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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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Ladies and Gentlemen 7 years ago
Sadly these "Battle Unicorns" are fighting a lost battle against human cruelty.
Zanthe 7 years ago
Hopefully they don't become a myth. This needs awareness.
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Drien Hiue 7 years ago
"Rhinoceros Unicornis" is a scientific classification for a type of rhinoceros :D
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Alec 7 years ago
cute name, but obviously a made-up story. A 3yo is unlikely to know what a vampire is, and there's no way she is going to refer to a fly as a house fly
MyCatsTheRealPanda 7 years ago
I mean it really depends on where they're from and the vocabulary the people around her used. If her parents said House fly she's likely to say house fly as well. It's like fire flies vs. lightning bugs. You'll call it what you are taught to call it. Not to mention some three year olds are pretty smart and will use words they've heard once from daycare, the supermarket, etc. her use of "House fly" may have shocked her parents as much as its shocked you ;) As far as the vampire thing, I mean she could have an older sibling, vampire loving parents, or heck even picked that up from a cartoon. I mean it could be made up too but it's not an impossible scenario.
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Ladies and Gentlemen 7 years ago
Not bad, actually if you think about it, its pretty accurate.
N S 7 years ago
no it's not. images are generated by the brain, not the eye.
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Randy Baker 7 years ago
Because the sound we make together ... is the music to the story in your eyes. -Moody Blues
BusLady 7 years ago
I wonder if she dreams in a rainbow of colors? I dream in B/W, myself, but I've heard that many people do dream in color.
Janina Prado 7 years ago
i dream in colour. i thought everyone did. i didn't know other only dreamt in b/w. wow. thank you for this info. i honestly didn't know this.
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Jenni Rauhala 7 years ago
My son saw "an animal with brains on top of its head" in petting zoo when he was 5yo. It took me a while to figure out that the animal was turkey 😂
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Ladies and Gentlemen 7 years ago
Much better then being called BUSH. Imagine a family conversation - "John - Go clean your bush, its looking gross"
Bobert Robertson 7 years ago
When would that ever be part of a normal conversation? Have you ever told someone.to clean their beard because it looks gross?
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Poison Alchemist of Life 7 years ago
My daughter saw a picture of a zucchini and suddenly said "Daddy kini, Dante Kini.." much better term instead of Penis . Wish I could post this but i am too late
Zach Hudson 7 years ago
Amazingly enough, the word for 'beard" in Papua New Guinea pidgin is "gras bilong fes" (grass belong face).
Chris Pitch 7 years ago
Don't show them a hairy bum...a**e grass...then again it does have a certain ring to it. will stop being cheeky now
Ilya Ditkovskiy 7 years ago
my face grass sucks :/ I don't know how to properly take care of my face grass...
Rob Galindo 7 years ago
LOL! my nephew when he was about 4 said "foot fingers" instead of toes, when he was learning english.
CbusResident 7 years ago
My nephew, when he was little, used to call my facial hair 'spikes', lol.
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ugaas wiilhoog 7 years ago
Probably a direct translation from the Dutch language (as it was a Dutch colony) and in Dutch it's called ziekenhuis, which means sick house or the house for the sick.
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Darleen Saunders 7 years ago
At the airport my daughter wanted desperately to get out and see the “merry-go-round for backpacks”.
Jane Alexander 7 years ago
My little bros and sis called them 'Whee wagons' because of the sound they make.
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Marsha Huddleston 5 years ago
When my nephew was a young child he called the rubber peeled off truck tires on the highway "truck poop."
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Laugh Fan 7 years ago
Yes, that's what we called them!!! Totally forgotten until I read your comment. Ta.
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Anita Marx 7 years ago
Not all kinds: Maultaschen, Tortellini, Ravioli in special. Teigtaschen is just the general term.
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Norma 7 years ago
Ok, I never do, but this time I actually did, laugh out loud.
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Laugh Fan 7 years ago
As long as you don't change the name of mittens... I like the word mittens.
BoredDragonfly 7 years ago
Ooh! Agree on that! To me Mittens sounds like kittens and it just sounds so cute! So I agree, mittens must stay!
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Kowayne Wynter 7 years ago
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.
