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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as a white man i laughed very much at this - i gotta' remember this.
At school: "Mommy lost one of her strap-ons when she was chasing daddy last night..."
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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.
Well, she was not wrong! It's a big bandaid to keep all the blood
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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"
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!
🤣 Love the logical thinking. If only it was that easy!
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Well, I mean, you can't correct him. That's literally what they are.
My daughters when they were small called then mums big bandaids. I remind them of this now i have grand children
Sometimes it ISN'T invisible and ISN'T a fart... And all of your plans must be aborted very quickly.
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.
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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
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"
My brother calls the stuff you put in soft toys fluffing instead of stuffing. It makes perfect sense
Your brother? Heck, my whole family calls it that!
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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.
When I was a kid, my cousins dared me to always call a doors and gates a 'hinged barrrier' and I still do it.
When i was younger there were no “ Guinea pigs“ no no, they were Pigga Pigs. And that is what i have called them henceforth.
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
My daughter called her belly button her belly butt and the song Amazing Grace was Amazing Grapes.....
My son and I , still call it belly butts, we both know the correct term...does not matter....it is belly butts for life.
Load More Replies... My daughter called bagels donut toast and I think she should be in marketing now
My sister used to call strawberries wabbiebies and it was actually the cutest thing ever. She would come up to us and say, "Can I have a wabbiebie?" She also called biscuits "bikkits". I called princesses pancessss and elephants were ephenants.
I told my son, age 3, I "was at the end of my rope." He glared at me, "What rope? You don't have any rope. How can you be at the end of your rope without a rope?? My ex came home as my son stormed upstairs. Asked what is wrong, " Mommy doesn't have any rope. No rope!" muttering, "To be at the end of your rope, you need a rope." I wanted him upstairs in his room. Desired end result accomplished.
I used to tell my kids we were going to see a man about a horse everytime they asked where we were going. Finally one day they asked if we were ever going to see the horse we were going to see.
Load More Replies... I was sad the day my son stopped calling them waterlemons. Same letters only different.
Reminds me of an anecdote where my sister (3) asked if she could have "a sinning Minnie Mouse." She meant "singing", but boy was my mind assaulted with an unpleasant image.
My granddaughter told us that fog is just "lazy clouds, just laying around instead of being in the sky"
My son called it "yourcraft" when taking about someone else playing minecraft. We also call hamburgers "hangeyburgers"
when my nephew was 4/5 he called his testicles a wiener basket. he didn't have the correct terminology yet, but no one would correct him because it was too cute. according to him, baskets have handles and well...you can see where that one is going.
I am not sure others believe as I do, but I rarely correct my son when he makes a vernacular mistake...unless it offensive. I find it cute as hell and the world and time itself will correct his youthful mistakes. Currently, our neighbor has a new dog named "Scout", but my boy keeps calling it ""Snout" and I revel in delight of his mistake.
My son used to say "Obama" instead of "the bottom of." So he would say stuff like "I drank all my juice and now I can see Obama cup!" or "I can see Obama the pool!" He also used to say waterlemon and dinoroar.
One of my twin boys insisted clothes got clean after going thru in the Wetter and the Dryer
Decorated bagel -- donut with sprinkles ............. chicken from sheep --- lamb ................ "May I please have some water, cold and fresh?"
My son, 3, use to call computers "peters". Imagine the rage I felt when he said his stepfather has one and he let's him ook at it and play with it. It wasn't until he pulled me into his room where he had a Staples flyer laid out on the floor that I realized what he was saying. I was ready to call CPS, a divorce attorney and the police.
My kids could not get the hang of "hand sanitizer". To this day they all call it "Hansatizer"
I heard a kid call donut holes 'sugar meatballs', and I refuse to call them anything else
I always called loved moths when i was tiny and called them a ‘little nuff’ 😂
When my daughter was around 2 years old, she couldn't pronouse applesauce, so she would ask for some apple ass.
Parcark for carpark, hebiclopter for helicopter, peecuter for computer, and our favourite, Farmer Christmas
My daughter couldn't say vacuum it always sounded like f**k you. She always looked at me funny when I started laughing.
My son called Santa Claus "Santa Papa".....my only living grandpa had pure white hair and beard. I'm not unconvinced that between 2 and 5 he thought Santa Papa was just a very busy grandpa of his haha
When my sister was about two and unable to say the word vaccum cleaner she called it a fu**ing cleaner. None of us corrected her. My mum thought it was one of the funniest things she'd ever heard.
My son called fish's fins 'thins'. Indeed, they are thins to this day! He also couldn't pronounce his favourite dessert....melon remang (lemon merangue)
My daughter used to call all meat chicken. She would ask me what kind of chicken on her plate. I would tell her what it was for instance ham. She would say back I really like this kind of chicken. McDonalds was always called 'happy Donalds' because of the happy meal.
When I was a tot it was mouse tash for moustache, hotails for hotels and the municipal buildings were the munciples.
When my daughter was little she would call her big toe her "thumb" toe. We still call it that today and she is 23 now! LOL
My 7 yr old says screams instead of screens. I say - no screen time. He says - When can we have screams? Scream time back Lol
My 3yo daughter calls pick-up trucks hiccup trucks, and they will never be anything else again.
