We all know that kids say the funniest and craziest things sometimes; their young brains haven't been conditioned to follow our narrow rules of speech just yet so they quite often just name things as their creative brains see fit.
And you know what? A vast majority of the time, kids' made-up names for things actually make more sense, are much funnier and more descriptive than the originals could ever wish to be. Ice cubes? Nah, that'll be water bricks, please!
In the list below, you'll get a new perspective on things that we have been taught not to notice. Only the pure, unsullied minds of kids could come up with these poetic observations! Scroll down below to check them out for yourself, and feel free to add your own in the comments!
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Same thing: you have to shave them at some point or they'll grow
A) so it is decreed by law of all Internet, and B) for some reason my brain's first reaction was "Delicious"...
Not unique to your dad. "Bedclothes" is a legitimate term for bedding.
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@Laura Wesoff Generally, I'd just downvote and go, but this is a teachable moment. Right now, the style of typing that people find interesting is the "breathless, quick style." This includes lots of adjectives, no full stops, and no capital letters. I actually enjoy this writing style, as it does away the concept of the 'grammar Nazi.' I'm also not very good with punctuation, myself, so another reason to use that style. There's no need to abuse people for following trends.
guess I am a book looker now, totally like it more than reader and bookworm.
When I was a kid I used to call beer or wine daddy's pop. Pop is what the Irish call soda.
When I was at school, with 7 yo, i was studying sea stuff for an exam. Our word for cave in "ensenada" and I started saying "ensaimada" that is a pastry-candy. Mother didnt correct me. The teacher corrected me in the oral exam and everyone laught, was pretty cruel cause I really tought I was doing it right. I got really mad with my mother for not correcting me.
When my granddaughter was playing on my bed and I asked why it was now a mess and she told me it wasn't a mess, it was a "Disasterpiece". I no longer have messes in my home.
Disasterpiece, I like that. And every child is certainly a happy child when they create a disasterpiece :)
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We used to have Frozen-themed band-aids about two years ago. My daughter is now 4-years-old now, and she still asks for an "Olaf" whenever she has a scrape.
My 2-year-old heard her dad farting and she created her very first self-made word: "poo-bang" (in Hungarian kaka-puff) because a fart smells like poo and sounds like a bang :) logic at its finest
I love kaka-puff much more that poo-bang, even in English!
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I am genuinely sad that there are only 26 posts instead of 77... I actually laughed out loud at some of these!
Gotta love the pun, probably unintended though lol
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My brother called his uvula a "Throat Weenie" because he didn't know the actual name. He was 7. Thank god my parents had a talk with him about the actual name of it and why he shouldn't call it that. 😑
According to my grandmother, my father renamed strawberries "star babies." They've been star babies to everybody in my family since.
I have absolutely how this misunderstanding happened...but my son used to call the stalks of strawberries or tomatoes pubes. We were at church charity picnic when he asked a lady to "take the pubes off his strawberries for him" I can still see the look on her face.
In the bath one evening my then 2 year old son referred to his toes as 'foot babies'.
My 4 yo daughter correcting her 2 yo brother on facial features- theses are ‘eyeflashes’ and these are ‘eye browns ‘
My brother also used to say "eye browns" when he was young, and my son called shoulders "soldiers", and also said "camera-flashed" meaning camouflaged.
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When my daughter was two years old she referred to fried eggs as pop belly eggs and the pizza delivery car as thecpizza taxi
My daughter used to call sanitary pads “bum bandaids”, my brother used to call trifle “lergic” and when I was younger I used to call baked beans “beetle brains”.
I think half of these are made up by the parents... Really? I little kid came up with "pride cheerios?" I don't think so...
I can believe it if the parents had already been referring to things they saw with rainbows on as 'Pride . . . whatever'. Many families care about or are involved in the Pride movement, so it can be a common topic of conversation or reference.
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When I was little I called mushrooms "boom booms." It stuck in my family and one day my mom mentioned cooking something with "boom boom soup" in front of my husband and he will forever stick with that.
for my brother it was a bok bok chicken...probably coz he got corrected so many times he'd use both
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When I was little I called the Our Father the bread prayer. (Give us this day our daily bread) lol
When I was about 10 and she was about 6, my neighbor's daughter used to call her knuckles 'nipples', which I found out when she'd told me she'd 'skinned her nipples'.