Inge Vavrovsky 7 years ago
my sister, at age four, watched a cow give birth. Later she explained to my dad: Cow ate baby calf, then spat it out behind... clever, isn't it?
Grace Smith 7 years ago
Huh?! You mean it ate the afterbirth?....oh wait...never mind carry one
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Max 7 years ago
Here is my resume and the list of all books I've read, and I would like to apply for the job of Librarir!
Laugh Fan 7 years ago
If you've read too many already you might be overqualified. Good luck though.
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Janina Prado 7 years ago
why isn't that a real degree? who do we talk to about this?
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Blue Cicada 7 years ago
My work study job in college was at the library. I got reprimanded for taking too long to put away the books. My manager found me sitting by my book cart reading the pieces I was supposed to be shelving!
Paul O'Connor 5 years ago
And the collective term would have to be a 'stack' of librariers :-)
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Sol Connor 7 years ago
My son invented a similar one, yesternight. He said if there was a yesterday there should be a yesternight.
Joshua Seaman 7 years ago
There actually is a word for that: yestreen. #TheMoreYouKnow=⭐️
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Fester Sixonesixonethree 7 years ago
I had a coworker from India who called "this morning" "today morning." Made sense to me. :)
kkathleen517 7 years ago
My 3 year old nephew hates my mom's cat because he "spiked" him. He would come running in saying Nana, Tyler spiked me! Lol it was hilarious. He meant scratched...oh and the cat was just playing he was a kitten at the time but Jayce had no patience for him lol
Sol Connor 7 years ago
My son made up a similar one, yesternight. He said if we have a yesterday we should have a yesternight.
Julia Scott 5 years ago
My kids said “Hester night” and “last day”. They are now 30, 28, & 22. We still say yesternight.
Mary Hammond Anderson 6 years ago
My sister and I have been saying that since we were 5 or 6. We are in the later part of our fifties! I love that other kids are saying it too!
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Janet Allison 7 years ago
My sister, when she was a toddler and had diarrhea for the first time, she came out of he bathroom and told mom that she had “exploding yuckies”
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Ladies and Gentlemen 7 years ago
My 7-yr old Niece once called our neighborhood cemetery - "Obstacle course for the running souls". I shivered at the thought.
Kristoffer Albert Karikoski 5 years ago
i read centimeters. i thought you were really early on to hate the metric system X)
Grace Smith 7 years ago
I called them “dying patches” as in vegetable patches so that’s what I thought...family won’t look go...”hey Emma look!!! A dying patch”
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Hans Van Der Veen 5 years ago
You know wy? I do... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MZw_Iv0wdU
Nugget Lol 7 years ago
What was going thru your head while you typed that
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JillVille 7 years ago
My daughter was 2 when she renamed "no frills" the grocery store. She called it "the banana store" due to the bananas on the sign. It made sense and stuck for years. As a teen she asked me why I call it the banana store still. Habit kiddo, lol
Bruiseshipping Bitch 7 years ago
I did the same thing and to this day we still call it the banana store
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logical fallacy 7 years ago
One time I was invited to the party of the friend of a friend who happened to be into crafts and sewing and the like. She was kind enough to take us on a tour of her working room, and she kept saying 'this is where the buttons live', 'this is where the glue lives', 'this is where the chalk lives'. It was hilarious and cute at the same time.
Janina Prado 7 years ago
we had a family dinner in a vietnamese restaurant with my 4 year old granddaughter. she called it The Ramen Store. she's not wrong.
Nostalgic Hyena 7 years ago
When I was younger, I used to call the Portillo's restaurant near us "The On-Off-On Restaurant" because of the flashing sign.
Jane Alexander 7 years ago
After he'd had some Junior mints but didn't know the name my little one asked for some more 'M&M candy canes'
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Daria B 7 years ago
Oh, and btw, it's so poetic. Reminds of Cool Under Heat.
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Laugh Fan 7 years ago
Why has it become all about the eyebrows? I'm blonde, mine are invisible without dye and even then are a bit wispy and pathetic. Can't we make it all about another feature so that I can join in?
logical fallacy 7 years ago
You have my sympathy. My mum is really blonde with invisible eyebrows too. When I was a kid I used to draw people without eyebrows because I thought it was a thing only my dad had XD
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Laugh Fan 7 years ago
Looks like you've been the victim of a drive-by down voter. Seem to be a lot of them about these days. I'll upvote to redress the balance - I feel like being a bit bloody-minded today.