When my son was little he couldn't say remember he said damember which Is kinda a short form of do you remember I guess :)
My son calls hot sauce spicy and Tony’s season spicy. So every morning with his eggs he had to have spicy and the other spicy in his eggs.
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My little sister used to call wasps, ‘Wapses’ OH NO LOOK IT’S A WAPSE 🐝
When my son was around 5, called the back of your knee the "knee pit." He's 19 and we still call it that.
When my daughter was about 4 she told the teacher I give her packed loo cheese everyday took me a while before I realized she meant packed lunches lol
My daughter called bras 'chest pockets' and underpants and underwear became all inclusive 'underments'. She wasn't wrong and we still use those words 20 years later.
I used to take my twin boys every summer to Europe. Somewhere at age 4, they began calling the open mountain lift (ski lift) - FLYING BENCHES! Now they are 24 and it's still FLYING BENCHES in their memories about the Old country.
My brother calls Narwhals "Unicorn whales". That's better than what my sister and I called them when we were little, "Horny Whales"
Borrowed this from my friend and I love it: Breafix = Breakfast. Adorably delicious!
When my niece was around 4, she had two time-frames for the future. "in two weeks" for things coming up soon-ish, and "after later" for those coming up further down the road.
Both of my kids would say, "We're going to My-ami" instead of Miami. It was so stinking cute
A teacher had a collection of these, and eventually a child supplied a title for the file - the "Pullet Surprises."
Me taking extra breaths to try not to laugh too much late at night:
When he was 3, he called his dinosaur plushy a "dangersaurus." (Now, admittedly through my influence, he's "Rodney" as in "Rodney Dangersaurus." Although, it's closer to "Roddaknee")
My son used to call his miralax 'poop juice' and weedeaters 'weedy ators'. He used the correct term for them now but poop juice is still used at home occasionally. We were adopted by a dumped kitty during an ice storm. He has vision problems and has an extra large dog crate that he is in when we are gone. My daughter calls it a 'kitty jail' XD At least the cat doesn't act like it's a jail, he sits in there often even when the door is open.
My daughter calls Potato chips tomato chips and she calls sunscreen sunscream. We have pet chickens and she used to call them go-go's. i have no idea why but i was kinda sad when she actually started calling them chickens
My boy would call the bodily function we all have as a "butt burp"...aka passing gas, bronx cheer, cracking rats, air muffins, cutting mustard or farting. I like my kids wordage the best.
Why do people add something THEY think is cute and then say 'You're welcome". It might be very cute but stop it with the YOU'RE WELCOME. It's kind of annoying
People do that? I'd maybe say you're welcome in a sinister way after painting a disturbing mental image or something... Then again, English is not my first language so I don't know.
Load More Replies... 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
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"
My brother calls the stuff you put in soft toys fluffing instead of stuffing. It makes perfect sense
Your brother? Heck, my whole family calls it that!
Load More Replies... 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.
When I was a kid, my cousins dared me to always call a doors and gates a 'hinged barrrier' and I still do it.
When i was younger there were no “ Guinea pigs“ no no, they were Pigga Pigs. And that is what i have called them henceforth.
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
My daughter called her belly button her belly butt and the song Amazing Grace was Amazing Grapes.....
My son and I , still call it belly butts, we both know the correct term...does not matter....it is belly butts for life.
Load More Replies... My daughter called bagels donut toast and I think she should be in marketing now
My sister used to call strawberries wabbiebies and it was actually the cutest thing ever. She would come up to us and say, "Can I have a wabbiebie?" She also called biscuits "bikkits". I called princesses pancessss and elephants were ephenants.
I told my son, age 3, I "was at the end of my rope." He glared at me, "What rope? You don't have any rope. How can you be at the end of your rope without a rope?? My ex came home as my son stormed upstairs. Asked what is wrong, " Mommy doesn't have any rope. No rope!" muttering, "To be at the end of your rope, you need a rope." I wanted him upstairs in his room. Desired end result accomplished.
I used to tell my kids we were going to see a man about a horse everytime they asked where we were going. Finally one day they asked if we were ever going to see the horse we were going to see.
Load More Replies... I was sad the day my son stopped calling them waterlemons. Same letters only different.
Reminds me of an anecdote where my sister (3) asked if she could have "a sinning Minnie Mouse." She meant "singing", but boy was my mind assaulted with an unpleasant image.
My granddaughter told us that fog is just "lazy clouds, just laying around instead of being in the sky"
My son called it "yourcraft" when taking about someone else playing minecraft. We also call hamburgers "hangeyburgers"
when my nephew was 4/5 he called his testicles a wiener basket. he didn't have the correct terminology yet, but no one would correct him because it was too cute. according to him, baskets have handles and well...you can see where that one is going.
I am not sure others believe as I do, but I rarely correct my son when he makes a vernacular mistake...unless it offensive. I find it cute as hell and the world and time itself will correct his youthful mistakes. Currently, our neighbor has a new dog named "Scout", but my boy keeps calling it ""Snout" and I revel in delight of his mistake.
