioli should be sold as pasta pockets instead.
Tessa was already aware of this ability that a lot of children have. "I have two kids of my own, a 14-year-old daughter and an 11-year-old son," she told Bored Panda. "Some objects they renamed when they were younger were "Santa-tizer" for hand sanitizer and "pupcakes". My son was in 2nd grade before he figured out they were actually "cupcakes” — I forbade anyone in the family from correcting him because it was too cute."
"Children learn language by drawing connections and filling in blanks, so I think it’s natural for them to invent descriptions and comparisons that we adults never see," the woman added. "As a professional writer, I wish I could recapture the inventiveness of language that Mia and other children have!"
From the thread (which was amazing and continues to grow), Tessa's favorites were the other renamed animals. "Battle unicorns" (rhinos) and "Flamingo Witches" (vultures). Oh, and bed-skins instead of sheets. "That's so spot-on, it's a bit unsettling!"
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Sadly these "Battle Unicorns" are fighting a lost battle against human cruelty.
Hopefully they don't become a myth. This needs awareness.
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"Rhinoceros Unicornis" is a scientific classification for a type of rhinoceros :D
The "Rhinoceros Unicornis" (one-horned) is a scientific classification of a type of rhino :D
Oh my goodness...so many to choose from! My friend's 5 yr. old is a plethora of better-renamed things. In the space of an hour she forever changed my vocabulary. She greeted me one day saying, "I'm not wearing any pants!" Which shocked me mildly, but she quickly informed me that she was wearing "short sleeved pants"...or shorts. Not 5 minutes after this, bright-eyed & excited, she told me that their van was clean now, because "Mommy took it through the wish-washer tunnel." Yup. I can never be the same person again.
I'd like to add one. My previous 6 yo sister riding on my shoulders (she had her good shoes on) as we made our way across a puddlely parking lot suddenly whelped and wanted down. I got her on the ground and she bent down to caress a colorful oil slick in a small puddle with a stick. She said Randy it's a dead rainbow and it's so sad! Heck I teared up as I picked her up and hugged her. My heart was filled with overwhelming love and compassion for this little empath. I assured her there were hundreds of other live rainbows, that there were ALWAYS going to be rainbows ... and not to be sad. And after we'd finished at the store and were driving home the storm lifted and a brilliant rainbow filled the eastern sky. "I told you sweetheart"
Actually, the child is correct. The single horn rhino is the real unicorn. Over time it was changed to a horse, it was more beautiful that way.
god knows children would do much better than that "boaty mcboatface" twattle
Had the child by any chance seen The Black Panther recently? At least one character rides one decorated as if for a tournament into battle. I could see that as looking like a battle unicorn.
That seems much more believable as something a kid would say.
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Sorry, but it seems exceedingly unlikely that a 5-year-old actually thought of this. In fact, what 5-year-old hasn't seen/heard of a rhinoceros?
No they didn’t. That’s a common nickname on the internet for rhinos.
a quick google search says you're wrong or lying.
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Not bad, actually if you think about it, its pretty accurate.
Much better then being called BUSH. Imagine a family conversation - "John - Go clean your bush, its looking gross"
My son invented a similar one, yesternight. He said if there was a yesterday there should be a yesternight.
My 7-yr old Niece once called our neighborhood cemetery - "Obstacle course for the running souls". I shivered at the thought.
My son age 2 didn't know the word 'tangerines' so he asked me for some banana-balls (they were in a bowl with the bananas)
My 3 year old daughter calls bagels donut toast. I put her in marketing pre-school.
my son calls them growney beans if me and my wife are eating them and kidney beans if he's eating them...
My niece said "grandma, the computer iced" when it froze playing a game.
I work with a woman who kept complaining her feet were hurting because she had 'shoe bites'. When asked what she meant by 'shoe bites' it turned out she was referring to blisters on her heels.
My grandson was standing at top of a construction site, and he stated he was " at the edge of below"
My daughter once referred to her teeth as "mouth nails." She also recently told me that mammograms are like Instagram for boobs. And my little weirdo of a son used to call private parts "the best parts."
My niece called tomorrow nexterday. When I was a kid I called lobsters mobsters and referred to a foggy day as a froggy day.
My autistic brother refers to telephones as “hello,” when he wants to play with my phone he’ll point to it and say “hello, hello” until I give it to him.
I used to call the Decathlon "sport museum" when I was little because I always forgot the name. My whole family still calls it like that
They call the Science & History Museum in Dublin, THE DEAD ZOO.
