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Children’s creativity knows no bounds. And it’s not just them having much fewer limitations on a social and psychological level, but also the fact that they think differently altogether.
And this different thought has spawned a Twitter thread where people share instances of kids calling various things names that either sound similar, but are actually different, or calling them a completely different thing that makes much more sense not just to them, but to us adults as well.
It’s things like deodorant being called armpit makeup or a freezer being called an ice cupboard.
So, take a look at our neatly curated list of some of the best tweets of kids calling things other things that are actually hilariously entertaining below! And why not leave an upvote and a comment on the submissions you enjoyed the most.
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#1
Raven DeathShade 4 years ago
My 3 year old sister calls high heels "Tippy-toe shoes". I love it when she comes in my room, picks up my boots, and goes "here are your tippy-toe shoes, Raven."
Alexis 4 years ago
That is really cute! Now I am tempted to call them tippy-toe shoes too xD
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HammerzToe 4 years ago
When my son was just learning how to talk I wold say "Bless you." after a sneeze. He started saying "Bess you" to me not long after. Just too cute the things kids say.
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Pamela Scott 4 years ago
When we went to Carlsbad Caverns our daughter kept wanting to give me heart attacks cause she tried to lean over the sides of the walkway to see the vampires
#3
Tassenküchlein168 4 years ago
Aww! I will! In German it’s called like Push Window or Slide Window. From now on I’m gonna call "Himmelsfenster" 😍
#4
Moo Moo Futch 4 years ago
I'm 40 and I call them 'Tramapolines' and 'Trabopolines' which was something Homer Simpson excitedly exclaimed after looking at the free ads in his local paper. "Oooooh the men's shelter is giving away sixty soiled mattresses".
Kerry Howitt 3 years ago
My eldest granddaughter used to call them bouncelines. She's 14 now, but I still call them bouncelines
#5
Clare Hodgson 4 years ago
My 3 yr old son says "Last day" for anything in the past..."I went to the park last day". They would be the perfect friends.
Tess the ferret 4 years ago
My sister says next day not tomorrow. A perfect trio🤣
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Terri Owens 4 years ago
That's a great way for us all to "stay in the present" and live mindfully. Smart kiddo!!
Emmy Dumont 4 years ago
My daughter says tomorrow tomorrow instead of the day after tomorrow. And I don't want no one to ever correct her.
BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
I love it! It makes everything so much more dramatic sounding!
Brandi VanSteenwyk 4 years ago
I would have to adopt it too. "This day" from the mouths of babes just sounds so cute and innocent. For some reason, much more than the normal "today". And God knows that preserving the innocence of children is always the right thing.
Raven DeathShade 4 years ago
My siblings do this XD. Also, while growing up, my sisters and I had special days for some of the week. Shower day (Saturday), church day (Sunday), pizza day (Friday), and choir day (Wednesday).
Load More Replies... Melanie Melancon 3 years ago
I love this! How do I upvote such wisdom? Awesome understanding of time and space...
#6
A B C 4 years ago
I'm in my 30s and still try to keep my diarrhea secret. It doesn't concern anybody but me!
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Daniel Atkins 4 years ago
Which means one day she might say to some one today I fed white bred to the honkeys and without context would be one of the funniest sentences ever uttered.
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
I’m old enough to remember when that word had a totally unrelated meaning.
Moo Moo Futch 4 years ago
Be careful who she says it around though as they might take offence (goodness knows how we as a society are offended over the smallest things now).
Lori VVall 3 years ago
Hahaha! We call Canada geese honkers. I will now start calling all the white, domestic geese honkeys, too!
#8
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago (edited)
At school: "Mommy lost one of her strap-ons when she was chasing daddy last night..."
A Cat Named Dragon 4 years ago
In the US, we used to say that also. Older people my mom’s age still do : )
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Erica Cochrane 4 years ago
once at a friends house he started talking about his nightie, and we were all confused. we were like 'we didn't know you wore a nightie to bed' (btw, nightie in scotland at least is like a nightdress). we had no problem with him wanting to wear one, just surprised. then we realised he meant a dressing gown.
Lori VVall 3 years ago
Also, flip-flops used to be called thongs, but now that refers to underwear.
#9
Sarah Baldwin 4 years ago
So does my 4 year old son, it's so stinking cute!
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Xan Maranya 4 years ago (edited)
My toddler granddaughter thought they looked like little suns, so.... sun flowers.
Beth Schaut 4 years ago
My kids all did this too! They also, and still do, call tongs “chicken pliers”.
Eithne Griffiths 4 years ago
The boys that lived across from us,liked to come to our lawn because we had all the pretty yellow flowers and they didn't.