My son used to say "Obama" instead of "the bottom of." So he would say stuff like "I drank all my juice and now I can see Obama cup!" or "I can see Obama the pool!" He also used to say waterlemon and dinoroar.
One of my twin boys insisted clothes got clean after going thru in the Wetter and the Dryer
Decorated bagel -- donut with sprinkles ............. chicken from sheep --- lamb ................ "May I please have some water, cold and fresh?"
My son, 3, use to call computers "peters". Imagine the rage I felt when he said his stepfather has one and he let's him ook at it and play with it. It wasn't until he pulled me into his room where he had a Staples flyer laid out on the floor that I realized what he was saying. I was ready to call CPS, a divorce attorney and the police.
My kids could not get the hang of "hand sanitizer". To this day they all call it "Hansatizer"
I heard a kid call donut holes 'sugar meatballs', and I refuse to call them anything else
I always called loved moths when i was tiny and called them a ‘little nuff’ 😂
When my daughter was around 2 years old, she couldn't pronouse applesauce, so she would ask for some apple ass.
Parcark for carpark, hebiclopter for helicopter, peecuter for computer, and our favourite, Farmer Christmas
My daughter couldn't say vacuum it always sounded like f**k you. She always looked at me funny when I started laughing.
My son called Santa Claus "Santa Papa".....my only living grandpa had pure white hair and beard. I'm not unconvinced that between 2 and 5 he thought Santa Papa was just a very busy grandpa of his haha
When my sister was about two and unable to say the word vaccum cleaner she called it a fu**ing cleaner. None of us corrected her. My mum thought it was one of the funniest things she'd ever heard.
My son called fish's fins 'thins'. Indeed, they are thins to this day! He also couldn't pronounce his favourite dessert....melon remang (lemon merangue)
My daughter used to call all meat chicken. She would ask me what kind of chicken on her plate. I would tell her what it was for instance ham. She would say back I really like this kind of chicken. McDonalds was always called 'happy Donalds' because of the happy meal.
When I was a tot it was mouse tash for moustache, hotails for hotels and the municipal buildings were the munciples.
When my daughter was little she would call her big toe her "thumb" toe. We still call it that today and she is 23 now! LOL
My 7 yr old says screams instead of screens. I say - no screen time. He says - When can we have screams? Scream time back Lol
My 3yo daughter calls pick-up trucks hiccup trucks, and they will never be anything else again.
When my son was little he couldn't say remember he said damember which Is kinda a short form of do you remember I guess :)
My son calls hot sauce spicy and Tony’s season spicy. So every morning with his eggs he had to have spicy and the other spicy in his eggs.
Load More Replies... My little sister used to call wasps, ‘Wapses’ OH NO LOOK IT’S A WAPSE 🐝
When my son was around 5, called the back of your knee the "knee pit." He's 19 and we still call it that.
When my daughter was about 4 she told the teacher I give her packed loo cheese everyday took me a while before I realized she meant packed lunches lol
My daughter called bras 'chest pockets' and underpants and underwear became all inclusive 'underments'. She wasn't wrong and we still use those words 20 years later.
I used to take my twin boys every summer to Europe. Somewhere at age 4, they began calling the open mountain lift (ski lift) - FLYING BENCHES! Now they are 24 and it's still FLYING BENCHES in their memories about the Old country.
My brother calls Narwhals "Unicorn whales". That's better than what my sister and I called them when we were little, "Horny Whales"
Borrowed this from my friend and I love it: Breafix = Breakfast. Adorably delicious!
When my niece was around 4, she had two time-frames for the future. "in two weeks" for things coming up soon-ish, and "after later" for those coming up further down the road.
Both of my kids would say, "We're going to My-ami" instead of Miami. It was so stinking cute
A teacher had a collection of these, and eventually a child supplied a title for the file - the "Pullet Surprises."
Me taking extra breaths to try not to laugh too much late at night:
When he was 3, he called his dinosaur plushy a "dangersaurus." (Now, admittedly through my influence, he's "Rodney" as in "Rodney Dangersaurus." Although, it's closer to "Roddaknee")
My son used to call his miralax 'poop juice' and weedeaters 'weedy ators'. He used the correct term for them now but poop juice is still used at home occasionally. We were adopted by a dumped kitty during an ice storm. He has vision problems and has an extra large dog crate that he is in when we are gone. My daughter calls it a 'kitty jail' XD At least the cat doesn't act like it's a jail, he sits in there often even when the door is open.
My daughter calls Potato chips tomato chips and she calls sunscreen sunscream. We have pet chickens and she used to call them go-go's. i have no idea why but i was kinda sad when she actually started calling them chickens
My boy would call the bodily function we all have as a "butt burp"...aka passing gas, bronx cheer, cracking rats, air muffins, cutting mustard or farting. I like my kids wordage the best.
Why do people add something THEY think is cute and then say 'You're welcome". It might be very cute but stop it with the YOU'RE WELCOME. It's kind of annoying
People do that? I'd maybe say you're welcome in a sinister way after painting a disturbing mental image or something... Then again, English is not my first language so I don't know.
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