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Cassie Hangren 7 years ago
My daughter did this too when she was 3. Its the cutest thing ever!
Joanna Maynard 7 years ago
I have very fine eyebrows and eyelashes with very few hairs, they are hardly visible. A legacy of chemotherapy where I have been fortunate enough to have the hair on my head grow back but eyebrows and eyelashes have not faired so well.
marie elle 7 years ago
My son has a girlfrind (teens)and she always corrects him if he's talking about eyebrwS- its one altogether...
Pollen the Pink Ninja 7 years ago
I don't get why teen girls fuss about eyebrows... and I AM one. If you search 'why do we have eyebrows' it comes up with"...So while we slowly evolved to lose most of our body hair, our eyelashes and eyebrows remained."
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BusLady 7 years ago
At first, I thought "Boo-boo trucks" meant vehicles that had been in a wreck. :-)
Amazon QT 7 years ago
Mine bedskins always find their way to the end of the bed.
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Laugh Fan 7 years ago
My father always called them the Dead Centre of whatever town we were passing. Yeah, yeah dad.
Lachlan Steininger 7 years ago
My dad says that peole are dieing to go there
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Jeff Christensen 7 years ago
A French expression for it translates literaĺly as "garden of stones".
Anton Perepelenko 7 years ago
Actually, cemeteries are called exactly like that in Estonian o.O
Analyn Lahr 7 years ago
Well considering some of them are officially called "Memorial Gardens"...
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Šimon Špaček 7 years ago
My friend sometimes refer to his wrist as "the ankle on hand". Also guitar would be "wooden thing with thingies"...
Jocke Lavett 7 years ago
The Swedish word for ankle is vrist. The Swedish word for wrist is handled (hand joint).
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Kai Cin Liang 7 years ago
How come? It's really good. Some sushi doesn't have raw fish
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Fluffy I am. obey me. or else. 7 years ago
Here's my renaming of the movie: TOTALLY FRICKING AWESOME
Jörg Zingler 7 years ago
The German translation of one of the dialogues was: Dr. Seltsam, = "weird" thats a strange name. He renamed himself. Before he was Dr. Merkwürdig. = "strange"
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Bruiseshipping Bitch 7 years ago
Please do not Hurt the poor kitties......l will not be able to carry the on
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Casandra Nițescu 7 years ago
I remember my nephew trying to fool me into thinking the same thing when I was a kid. "You see those? That's where clouds come from!" I never believed him ( I was a smarter kid than that ;P ) , but I remember thinking it was a beautiful thought. Instead of spewing out god knows what into the air, they make clouds. If only..
Faith Nicole 7 years ago
I said the same thing when i was young. Thought that's where the clouds came from
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Subet Ludick 7 years ago
My niece could not remember the word for bra once, and re-named it a "titty trouser"...
BoredDragonfly 7 years ago
I'd go with boobie-bra (like you have another kind of bra? Lol). But my friend once made up a boobie-bra song, for fun. That song stuck with me. :-D
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Gavin Ivey 7 years ago
I remember them being called "over the shoulder boulder holders" but I was 9 or 10
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Arya Baranwal 7 years ago
Amazingly, the company was actually named after a tradition of feeding barking dogs to keep them quiet, which was seen by the founder at one of his friends' house.
Blue Cicada 7 years ago
Hush puppies are delicious deep fried balls of corn bread. The healthier version, shaped and baked, shall be know as quiet doggies.
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Darrin Bowers 7 years ago
My god daughter (age 4) started using that same term about 6 months ago. Several adults in her life now do as well.