A Cat Named Dragon 4 years ago
I have never understood why people call them weeds, as if they aren’t wanted?…
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Santhe van der Meulen 4 years ago
That's so cute! In Dutch they are called "horse flowers" (paardenbloemen) but wish flowers is so much better!
A Cat Named Dragon 4 years ago
Horse flowers is cute too : ) because horses eat them? My grandmother was born in Italy but moved to the USA. She used to walk outside to collect wild dandelion greens for frittatas. Delicious!
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Carmen Sandiego 4 years ago (edited)
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Debra Trayler 4 years ago
When she was little, my daughter called deodorant "odour don't" and it's been that way ever since!
Susan Bosse 4 years ago
When my son was around 5, he called the back of the knee his "knee pit." He's 19 and that's all we've called it since.
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BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
Based on their age I'm going to assume calling them that wasn't completely accidental...
Raven DeathShade 4 years ago (edited)
Not completely accidental? Entirely on purpose! 13 year olds are idiots XD. (This observation is based on myself, two of my little sisters, and the 5 other 13 year olds I have come across. People seem to think I'm not making this observation due to experience).
Load More Replies... Caroline Carney 4 years ago
I know this is weird... but why did my mind go to those scented markers when I read "edibles" which are anything but edible... i'm off to scold my weird brain.
Raven DeathShade 4 years ago
I'm a tad older than that, and I need it cause we have stupidly loud ducks that like to scream at 2 a.m and keep me awake..."what if, this time, they're actually in danger?"
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#12
Varga Bennó 4 years ago
Actually the are in fact called 'rainbrella' in Hungarian (esernyő, 'eső' being rain and 'ernyő' being umbrella).
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Monic Krugell 4 years ago
In my language there is a saying that goes - "In die mond van die suigeling sal jy die waarheid vind" - directly translated - You will find the truth from the mouth of an infant. - I don't eat eggs and think that butt fruit applies as one of those truths.
#15
Brandi VanSteenwyk 4 years ago
So... Am I right in thinking that she believes the scrunching up in front leads to the appearance of a long, tubular device being hidden behind the zipper area?
earringnut 4 years ago
Perhaps, quite luckily, this girl found out she is a girl sooner in life than most trans girls.
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Pheebs 4 years ago
The term she’s searching for is “jeans d**k”. I remember that one from my tweens/teens. 😂
Raven DeathShade 4 years ago
"I can see your Toner through your jeans!" "That's my d**k."
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Russell Ellwardt 4 years ago
"Wiener", after the city of Wien, Vienna = the sausages "Weiner", from German: "weinen" = to cry No idea why every second person in the English speaking world misspells it.
#16
Tassenküchlein168 4 years ago
Tell her that you told us and someone from Syrup said "God bless you, little girl!"
Tassenküchlein168 4 years ago
And please, teach her that "Syrup" isn’t a country! 😁
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Tassenküchlein168 4 years ago
Boah, ppl who downvoted this: If you don’t believe - nobody forces you!
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Carlotta Müller 3 years ago
I don't like this. I don't like my home continent be called "syrup". Because I dislike syrup!
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BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
Kind of unrelated, but I used to do this thing where I would scrape the bottom of my shoes on any gravel I saw and say I was, "sharpening my shoes." It probably made my shoes wear out super fast though lol
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Mad Dragon 4 years ago
My daughter points out that when you brush your teeth, you are cleaning part of your skeleton.
#20
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
Circumstances? Skinny dipping, presumably? I don't get it.
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Philly Bob Squires 4 years ago
I'm not skinny anymore so I guess it's out of the game plan for me... Maybe "chunky dunkin?"
Andrei Marentette 4 years ago
the reason why skinny dipping is wrong is if you put a fat person in the pool, it will have too be called fat dipping
Tassenküchlein168 4 years ago (edited)
Can someone please explain? Like YoChicken I have no clue what skinny dipping is. GT translates "skinny diving" - and something tells me this is not about thin people diving (naked).
#21
Nannychachi 4 years ago
I can't always remember the neighbors names so I just call them Old Fluharty (in one house) and his son and DIL in the house next to them are Young Fluharty and Tanktop Fluharty because she wears the same razor back tank everytime she mows grass.
#22
Yvonda Marie Levings 4 years ago
Greetings from Arkansas Black Diamond or Yellow Meat are the best
#23
iblowsheep 4 years ago
i don't like coffee so to me bean dirt is an accurate way to describe the taste.
sam puckett 4 years ago
I called coffee grounds "cocoa bean insides" and Everytime my mom made coffee I would say " those poor cocoa beans sacrificed themselves for you, you better finish that coffee"
sam puckett 4 years ago
*sigh* and then I stopped. I should pick that habit back up
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Kelly Hartle 4 years ago
My grandma was a terrible cook--I used to refuse to eat her "dirty potatoes"--they were actually burnt.
indiecognition 4 years ago
My little brother calls black bean chocolate cake "beanbutt cake." He's 35.