My daughter would call the remote control "mope" so that's what I ended calling it every time, to this day ... better than "moken troll" ...
Mine would call it the "mote" at 17 months. She'd point to it and say the word "mote@ and you were supposed to know to turn the tv on to Barney.
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Without sounding waaay to cheesy (whatever) I JUST LOOOOVE KIDS and the way they express themself before the world around them starts to correct them (usually in school) I make up words myself all the time and very few people around me even ask me what I mean, just assuming that I have to keep myself to the dictionary. ... Love ya all!!!
My daughter couldn't pronounce 'certificate' and called it a 'sticky foot' . My son called triangles 'tri-nangles' and I was sooo sad when he learned the correct pronunciation.
Kid I used to watch fell down one day and caught himself with his hands. He then announced that his "hand-neck" hurt and I haven't referred to them as wrists since.
My son has loads of these! The remote is the "didoo" because when he was about 18 months old, he started miming pressing it at the TV if he wanted a programme on and as he pressed the pretend remote he repeated "didoo, didoo!" as the TV we had at the time made that kind of noise when you turned it on. His latest one is "Mama tubes" which are tampons.
My daughter when she was 6 instead of last night she would say yesternight😂😂
That is actually not incorrect, if we say yesterday...
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Had a box of Whoppers sitting in my station and an older gal who I was helping started giggling. She told me that her little granddaughter calls them Who-Peepers! It's been 5 years and I still call them that.
My niece calls premade fried onions you can buy in the store - hot dog sprinkles! even between my friends it became the common name for them :D
My nephew called a flamingo a pink swan then corrected himself to Pinkmingo.
When my daughter was helping to fold clothes her dad's underwear were "man panties." They've been that ever since.
My daughter called cupcakes muffcakes - muffin+cake. For 20+ years that's what we still call them.
My kids called the phone a hello phone....20+ years later I still call it a hello phone
My little brother once came into the kitchen and told us that "a hiccup is a backwards cough". He´s always been very clever!
Why do these people want their child not to be corrected? They will do it into adulthood thinking it's cute. No Karen, it's not cute when you say "Gubble Bum", you're 42.
I love all of these. When my grandchildren were little they called the lawn maintenance guys the "mow yards". They are now 27 & 29 years old, and my 2 great grand babies call them "the mow yards", as well as their parents & grandparents, great grandparents, and and their aunts & uncles. We all love The Mow Yards moniker.
My damy mom wanted to cut a strand of baby hairs above my daughters' forehead and she said "I don't want it cut. Its my unihorn!"
When my kids were little they called malted milk balls, "chocolate meat balls!" They will forever be that to me!
When my kids were little, they referred to malted milk balls as "chocolate meat balls!" I will forever call them that!
My little brother calls electricity Electhreekity and camouflage is cauliflage so a sudden blackout or a random Army personal in uniform passing by is always interesting with him around.
At age 3 my daughter looked out on a recent blizzard," Wow, it's pitch white outside!"
when ever someone hiccuped for like 5 years i said 'god hic you' i also said that there should be an aviary with 'samples' of the birds.
When I worked at a school one of the kids called gravy Liquid Love lol
When I was planning a trip to America, my son requested that I bring back a box of that famous pancake brand Aunt Vagina.
My son used to think that lations were congradged. When someone did something good he said, "Contrage-your-lations." One day he did something he thought worth notice and asked me, "Hey! Aren't you going to congradg my lations?" So, of course I did and I've been congradging other's lations ever since. (My son is now 34)
I love this. When I was a toddler (decades ago!) and I was being told off I answered back. My mum told me not to argue and I replied "and don't arg me either!"
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My favorite is my son calling Parmesean Cheese "Spaghetti Sprinkles". He saw it online somewhere in some meme and where we used to call it "shaky cheese", it's now and forever "Spaghetti Sprinkles"
Not sure if it was me or my brother who started it, but "Sketti" (spaghetti), pissa (pizza), and "adult-juice" (anything with alcohol) are still used today - and there are many more, but they don't make sense when translated from Norweegian ;-)
When my daughter was a toddler she thought nipples was pronounced nickles.14 years later we still call them nickles.
My 4 year old has a few of these & I love it. Headphones are robot ears. Hair clips are hair spiders. Trampolines she calls trampoloons. & I’m never correcting this. My autistic 3 year old calls anything that resembles a sheep a ‘baa’.