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I remember that when I was a toddler (2-3 years old) I loved cars (mostly because of the movie Cars which to this day still remains one of my all time favorites) and my father taught me symbols of all the cars we saw in the streets and everytime a Mercedes-Benz came up I would say... Taxi. 😆
My daughter thought Breakfast was called Breadfast because we always had to hurry after breakfast
As a young child I called pop corn 'poc porn'. No comment on that.
my 3 year old son calls gnocchi 'pasta bees'. I think that is the cutest thing ever, I am never calling them anything else.
I used to go to this restaurant with my dad about once a week. I would always order a burger that was about the size of my head but he would help me finish it. I never knew the name of the place so whenever I wanted to eat I would ask if we could go to “The Burger.” At one point I forgot that it wasn’t the company’s name and got confused when I was corrected by my mom.
My daughter used to describe a sour/upset stomach as having a -bull in her tummy- . Kids have a fantastic way of expressing themselves!
My son loved chicken wings but never remembered the right name so he called them “chicken flys”
My son used to call clowns "Snow Plows" ( meaning snow men, which he has never experienced because we live in the desert... )
My three-year-old daughter would always drop the K in 'skunk' and referred to them as 'Stunks'. Pretty accurate.
My little sister renamed our brother who's name is Ashton but when she says it, it sounds like A**hole, and when she says Fork it's F*ck
When my sister was little, she called pirogies “pogies” and when my daughter was little, she called them “parmagegoes”
My little boy used to ask for the 'hairbrella' in the rain, because it kept his hair dry.
My nephew who was 4 at the time, told me that his favorite color is Rainbow.
My son's have always called my omlets 'Momlets'. Everyone else's are omlets but mine are momlets!
My Four year old loves emergency vehicles such as the police car that park at the police station, the fire truck that parks at the fire station and the ambulance that parks at the ...ambulance station.
not renaming but when my son got tired of waiting to do something he was told we would do later he would say "it's way past sooner"
My son, then 5, and I were sitting at the entrance to our apartment complex when he started yelling "Bad Boys, mom! Bad Boys!" I'm like "what are you.." then I saw the cop car go by. "Oh!" What do you sing? "Bad boys, bad boys, watcha gonna do? Watcha gonna do when they come for you?" We were singing all the way to the store.
He would also say "I'm busy, I'm busy!" every time we spun him around in our office chair. And it was never foggy outside..it was froggy outside.
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My granddaughter calls McDonald's hotdonalds. Donuts are dunholes. Her knee is her leg elbow.
I love the 2-4 ages, they're so human and fresh and lovely and have such a great humor!
My mom made a lot of my dresses before I turned 5. She would have me try them on before she was finished to check "the fit." One was too tight in the arms and I cried because it was "too fits" (too small.) 40 years later and she still asks "how fits" items are I try on.
Working in a primary school, you hear lots of these. Like the six year old who called a poodle a "lamb dog".
My dad tells me that when I was 4 or so, I referred to a steam shovel or bulldozer as a "dirt do". He thought that was perfect.
We saw a field which had a massive flock of sea gulls and crows on it. My small daughter at the time called them mud peckers.
My little genius showed me how to "biggify' stuff on the screen...
My kid was playing on the wii earlier the basketball mii game and he wohooo I did a slap duck I think he meant slam dunk
My favorite was the "How Do Stick" - i begged my parents for one but they couldnt work out what it was
My 3 yr old son says hot doctor when trying to say helicopter. Lol he's trying :) I think its adorable
A little girl I used to babysit told me she ate "Messy Jims" for lunch...sloppy joes haha
Interesting how the lower you seem to go on this list, the more believable it is that a child actually made them up...
My nephew, when he was 3 or 4, saw that my sister had a tiny decoration of a mini violin hanging on her wall, and our parents had at the time a Bichon Frise named Matisse. So he says: 'That's Matisse's M'tar!'
My son age 2 didn't know the word 'tangerines' so he asked me for some banana-balls (they were in a bowl with the bananas)
My 3 year old daughter calls bagels donut toast. I put her in marketing pre-school.
my son calls them growney beans if me and my wife are eating them and kidney beans if he's eating them...
My niece said "grandma, the computer iced" when it froze playing a game.
I work with a woman who kept complaining her feet were hurting because she had 'shoe bites'. When asked what she meant by 'shoe bites' it turned out she was referring to blisters on her heels.