Torhild Hansen 4 years ago
Our youngest son called sweetener tablets tea crumbs, since he saw me put them in my tea cup.
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#25
Kelly Hartle 4 years ago
A friend of my parents and I once got into an argument whether they were "mitts or gubs."
#26
Gwyndall 4 years ago
I was so disappointed when my family arrived at the movie theater to see "Star Horse"... there were no horses!!
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago (edited)
My older brothers were good for this. They came up with Gunkus tree for Christmas tree, and bitter sippers for bedroom slippers. My oldest brother was born in 1942. Back then the old folks would tell someone who was getting overexcited “don’t get your bowels in an uproar”. Well, one day, when John was about 4 or 5, he was in the backyard playing with his friends, when my mother heard him loudly telling them “don’t get your balls in a drawer!”
A B C 4 years ago
Don't get your balls in a drawer is VERY sound advice, though.
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#27
Brandi VanSteenwyk 4 years ago
LOOOOOVE IT!!! Reminds me of a human "talk to text" program. I can just picture the little one (having heard mom refer to a "clementine") attempting to decipher and learn the word that quickly escaped mom's lips without hesitation in order to know what to request next time.
Janice Hazeldine 3 years ago
We always called them baby oranges. I was in my 20's before I realized they had another name!
#28
Vicky Z 4 years ago
Well, she was not wrong! It's a big bandaid to keep all the blood
Load More Replies... Monic Krugell 4 years ago
I recently had to explain periods to my young sons due to the youngest not knocking when he comes into the bathroom. So the other day in the shops the youngest again was like "Mommy don't you need some of these "special week bandages"
Touch Connors 4 years ago
I could never understand stand why my mom needed to continually buy boxes. One period a month + 10/12 pads in this box = You're good for a whole year!
glowworm2 4 years ago
🤣 Love the logical thinking. If only it was that easy!
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Walter Brameld 4 years ago
Well, I mean, you can't correct him. That's literally what they are.
Deborah Alcock 4 years ago
My daughters when they were small called then mums big bandaids. I remind them of this now i have grand children
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Vermillion Ace #443 4 years ago
O.o The flavors do have the colors of notable lightsabers, encourage the connection some more. (...make up one for pink!)
sam puckett 4 years ago
I like the red jolly ranchers. And I have a red light saber.i am pure evil... May the 4th be with you...
Carol Simpson 4 years ago
She may have synesthesia. There are certain colors that do that to me. One color of blue "tastes like electricity."
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#32
qwerty 4 years ago
Well, the word avocado is derived from the Nahuatl word for "testicle" so cockamole isn't too far off!
Brandi VanSteenwyk 4 years ago
OH... YOU are just a fun person!! Will you be my friend??
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Kim Salyer Saunders 3 years ago
When my daughter was young she told the waiter she didn’t want any Guatemala sauce.
Yvonda Marie Levings 4 years ago
Thanks!! I'm gonna go to Taco Bell order a Soft Taco with extra Cockamole bahahahaha
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Withnail 4 years ago
Ice cupboard is the literal translation of the Afrikaans word for fridge: Yskas.
Libby Tailor 4 years ago
In Hungarian, at first it was called ice cupboard. Now we call it cooling cupboard.
Camilla Marthedal Knudsen 4 years ago
It's a cooling cupboard in Danish too. Køleskab.
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Sanna Marilka 3 years ago
Maybe you were a Finn in your previous life? Though it's the fridge that translates to that in Finnish. Jääkaappi, ice cupboard.
#35
Brandi VanSteenwyk 4 years ago (edited)
Sometimes it ISN'T invisible and ISN'T a fart... And all of your plans must be aborted very quickly.
BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
Imagine the parents reaction the first time he said that lol
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#37
sam puckett 4 years ago
I called it a butt orphis. I probably shouldn't have said it in public
#38
BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
My sister used to say yesterday for anything that happened in the past. If she was talking about something that happened a year ago, she would say yesterday day I did this.
Mary Ellen Donahue 3 days ago
I still do that, only it is because I am old and forgetful! :)
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#39
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
Cucacumber. I just remembered my niece used to say turkaloise instead of turquoise.
Robert T 4 years ago (edited)
My gf can never remember the word for toes, and calls them foot fingers. Apparantly it isn't a different word in Polish.