When my daughter was small and she would scrape her knee we would whip out the Neosporin. Somehow she associated that directly with the knee scrape. So she fell another time and hurt her elbow. She instructed me that she needed the Elbowsporin. She's 26 now and we still call it "Elbowsporin"
I used to diangle instead of diagonal, my mom thought it as fitting so she never corrected me
My daughter had a close friend who would call her elbow her Kunkle. Why I have no idea.
I still remember my mom trying to teach me to pronounce the word kerchief. For some reason I always said ker-FITCH! Now I just say "scarf"
3yo: Me got a shower in my mouth. me*: ??? 3yo (points to his throat): Shower in my mouth. me: A sore throat? 3yo: Yes, shower. * me = au-pair
That reminds me when my now adult daughter tried to tell me she had a headache; she told me that she had a stomach ache in her head. I knew exactly what she meant and gave her a baby aspirin.
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My 2 yr old counts his fingers and says: one, tu, tee, bour, HAND!
I had a little friend who would make up a word for a thing she didn't know. That was like fifty years ago, and I still prefer "rainpas" to "airplane", and "chambelle" to "guitar".
Lived near San Jose and my husband commuted to San Francisco. Our then 4yo daughter combined them and called them "San Ho-disco." My current 3yo has noticed how the rest of the family plays "Slug Bug" when we're in the car, but he calls it "Spug Wug," so now the rest of us do, too.
When my daughter was about 3 she called my co-proximal painkillers Co-co pops em all! But Kellogg's never made these!
My brother used to call the garbage truck, the ones that actually pick up the big trash containers, the "boom-bam" . He's now 37 and we somehow still call it that sometimes.
When my daughter was 3 she ate a full meal. Turned to me and said ''MY GOODIE SPOT IS NOT FULL YET!'' Me- Taegan what is a Goodie Spot, Taegan- Mom You Know that spot that holds goodies. (Aka Deserts) My daughter thought till she was 7 that there was two stomachs one for food an a small one for Cakes, Cookies, Candies, and such
My 2 year old revised to pronounce bumblebee correctly, instead we get bugabee.
My nephew couldn't form the "sn" sound as a tot. He called snakes "FWANKS." It's not clever, but so cute that I still say fwank 35 years later. lol!
I met a 7 year old who called pizza crust the "pizza bones". It makes so much sense I've never called it anything since
My daughter called "tongs" "grabnabbers" when she was little. She's 13 now and we still call them "grabnabbers."
My husband called my step daughter a hooligan as a joke one night and she said in her 9 year old voice I'm not a hoogalin. Any time someone is acting foolish or one of the girls is being extra feisty we call them a hoogalin!!
my 3 year old once reminded me very loudly in a crowded changing room after swimming that we don't talk about nipples in public
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We have a chair that matches our couch. Oh 5 year old called it the mini-couch one day and we've called it mini-couch ever since.
We used to twirl my son around in the office chair and when the chair stopped he's say "I'm busy, I'm busy." It was never foggy outside..it was froggy outside. He used to ask us where certain people were.."Where's Dad?" "Dad's not here, Dad's at work." "Where is Grandpa?" "Grandpa's not here, Grandpa's at work." One day he saw a Uhaul with a picture of a Tiger on it as we left our apartment parking lot. "Mom look Tiger! Mom look Tiger!" When we returned later and the Uhaul was gone, he said "Tiger's gone. Tiger's at work." Well he wasn't wrong.
My granddaughter calls skunks the “stinky zebra rats”. I will call it that forever.😂
My daughter forgot the name for straws and called them "slerp sticks." The funnier part is she is 21!
when my brother was a toddler, he used to say the cutest thing. When he wanted someone to pick him up, he'd ask for an "up cuddle" and its the only fond memory I have of that era.
When my sister was about 5yo, Ronald Reagan was up for re-election. She asked my Dad if he thought Reagan would be "represidentualized" instead of re-elected.
My sister when we were younger, and it was an election year, asked my Dad if Ronald Reagan was going to be "represidentualized" instead of re-elected. given she was about 5yo at the time, not bad.
my cousin called excavators "egg-a-bators"...and its stuck (20 years later)
My sister called cup cakes "pup-cakes" after feeding one to the dog. She still calls them that. She's now 54.