My grandson was standing at top of a construction site, and he stated he was " at the edge of below"
My daughter once referred to her teeth as "mouth nails." She also recently told me that mammograms are like Instagram for boobs. And my little weirdo of a son used to call private parts "the best parts."
My niece called tomorrow nexterday. When I was a kid I called lobsters mobsters and referred to a foggy day as a froggy day.
My autistic brother refers to telephones as “hello,” when he wants to play with my phone he’ll point to it and say “hello, hello” until I give it to him.
I used to call the Decathlon "sport museum" when I was little because I always forgot the name. My whole family still calls it like that
They call the Science & History Museum in Dublin, THE DEAD ZOO.
Load More Replies... I remember that when I was a toddler (2-3 years old) I loved cars (mostly because of the movie Cars which to this day still remains one of my all time favorites) and my father taught me symbols of all the cars we saw in the streets and everytime a Mercedes-Benz came up I would say... Taxi. 😆
My daughter thought Breakfast was called Breadfast because we always had to hurry after breakfast
As a young child I called pop corn 'poc porn'. No comment on that.
my 3 year old son calls gnocchi 'pasta bees'. I think that is the cutest thing ever, I am never calling them anything else.
I used to go to this restaurant with my dad about once a week. I would always order a burger that was about the size of my head but he would help me finish it. I never knew the name of the place so whenever I wanted to eat I would ask if we could go to “The Burger.” At one point I forgot that it wasn’t the company’s name and got confused when I was corrected by my mom.
My daughter used to describe a sour/upset stomach as having a -bull in her tummy- . Kids have a fantastic way of expressing themselves!
My son loved chicken wings but never remembered the right name so he called them “chicken flys”
My son used to call clowns "Snow Plows" ( meaning snow men, which he has never experienced because we live in the desert... )
My three-year-old daughter would always drop the K in 'skunk' and referred to them as 'Stunks'. Pretty accurate.
My little sister renamed our brother who's name is Ashton but when she says it, it sounds like A**hole, and when she says Fork it's F*ck
When my sister was little, she called pirogies “pogies” and when my daughter was little, she called them “parmagegoes”
My little boy used to ask for the 'hairbrella' in the rain, because it kept his hair dry.
My nephew who was 4 at the time, told me that his favorite color is Rainbow.
My son's have always called my omlets 'Momlets'. Everyone else's are omlets but mine are momlets!
My Four year old loves emergency vehicles such as the police car that park at the police station, the fire truck that parks at the fire station and the ambulance that parks at the ...ambulance station.
not renaming but when my son got tired of waiting to do something he was told we would do later he would say "it's way past sooner"
My son, then 5, and I were sitting at the entrance to our apartment complex when he started yelling "Bad Boys, mom! Bad Boys!" I'm like "what are you.." then I saw the cop car go by. "Oh!" What do you sing? "Bad boys, bad boys, watcha gonna do? Watcha gonna do when they come for you?" We were singing all the way to the store.
He would also say "I'm busy, I'm busy!" every time we spun him around in our office chair. And it was never foggy outside..it was froggy outside.
Load More Replies... My granddaughter calls McDonald's hotdonalds. Donuts are dunholes. Her knee is her leg elbow.
I love the 2-4 ages, they're so human and fresh and lovely and have such a great humor!
My mom made a lot of my dresses before I turned 5. She would have me try them on before she was finished to check "the fit." One was too tight in the arms and I cried because it was "too fits" (too small.) 40 years later and she still asks "how fits" items are I try on.
Working in a primary school, you hear lots of these. Like the six year old who called a poodle a "lamb dog".
My dad tells me that when I was 4 or so, I referred to a steam shovel or bulldozer as a "dirt do". He thought that was perfect.
We saw a field which had a massive flock of sea gulls and crows on it. My small daughter at the time called them mud peckers.
My little genius showed me how to "biggify' stuff on the screen...
My kid was playing on the wii earlier the basketball mii game and he wohooo I did a slap duck I think he meant slam dunk
My favorite was the "How Do Stick" - i begged my parents for one but they couldnt work out what it was
My 3 yr old son says hot doctor when trying to say helicopter. Lol he's trying :) I think its adorable
A little girl I used to babysit told me she ate "Messy Jims" for lunch...sloppy joes haha
Interesting how the lower you seem to go on this list, the more believable it is that a child actually made them up...
My nephew, when he was 3 or 4, saw that my sister had a tiny decoration of a mini violin hanging on her wall, and our parents had at the time a Bichon Frise named Matisse. So he says: 'That's Matisse's M'tar!'
