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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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#1
Hilliary Smith 6 years ago
The battle unicorns in Black Panther was one of my favorite parts!
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David Muench 6 years ago
That would have made a great cartoon - alongside "The Transformers" and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles."
Jo Mclellan 6 years ago
My daughter at 5 yo wanted a "down dress". Could not figure out what she meant until walking through a clothing store. A manequin was dressed in a floor length dress. That was the down dress bc it went down to the floor!
Elaine Dodge 6 years ago
I suspect I'm going to like everything on this thread! Because Battle Unicorn is just so...right!
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Monday 6 years ago
They didn't specify how old the kid was. Could have been a 12 year old with a good sense of humour.
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Iulia Kelly 6 years ago
Out of curiosity, what do you do when you aren’t busy virtue signaling?
#4
Kristy P 6 years ago
I thought the term "pantyhose" was plural, so I called singular knee highs "panty ho".
Foxxy 6 years ago
When my brother was about 5, he asked my mum what the small pockets in jeans were for. My mum said ask your Poppa. When he asked my Poppa what it was for he said it’s for condoms. He then asked what condoms are and my Poppa said it’s to put your w***y in. My brother walked away confused and a few minutes later he asks my Poppa how he is supposed to get his W***y to the condom in his pocket.
Lucille McGillicuddy 6 years ago
She should meet Paddington! They would be best friends, with their Snack Holes and Sandwich Compartments.
#5
Jessie Shea 6 years ago
Water bricks sounds so much better then ice cubes. I had a different word also, I called it Key Key. I think maybe because of the sound they made banging together like a clanging sound. I still call it key key today. I'm 51 years old🤣🤣
Terri Magula 6 years ago
When we visited Alaska and saw the glaciers, my 2 year old daughter starting asking for glaciers in her glass instead of ice cubes
Johanna-Nicollette Kidd 6 years ago
Apt name, kids are better at naming stuff than adults will ever be
#6
Kathryn Richards 6 years ago
My daughter used to call seals "dog mermaids" when she was younger.
#7
danielw 6 years ago
is it bad if I just had a vision of some guy with a chain going between a pierced tooth and a pierced ear?
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Angela Adams 6 years ago
My 4 year old has called headphones ‘robot ears’ since she could talk. That’s what I call them now
Elaine Dodge 6 years ago
Here in Southern Africa traffic lights have always been called 'robots' so robot stairs... can't believe we didn't think of that!
Clematis 6 years ago
Who else used to love going up the escalator then riding back down and so forth for hours at the mall while they waited for their parents?
Ellie Ragsdale 6 years ago
My little sister enjoyed that a lot. Annoyed me and mom so much.
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Rob Chapman 6 years ago
I knew a person that called them "elevator chutes"....He was not a child.
Catherine Hankinson 6 years ago
My little boy could t say escalators so we call them moving stairs.
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engineer_nope.avi 6 years ago
Same thing: you have to shave them at some point or they'll grow
Brenda Helbig 6 years ago
Ok attention getter...one year olds don't talk and two year olds aren't much better to express that thought !!!
Alison-Frances McKnight 6 years ago
my disabled son calls Moustaches 'Nose Beards' . He's not wrong <3
Alejandro Herrnsdorf-Sakellaridis 6 years ago
My then three years old daughter called my arm hair my 'feather'.
#10
Rhea Hambum 6 years ago
My (now 17 year old) used to call the Simpsons the "Symptoms". My dad thought this was hilarious!
Amanda Graham 3 years ago
My daugther said that as well and would go “do you have any other rememberies of when I was a baby?”
Laverne Haslett 6 years ago
One day when they were playing a game where they had to remember things...my grandaughter said "I hope I don't have to remember because my re-memberer is full."
#11
T Rex King 6 years ago
MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOre memes, please
Joannie Goulet 6 years ago
My daughter once told me she could "run as fast as a snake". Not sure what she meant by that!
Periwinkle Moonbiscuit 6 years ago
Have you never seen a snake move? Well they’re very fast!
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sfg4life515 6 years ago
That's speedy, when compared to someone like myself. I've got the reflexes of a three-times sloth...moving down the hallway at the high speed of one foot per 30 minutes.
Panda Kicki 6 years ago
Have you ever milked a cow and got yourself or the bucket whacked by a quick hoof? Kid knows the thruth of cows superpowers!
Meow 6 years ago
Unless it's a cow in Mario Kart moo moo meadows... *9yo expels stars but continues walking across the path*
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sfg4life515 6 years ago
I think I will call them gesundheits from now on. Thank you, little anonymous words angel.