My baby gurl called ravioli, "meat pillows." She's now 27, and we still call them such. -Dr. M
When my son was 3 - 4 he called stuffing “chicken butt salad.” He is 23 now and it has remained “chicken butt salad.”
My 2 year old granddaughter calls AFLAC: "A*s Crack" when the commercial comes on the TV.
My 2 year old granddaughter calls AFLAC: "A*s Crack" Everytime the commercial comes on the TV
My husband likes flavored water...all the kids and grandkids call it "papa water".....so much that all our friends and acquaintances now do the same thing.
My niece used to call squirrels, squizzels when she was a toddler. I still refer to them as this almost 20 years later. Also, kiwis were kiwigs.
When my granddaughter was playing on my bed and I asked why it was now a mess and she told me it wasn't a mess, it was a "Disasterpiece". I no longer have messes in my home.
Disasterpiece, I like that. And every child is certainly a happy child when they create a disasterpiece :)
Load More Replies... We used to have Frozen-themed band-aids about two years ago. My daughter is now 4-years-old now, and she still asks for an "Olaf" whenever she has a scrape.
My 2-year-old heard her dad farting and she created her very first self-made word: "poo-bang" (in Hungarian kaka-puff) because a fart smells like poo and sounds like a bang :) logic at its finest
I love kaka-puff much more that poo-bang, even in English!
Load More Replies... I am genuinely sad that there are only 26 posts instead of 77... I actually laughed out loud at some of these!
Gotta love the pun, probably unintended though lol
Load More Replies... My brother called his uvula a "Throat Weenie" because he didn't know the actual name. He was 7. Thank god my parents had a talk with him about the actual name of it and why he shouldn't call it that. 😑
According to my grandmother, my father renamed strawberries "star babies." They've been star babies to everybody in my family since.
I have absolutely how this misunderstanding happened...but my son used to call the stalks of strawberries or tomatoes pubes. We were at church charity picnic when he asked a lady to "take the pubes off his strawberries for him" I can still see the look on her face.
In the bath one evening my then 2 year old son referred to his toes as 'foot babies'.
My 4 yo daughter correcting her 2 yo brother on facial features- theses are ‘eyeflashes’ and these are ‘eye browns ‘
My brother also used to say "eye browns" when he was young, and my son called shoulders "soldiers", and also said "camera-flashed" meaning camouflaged.
Load More Replies... When my daughter was two years old she referred to fried eggs as pop belly eggs and the pizza delivery car as thecpizza taxi
My daughter used to call sanitary pads “bum bandaids”, my brother used to call trifle “lergic” and when I was younger I used to call baked beans “beetle brains”.
I think half of these are made up by the parents... Really? I little kid came up with "pride cheerios?" I don't think so...
I can believe it if the parents had already been referring to things they saw with rainbows on as 'Pride . . . whatever'. Many families care about or are involved in the Pride movement, so it can be a common topic of conversation or reference.
Load More Replies... When I was little I called mushrooms "boom booms." It stuck in my family and one day my mom mentioned cooking something with "boom boom soup" in front of my husband and he will forever stick with that.
for my brother it was a bok bok chicken...probably coz he got corrected so many times he'd use both
Load More Replies... When I was little I called the Our Father the bread prayer. (Give us this day our daily bread) lol
When I was about 10 and she was about 6, my neighbor's daughter used to call her knuckles 'nipples', which I found out when she'd told me she'd 'skinned her nipples'.
My daughter would call the remote control "mope" so that's what I ended calling it every time, to this day ... better than "moken troll" ...
Mine would call it the "mote" at 17 months. She'd point to it and say the word "mote@ and you were supposed to know to turn the tv on to Barney.
Load More Replies... Without sounding waaay to cheesy (whatever) I JUST LOOOOVE KIDS and the way they express themself before the world around them starts to correct them (usually in school) I make up words myself all the time and very few people around me even ask me what I mean, just assuming that I have to keep myself to the dictionary. ... Love ya all!!!
My daughter couldn't pronounce 'certificate' and called it a 'sticky foot' . My son called triangles 'tri-nangles' and I was sooo sad when he learned the correct pronunciation.
Kid I used to watch fell down one day and caught himself with his hands. He then announced that his "hand-neck" hurt and I haven't referred to them as wrists since.