Brooke Ochoa de Rueda 3 years ago
My 10 year old calls knees and ankles, leg and feet elbows. 🤦🏻♀️
#40
Melody Southcombe 3 years ago
When my son was 3 he used to say "please don't send me to dayscare" !
Kristen Webster 3 years ago
When my son was 3ish he worked with a speech therapist. One day they were testing his vocabulary to see how he said most 3 yo words. They got to a picture of pajamas and he proudly said "JAMAMAS". She looked at me and asked if that was something I would like them to work on with him. I replied "No thank you". He is in his 20s now, we still call them jamamas.
Cindy Barnes 3 years ago
Our Grandson, 20 months, loves popcorn. We give him a few broken up pieces in a cup.....it is now known as "cupcorn"
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Brandi VanSteenwyk 4 years ago
Why is "spicy balls" unacceptable? My mind is far from clean so I see what everyone is referencing but I can't comprehend anything nasty immediately coming to mind when a CHILD says "spicy balls".
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Brandi VanSteenwyk 4 years ago
I'd compromise while confusing the kiddo by complicating things: Brownies are now known as Square Hole-free Donuts.
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Katie Lutesinger 4 years ago
Just don't try dipping 'em in caramel. You probably won't like the results very much.
Brandi VanSteenwyk 4 years ago
Giving her the benefit of the doubt, the stems are hidden and even an ability to read doesn't assure that you will immediately see "tomatoes" in such small font.
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Phil DeBlanc 4 years ago
That really depends on where you live, but in the US, yes.
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memyselfandI 4 years ago
There’s actually a town in California called Yreka, that’s what I thought of 🙂
Auntriarch 4 years ago
My brother asked my mother where was his geria. He'd heard me speak of Nigeria, thought I'd said my geria, and wondered why he didn't have one
Cath Homer 4 years ago
My parents were holidaying in Miami when we were small and my younger brother used to tell people they were in Their-ami
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Got Myself 4 Dwarves 4 years ago
My son couldn't say popcorn when he was 3/4, so he'd be standing in the cinema loudly requesting some cockporn and sweeties
Marsha Fredell 4 years ago
I was telling my 3 year old nephew to not touch spiders. There was a black widow on the door and I explained they can make you very sick. When he went home, he told his mom..."Mom never touch a Black Weirdo or you might die"
ella 4 years ago
My brother calls the stuff you put in soft toys fluffing instead of stuffing. It makes perfect sense
Raven DeathShade 4 years ago
Your brother? Heck, my whole family calls it that!
Load More Replies... Katie Lutesinger 4 years ago
When my sister and I were kids, Dad would always have Program Files open on his computer. Sister, not knowing what it was called but seeing a long list of file names, dubbed it "The Big Listy Thing". Dad immediately changed the shortcut's name, and from then on it was The Big Listy Thing to everybody.
AnimalsRuleHumansDrool 4 years ago
When I was a kid, my cousins dared me to always call a doors and gates a 'hinged barrrier' and I still do it.
HoneyBun Arts 4 years ago
When i was younger there were no “ Guinea pigs“ no no, they were Pigga Pigs. And that is what i have called them henceforth.
Mish Harenberg 4 years ago
my younger brother when he was a toddler had a few that i can remember; street cleaner = tooth brush truck. soft drink/soda = bubble juice (i still use this haha) and pads = mum nappies
Got Myself 4 Dwarves 4 years ago
My son couldn't say popcorn when he was 3/4, so he'd be standing in the cinema loudly requesting some cockporn and sweeties
Marsha Fredell 4 years ago
I was telling my 3 year old nephew to not touch spiders. There was a black widow on the door and I explained they can make you very sick. When he went home, he told his mom..."Mom never touch a Black Weirdo or you might die"
ella 4 years ago
My brother calls the stuff you put in soft toys fluffing instead of stuffing. It makes perfect sense
Raven DeathShade 4 years ago
Your brother? Heck, my whole family calls it that!
Load More Replies... Katie Lutesinger 4 years ago
When my sister and I were kids, Dad would always have Program Files open on his computer. Sister, not knowing what it was called but seeing a long list of file names, dubbed it "The Big Listy Thing". Dad immediately changed the shortcut's name, and from then on it was The Big Listy Thing to everybody.
AnimalsRuleHumansDrool 4 years ago
When I was a kid, my cousins dared me to always call a doors and gates a 'hinged barrrier' and I still do it.
HoneyBun Arts 4 years ago
When i was younger there were no “ Guinea pigs“ no no, they were Pigga Pigs. And that is what i have called them henceforth.
Mish Harenberg 4 years ago
my younger brother when he was a toddler had a few that i can remember; street cleaner = tooth brush truck. soft drink/soda = bubble juice (i still use this haha) and pads = mum nappies
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