Nicole Holt 7 years ago
Ha! I shall use that one! My (adult) children will get a kick out of it. LOL
Kriz Zimmermann 7 years ago
lol that is cute xD but first i was like "wait what? what's my name doing there??" lol xD 😂 finally i found my female equivalent xD
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Natalia Morgado Nardi 7 years ago
in portuguese is lanchonete (pronounce like lunshonete) not far
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Red Pantone 7 years ago
My native language is Spanish, it sounds horrible haha "burrito" is a baby or small donkey :( translated in spanglish would be baby donkey's skin
Jake Phillips 7 years ago
Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho calls them burrito coverin's
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diane a 7 years ago
I have a phobia re "sting flowers" - age 7 i fell flat on my face on a cut down nettle bed - wearing a vest and shorts -what a mess!! -- they are just evil
diane a 7 years ago
my phobia was so bad that on a school nature walk aged 10 i found myself on a narrow path with some unavoidable sting flowers in the way - I just screamed and screamed until a teacher picked me up and carried me safely past
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Laugh Fan 7 years ago
One of those evil little sting flowers got me on a walk with my dogs this morning!!
BusLady 7 years ago
I once got scratched by a Yucca plant on a hike. We had to find a Dr. during the middle of our vacation.
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can someone help me pls - I am not feeling very good and have no-one to turn to
BusLady 7 years ago
Call your local hospital. They can refer you to a hotline where you can talk to someone. It's confidential and private. Sometimes talking to someone can help. I'm concerned about your welfare.
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Hamlets twin 7 years ago
A great little video of a girl who wants to know what they feel like. Enjoy: https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/8o1lv0/little_girl_finds_out_what_its_like_to_be_stung/
Joannie Goulet 7 years ago
My son used to call my potted cacti that when he was like 2. He keep telling me he never touched them but I have doubts.
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BoredDragonfly 7 years ago
My friend's son did almost the same! But since there were (or are? I do not watch it) broccoli trees in Sesame-Street (at least over here in The Netherlands), he called them the white Sesame-Street trees. Our bird is also blue in stead of yellow. So I know there are differences.
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Hamlets twin 7 years ago
"I'm gunna sing the doom song now doom de doom doom doom do de doooooooom dooom do doom deee doooooom do dom dooom doom."
Anita Rapp 7 years ago
For a long time, my son called the car's wipers 'wimper-wipers'. I still do.
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Neb 7 years ago
In Lithuanian both fingers and toes are named the same, and yes, both have "thumb" and "pinky" (though other finger names are for hands' fingers only)
Pollen the Pink Ninja 7 years ago
I think I used to do that XD (I mean we have a pinky toe and pinky finger so are we wrong?)
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Pamda Panda 7 years ago
One nickname I have given my cat is Kitten-Kat. Like Kit-Kats for Kittens.
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BusLady 7 years ago
A piece of heavy construction equipment used to move dirt.
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Joannie Goulet 7 years ago
Well... there's this kids show called Dinotrucks that probably confused more than one kid...
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Talia Johnson 7 years ago
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)
Bobert Robertson 7 years ago
My 3 year old daughter calls bagels donut toast. I put her in marketing pre-school.
stellermatt 7 years ago
my son calls them growney beans if me and my wife are eating them and kidney beans if he's eating them...
Michael Reilly 7 years ago
My niece said "grandma, the computer iced" when it froze playing a game.
Elizabeth Newton 7 years ago
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.
Jane Thorne-Gutierrez 7 years ago
My grandson was standing at top of a construction site, and he stated he was " at the edge of below"
Danielle Tropea Ibclc Cpst 7 years ago
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."
Dirgni San 7 years ago
My niece called tomorrow nexterday. When I was a kid I called lobsters mobsters and referred to a foggy day as a froggy day.
Talia Johnson 7 years ago
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)
Bobert Robertson 7 years ago
My 3 year old daughter calls bagels donut toast. I put her in marketing pre-school.
stellermatt 7 years ago
my son calls them growney beans if me and my wife are eating them and kidney beans if he's eating them...
Michael Reilly 7 years ago
My niece said "grandma, the computer iced" when it froze playing a game.
Elizabeth Newton 7 years ago
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.
Jane Thorne-Gutierrez 7 years ago
My grandson was standing at top of a construction site, and he stated he was " at the edge of below"
Danielle Tropea Ibclc Cpst 7 years ago
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."
Dirgni San 7 years ago
My niece called tomorrow nexterday. When I was a kid I called lobsters mobsters and referred to a foggy day as a froggy day.
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