My son has loads of these! The remote is the "didoo" because when he was about 18 months old, he started miming pressing it at the TV if he wanted a programme on and as he pressed the pretend remote he repeated "didoo, didoo!" as the TV we had at the time made that kind of noise when you turned it on. His latest one is "Mama tubes" which are tampons.
My daughter when she was 6 instead of last night she would say yesternight😂😂
That is actually not incorrect, if we say yesterday...
Load More Replies... Had a box of Whoppers sitting in my station and an older gal who I was helping started giggling. She told me that her little granddaughter calls them Who-Peepers! It's been 5 years and I still call them that.
My niece calls premade fried onions you can buy in the store - hot dog sprinkles! even between my friends it became the common name for them :D
My nephew called a flamingo a pink swan then corrected himself to Pinkmingo.
When my daughter was helping to fold clothes her dad's underwear were "man panties." They've been that ever since.
My daughter called cupcakes muffcakes - muffin+cake. For 20+ years that's what we still call them.
My kids called the phone a hello phone....20+ years later I still call it a hello phone
My little brother once came into the kitchen and told us that "a hiccup is a backwards cough". He´s always been very clever!
Why do these people want their child not to be corrected? They will do it into adulthood thinking it's cute. No Karen, it's not cute when you say "Gubble Bum", you're 42.
I love all of these. When my grandchildren were little they called the lawn maintenance guys the "mow yards". They are now 27 & 29 years old, and my 2 great grand babies call them "the mow yards", as well as their parents & grandparents, great grandparents, and and their aunts & uncles. We all love The Mow Yards moniker.
My damy mom wanted to cut a strand of baby hairs above my daughters' forehead and she said "I don't want it cut. Its my unihorn!"
When my kids were little they called malted milk balls, "chocolate meat balls!" They will forever be that to me!
When my kids were little, they referred to malted milk balls as "chocolate meat balls!" I will forever call them that!
My little brother calls electricity Electhreekity and camouflage is cauliflage so a sudden blackout or a random Army personal in uniform passing by is always interesting with him around.
At age 3 my daughter looked out on a recent blizzard," Wow, it's pitch white outside!"
when ever someone hiccuped for like 5 years i said 'god hic you' i also said that there should be an aviary with 'samples' of the birds.
When I worked at a school one of the kids called gravy Liquid Love lol
When I was planning a trip to America, my son requested that I bring back a box of that famous pancake brand Aunt Vagina.
My son used to think that lations were congradged. When someone did something good he said, "Contrage-your-lations." One day he did something he thought worth notice and asked me, "Hey! Aren't you going to congradg my lations?" So, of course I did and I've been congradging other's lations ever since. (My son is now 34)
I love this. When I was a toddler (decades ago!) and I was being told off I answered back. My mum told me not to argue and I replied "and don't arg me either!"
Load More Replies... My favorite is my son calling Parmesean Cheese "Spaghetti Sprinkles". He saw it online somewhere in some meme and where we used to call it "shaky cheese", it's now and forever "Spaghetti Sprinkles"
Not sure if it was me or my brother who started it, but "Sketti" (spaghetti), pissa (pizza), and "adult-juice" (anything with alcohol) are still used today - and there are many more, but they don't make sense when translated from Norweegian ;-)
When my daughter was a toddler she thought nipples was pronounced nickles.14 years later we still call them nickles.
My 4 year old has a few of these & I love it. Headphones are robot ears. Hair clips are hair spiders. Trampolines she calls trampoloons. & I’m never correcting this. My autistic 3 year old calls anything that resembles a sheep a ‘baa’.
When my daughter was small and she would scrape her knee we would whip out the Neosporin. Somehow she associated that directly with the knee scrape. So she fell another time and hurt her elbow. She instructed me that she needed the Elbowsporin. She's 26 now and we still call it "Elbowsporin"
I used to diangle instead of diagonal, my mom thought it as fitting so she never corrected me
My daughter had a close friend who would call her elbow her Kunkle. Why I have no idea.
I still remember my mom trying to teach me to pronounce the word kerchief. For some reason I always said ker-FITCH! Now I just say "scarf"
3yo: Me got a shower in my mouth. me*: ??? 3yo (points to his throat): Shower in my mouth. me: A sore throat? 3yo: Yes, shower. * me = au-pair
That reminds me when my now adult daughter tried to tell me she had a headache; she told me that she had a stomach ache in her head. I knew exactly what she meant and gave her a baby aspirin.
