Mar 26, 2008
What words have your kids coined that ought to be in common use?
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Orison: It’s consterant.
Me: “Consterant”?
Orison: That’s when things’re neat.
Have your kids invented any words that are now in your vocabulary?
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My kids says Besert for desert. “We are going to have besert after dinner tonight”
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Poachlay = Chipotle. Not exactly the same as a new word, but that’s the only way I Chipotle now. And yes, we eat there _that_ often.
For some reason our older son started calling checking email “checking your beanstalk.” Now whenever one of us is checking our email or (looking at the computer at all) we call it checking our beanstalk. Not quite coining a word, but a strange use of language that has become common for us.
In the Jamsco household:
“Mon!” = “C’mon”
“Fickly” = “Quickly”
“Bo’s” = “Boy’s”
My grandson came up with “Handatizer” for the Purell sanatizer
I don’t know about MY kids coining phrases, but I now find that in the past twenty four hours I’ve got to rock the party! I’ve got to rock the party! I’ve got to rock the party!
With a little pink eye troubles these past few days, my daughter has liked to use “eye balls” to make her eyes feel better.
Yeah, that’s COTTON balls that she wipes her eyes with.
My daughter asks us to “smile me” when she wants her picture taken. Not a new word, just new usage.
Lucy says dindult for adult- I love it. I heard her telling Dustin the other day, “Mommy’s a dindult.”
Not so much a word or phrase, but a funny thing my son said the other day…
“I can wear this shirt again…it doesn’t have food or dog poop on it or anything!”
Way to raise your kid with standards, Jayson!
This past weekend we stayed at the “to-hel” – the word has stuck and now we all have trouble saying “ho-tel”. Thanks, Anders!
Don’t forget kezaption (that spelling doesn’t look right–guess I never wrote it before), coined by Karsten, originally for the unpleasant results of an explosive sneeze. That’s been around so long in the family that it’s usage has broadened to include any sort of explosive remains.
Around Christmastime, we always ride around looking at the lights in our neighborhood. When our daughter was 3, and we passed one house with a plethora of lights, she said, “Wow! That house has tonions of lights!”
We use “tonion” all the time now to describe a lot of something.
containister = container + cannister… go figure ?
We like the word “mucher” at our house. Also, Josiah is a big fan of ma-za-gines.
My son Ethan was drawing a picture of planets and spaceships and had a whole story that went along with the drawing. I said, you have a great imagination.” He replied, “Oh yeah, I imaginate all the time.”
My daughter Libby always gets hungry right before supper is ready. Sometimes we let her have a piece of fruit as an “appetizer.” So when she has an apple, she calls it an “appletizer.”
Baouny. Or Bowny. It means “dumb” or silly. Every now and then Sam will just go, “BOWNY!!”
This would be helpful for all parents of young children who are bound, at some point, to say something random (and very embarassing to the parent) very loudly in a public place:
Our 3 yr old, when he was 2, started calling his nipples “strawberries”.
Just tonight: “I can do a bamblance!” and proceeded to jump and spin at the same time. Completely made up–there’s no name for that move already, is there?
“Spoonk!” has been our favorite. No meaning, just a random, everything-word. Usually uttered by itself, when all it quiet, for no apparent reason. Sometimes, “Spoonkin’ it!”
And our favorite of our 20 mo. old daughter is “Bih-lih-lih” (sometimes a lot more “lihs”), which means “balloon”, “belly button”, and “open it”.
I still say, “Bah-joozy” for jacuzzi, after nannying a little girl years ago.
Emily: Mom, we got a new student today.
Me: Oh yeah?
Emily: yeah, they’re “Pork and cheese”.
Me: (trying not to laugh) “Pork and cheese?”
Emily: Yeah, they’re “Pork and cheese!”
Me: I think you mean Portuguese.
Emily: (giggling) Yeah, that it!
this is an awesome bunch of comments. i have no kids, but i thought i could add to some of the words my crazy father [sister & i] have come up with…
- we say “wonky” for a few things, i think its possibly real word…but i guess it means…gross…out of wack, etc
- “goomer” – nice, more polite word for stupid, idiot. i guess it means more of “i love the stupid in you”
- “doofer” or “doufer” – means thingie, whatcha-ma-call-it
- “cup of cha” means cup of tea, but thats something probably common for Liverpudlians [or however its spelled]
- “jarlids” is something brian said when referring to…jar lids…but he ran the word together and repeated it a million times.
haha, all my words are from older people….
Eh, I had to chime in… my son isn’t talking yet, but my nephew has come up with a few classics:
1. Uppie-downies: stairs.
2. Monorail: bluetooth headset from motorola (it looks like the monorail at disney)
3. Meatbulbs
4. Hamon: Isaac really likes Salmon. one night we were having ham for dinner and he said, “Mommy, can I please have more hamon?” she said, “ham. it’s just ham” and he said, “no, it’s hamon. look at it.”
Our 3 year old, Mia says many “words” that have yet to be published in the dictionary. Though I think the funniest thing in the world is her names for her imaginary friend’s. Our house is beginning to be overrun with orphan children who no one is able to see, except Mia.
Linglei
Hego
Paco
Sandy
Sanglah
Pretty sure we’ve got all ethnicities in the group. Kids are such blessings!
Oh, and I believe that Saturday before last, your son and my daughter were serenading the entire Beginners class with the Foundation Verse CD. Maybe they were edifying the brethren through song. :)
Okay, I was laughing out loud reading all of those. I love the dog poop quote–unbelievable!
one, more…i had this ringing in my head and then thought of your blog…one of miles’ favorite chants:
“geosupplication and you don’t know what to do; just call the firefighters, they’ll give you a clue.”
it dawned on me to ask him what “geosupplication” meant. he says it’s the son of a bad guy.
I told the twins that I nanny for that it was time to get out of the tub because their fingers were turning into ‘pr’unes-based on the funny look that I received(since they don’t know what prunes are!) I tried to explain again. This time I said that their fingers were getting wrinkly and we should get out of the tub now.
The next time when they were in the bathtub the little girl said to her brother,”We need to get out of the tub now because our finger are all ‘prinkaly’!!”
Now bathtime is over when we are ‘prinkaly’!!!
I forgot one…we also like to eat what is known as “nowy baws” at our house, coined by Tyndie, otherwise known as granola bars.
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OK…so you’ve gotten tons of new words here – love it!
pumpity-pump is when we are being “selfish”
and Jocho (like jocko) is a baby elephant
Amazing! I couldn’t come up with new words if I had to! ; )
Our 3 year old was watching a thunderstorm with awe. She stood there and said to the storm, “Peace, Be Still!” Then she paused and said, “I think it worked!” She really likes the story of Jesus calming the storm. She also tells us that running is good “extra-cise”
My seven year old just gave us a new one today. My husband opened a bottle of Mountain Dew and it “ricospilled” all over him.
As in ricochet.
My 3 year old girl asked me why she couldn’t have a kitten right now, and I said our very elderly cat would not like it – she would not want to share her space. Later I heard our daughter tell her dad, “Rebel doesn’t want to have a new kitten in the house. She would be “Jealerous”. We thought this was very cute and I tried to get her to repeat it to her grandad. I said “Why doesn’t Rebel want a kitten?” She said “She doesn’t want to share”. I tried again, wheedling. “But what would she BE if we got another kitty?”
She looked at me seriously and said “She would be dead”.
Hmm. Smarter than me.