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Anna Repp 6 years ago
At first I thought the kid is referring to those decorative fringe things you put over the bed frame. I have no idea what those are called so I'll call them "bed curtains" from now on :)
Susann Campbell 6 years ago
I do that all the time. The lights needs to be cold now. Instead of Out now.
Load More Replies... Monday 6 years ago
This is totally something a 5 year old would say. Little comedians at that age.
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the Lemon Queen 6 years ago
A) so it is decreed by law of all Internet, and B) for some reason my brain's first reaction was "Delicious"...
#16
KEBI Photography 6 years ago
guess I am a book looker now, totally like it more than reader and bookworm.
Katniss Everdeen 6 years ago
Book Dragon is cool too, but book lookers is cuter.
Load More Replies... Elizabeth Gardner 6 years ago
I agree that it is more descriptive and why not it is also true of many!
sharron lynn parsons 6 years ago
I am sure there are so many more that we haven't heard, so cute !!!
Kylee Alligood 6 years ago
When I read this I said it like an insult in my head and imagined a little kid runing around pointing "its a book looker, your a book looker"
#17
Ellie Ragsdale 6 years ago
I like that more than poke trees. Way more. From now on, i'll say owie flowers.
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Joannie Goulet 6 years ago
My son called it " fleur pique" when he was little, which roughly translate as "sting flower".
#18
graffitiwomen 6 years ago
Lol, that sounds like one of the weird new medications, like "Treat your diabetes with ECNALUBMA, ask your doctor for it today"...."side effects may include death, coma, heart attack, etc". I love your comment, it made me think! :D
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Clara Bay 6 years ago
I read this comment and realized I honestly couldn't remember the real name. Desperate, I googled "hospital car thingy." I'm ashamed.
Teddy O'Malley 6 years ago
I once forgot the word for it and called it a "moving hospital".
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Annabeth Chase 6 years ago
There’s 2 year olds like that and then there’s 2 year olds like my cousin who correct people o. The fact that babies aren’t in your belly, they’re in your uterus 😂😂
#19
Henry Walker 6 years ago
I love your name (mild anxiety! At the disco) and I love that the heart is a trans flag, I am also trans and that's really cool
sfg4life515 6 years ago
Leaves are now tree hair, and bark is tree skin. It's a cool idea, could serve as a reminder that trees are living entities.
Susann Campbell 6 years ago
They are smart at that age and in their ignorance, people correct them correct them. Roots are Tree Veins.
#20
T Rex King 6 years ago
*I walk up to the front desk of an airport* Hi, do you know where i can buy an F-22 Raptor? The fighter jet, not the dinosaur.
Ben Foreback 6 years ago
Here in Finland, airport is "lentoasema" which if you translate it literally is "flight station."
Ingrid Kelly 6 years ago
I lived in Florida and my son and family live in GA. When I visited, my son,he and my grand daughter would pick me up at the Atlanta airport. We later learned that she though Nana lived in the airport.
Ingrid Kelly 6 years ago
I used to live in Florida and my son and family in GA. My son wold pick me up at the Atlanta airport when I visited. My 3 year old grand daughter thought Nana lived in the airport.
M O'Connell 6 years ago
I heard American is retiring all their MD-80s... Maybe we should go down to the store and pick one up.
#21
the Lemon Queen 6 years ago
Well I finally have a name for it that makes sense! Before this I always called them "behing the knee" and when I was even younger, "the back of the middle of my leg". I was never this good at naming things :'D
Jessie Shea 6 years ago
That's perfect!! I have no idea what It's called, do you? ...I'll use leg pits
#22
My dog is my co pilot. 6 years ago
When I was a kid I used to call beer or wine daddy's pop. Pop is what the Irish call soda.
#23
danielw 6 years ago
I find elevators to be okay if I'm in it alone or just with family. but there's always one of two 'that guys' that seem to get on. The first is that guy that farts. The second is that guy that talks too much. both are awkward.
Load More Replies... Periwinkle Moonbiscuit 6 years ago
@Luis Milian Because they literally “lift” you to the next floor...are you being purposefully dense?
Judy Georgiou 6 years ago
When my daughter was little she did not want to go up on the calculator (escalator) but go into the box that turns you into something else (lift) instead!
Elizabeth Gardner 6 years ago
My daughter ( one of them) used to call them uppy downys . We all called them that for years.
#24
Kai 6 years ago
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.
Alex Bailey 6 years ago
That is the downside to not correcting children even if it is very cute.
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Dilly Millandry 6 years ago
School - it ruins a lot of the fun things. Either the teachers or other children will do it. Shame.