Load More Replies... My 2 yr old counts his fingers and says: one, tu, tee, bour, HAND!
I had a little friend who would make up a word for a thing she didn't know. That was like fifty years ago, and I still prefer "rainpas" to "airplane", and "chambelle" to "guitar".
Lived near San Jose and my husband commuted to San Francisco. Our then 4yo daughter combined them and called them "San Ho-disco." My current 3yo has noticed how the rest of the family plays "Slug Bug" when we're in the car, but he calls it "Spug Wug," so now the rest of us do, too.
When my daughter was about 3 she called my co-proximal painkillers Co-co pops em all! But Kellogg's never made these!
My brother used to call the garbage truck, the ones that actually pick up the big trash containers, the "boom-bam" . He's now 37 and we somehow still call it that sometimes.
When my daughter was 3 she ate a full meal. Turned to me and said ''MY GOODIE SPOT IS NOT FULL YET!'' Me- Taegan what is a Goodie Spot, Taegan- Mom You Know that spot that holds goodies. (Aka Deserts) My daughter thought till she was 7 that there was two stomachs one for food an a small one for Cakes, Cookies, Candies, and such
My 2 year old revised to pronounce bumblebee correctly, instead we get bugabee.
My nephew couldn't form the "sn" sound as a tot. He called snakes "FWANKS." It's not clever, but so cute that I still say fwank 35 years later. lol!
I met a 7 year old who called pizza crust the "pizza bones". It makes so much sense I've never called it anything since
My daughter called "tongs" "grabnabbers" when she was little. She's 13 now and we still call them "grabnabbers."
My husband called my step daughter a hooligan as a joke one night and she said in her 9 year old voice I'm not a hoogalin. Any time someone is acting foolish or one of the girls is being extra feisty we call them a hoogalin!!
my 3 year old once reminded me very loudly in a crowded changing room after swimming that we don't talk about nipples in public
Load More Replies... We have a chair that matches our couch. Oh 5 year old called it the mini-couch one day and we've called it mini-couch ever since.
We used to twirl my son around in the office chair and when the chair stopped he's say "I'm busy, I'm busy." It was never foggy outside..it was froggy outside. He used to ask us where certain people were.."Where's Dad?" "Dad's not here, Dad's at work." "Where is Grandpa?" "Grandpa's not here, Grandpa's at work." One day he saw a Uhaul with a picture of a Tiger on it as we left our apartment parking lot. "Mom look Tiger! Mom look Tiger!" When we returned later and the Uhaul was gone, he said "Tiger's gone. Tiger's at work." Well he wasn't wrong.
My granddaughter calls skunks the “stinky zebra rats”. I will call it that forever.😂
My daughter forgot the name for straws and called them "slerp sticks." The funnier part is she is 21!
when my brother was a toddler, he used to say the cutest thing. When he wanted someone to pick him up, he'd ask for an "up cuddle" and its the only fond memory I have of that era.
When my sister was about 5yo, Ronald Reagan was up for re-election. She asked my Dad if he thought Reagan would be "represidentualized" instead of re-elected.
My sister when we were younger, and it was an election year, asked my Dad if Ronald Reagan was going to be "represidentualized" instead of re-elected. given she was about 5yo at the time, not bad.
my cousin called excavators "egg-a-bators"...and its stuck (20 years later)
My sister called cup cakes "pup-cakes" after feeding one to the dog. She still calls them that. She's now 54.
My baby gurl called ravioli, "meat pillows." She's now 27, and we still call them such. -Dr. M
When my son was 3 - 4 he called stuffing “chicken butt salad.” He is 23 now and it has remained “chicken butt salad.”
My 2 year old granddaughter calls AFLAC: "A*s Crack" when the commercial comes on the TV.
My 2 year old granddaughter calls AFLAC: "A*s Crack" Everytime the commercial comes on the TV
My husband likes flavored water...all the kids and grandkids call it "papa water".....so much that all our friends and acquaintances now do the same thing.
My niece used to call squirrels, squizzels when she was a toddler. I still refer to them as this almost 20 years later. Also, kiwis were kiwigs.