Yuheftobesomad 6 years ago
No it doesn't, it makes fun things less stupid
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Sumera Siddiqi 6 years ago
When my niece wants to have a peanut butter Sandwich, she asks her mommy for a peter bunny sandwich 😁
Abbey Impson 6 years ago
babysat a little boy that said bumgalls instead of gumballs and 30+ years later I still have to think of the correct way to say the word
Linda Hawke 6 years ago
Because I love squirrels and my daughter doesn't, she told her daughter the critters were called "evils". When my granddaughter started school, my chastened daughter had to finally correct that!
Corrina Laki 6 years ago
I’m 49 (and a half) and I call it that too! It’s been labeled as ‘Spoonerism’ and it’s meant to be caused by some brain problem. I don’t care. I love getting my mords wixed. It is now, and will forever be, Gubble Bum.
Abby Rexroth 6 years ago
When my cousin was little he couldn't pronounce his g's so he called it bubble dum and grandma was...wait for it...dam-ma. He's 53 now :).
#25
Ocean Eevee 6 years ago
...but Snoopy has to snoop around for food...he is a dog after all.
Load More Replies... Periwinkle Moonbiscuit 6 years ago
Snoopy is called “snoopy” because he’s in everyone’s business. I thought everyone knew that!
#26
the Lemon Queen 6 years ago
*slams hands down on desk* *flips table* *punches a hole in the wall* SO IT IS DECREED
AuntieCreed 6 years ago
My house and extended circle of friends all call them that too. I kinda thought everybody called them that.
boredmonkey 6 years ago
We call it that in our family my mom would say like "can I have your pizza bone" instead of beating crust.
#27
lindsey klee 6 years ago
I've called both the garbage disposal and the adams apple "goozle" for as long as I can remember
Marla Hale 6 years ago
My 2 year old granddaughter calls AFLAC "A*s Crack" when the Aflac commercial comes on TV...
Ellie Ragsdale 6 years ago
I'm laughing too hard at this! Does your granddaughter know what she means, or is she being am innocent kiddo?
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Saundra George 6 years ago
My friends father had a stroke, and had some aphasia, he was watching squirrels playing in the trees near the house, and struggled to figure out how to call attention to them. He finally said, "Look at those yard monkeys."
Betty Richardson 6 years ago
When my Grandson was little he would say "magic nation " for imagination.
sharron lynn parsons 6 years ago
As cute as some are, at some time to be corrected so friends won't laugh at him !!!
Hunter Showers 6 years ago
my baby brother called pineapple "spike fruit" I now call him little einstien
Natali Dorn 6 years ago
My 2 yes old daughter calls the mop, "sweep water" cuz it's sweeping with water
Abigail Coleman 6 years ago
When I was little I called zebras giraffes and the other way around my mom would get mad at me and correct me instantly
Audra Granath 6 years ago
When I was about 4 we were on a camping trip. We stopped at a hotel for the night (Not sure why) MY Mother was in the bathroom & my Father had to go. He told me to tell my Mom he would be in the john. When my Mom came out she asked where my Father is. I told him "He went to John's house" She looked at me & then to my brother who said "He went to the bathroom lol"
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Susan Libby 6 years ago
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.
Cheethra 6 years ago
Disasterpiece, I like that. And every child is certainly a happy child when they create a disasterpiece :)
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Withnail 6 years ago (edited)
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.
Csilla 6 years ago
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
Roxy Eastland 6 years ago
I love kaka-puff much more that poo-bang, even in English!
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Lanetta Bohanon 6 years ago
I am genuinely sad that there are only 26 posts instead of 77... I actually laughed out loud at some of these!
Trinity Holden 6 years ago
Gotta love the pun, probably unintended though lol
Load More Replies... FortnitePlayerGirl 6 years ago (edited)
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. 😑
Freya the Wanderer 6 years ago
According to my grandmother, my father renamed strawberries "star babies." They've been star babies to everybody in my family since.
Susan Libby 6 years ago
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.
Cheethra 6 years ago
Disasterpiece, I like that. And every child is certainly a happy child when they create a disasterpiece :)
Load More Replies... Withnail 6 years ago (edited)
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.
Csilla 6 years ago
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
Roxy Eastland 6 years ago
I love kaka-puff much more that poo-bang, even in English!
Load More Replies... Lanetta Bohanon 6 years ago
I am genuinely sad that there are only 26 posts instead of 77... I actually laughed out loud at some of these!
Trinity Holden 6 years ago
Gotta love the pun, probably unintended though lol
Load More Replies... FortnitePlayerGirl 6 years ago (edited)
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. 😑
Freya the Wanderer 6 years ago
According to my grandmother, my father renamed strawberries "star babies." They've been star babies to everybody in my family since.
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