22 Words

Experiments in getting to the point.

What words have your kids coined that ought to be in common use?

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?

31 Comments »

  Zach Nielsen wrote @ March 26, 2008 at 11:45 am

My kids says Besert for desert. “We are going to have besert after dinner tonight”

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  Matt Donovan wrote @ March 26, 2008 at 11:50 am

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.

  chris bruno wrote @ March 26, 2008 at 12:17 pm

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.

  jamsco wrote @ March 26, 2008 at 12:25 pm

In the Jamsco household:
“Mon!” = “C’mon”
“Fickly” = “Quickly”
“Bo’s” = “Boy’s”

  Marc wrote @ March 26, 2008 at 1:56 pm

My grandson came up with “Handatizer” for the Purell sanatizer

  M. Taylor wrote @ March 26, 2008 at 2:20 pm

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!

  M. Taylor wrote @ March 26, 2008 at 2:21 pm

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.

  Barnabas wrote @ March 26, 2008 at 2:23 pm

My daughter asks us to “smile me” when she wants her picture taken. Not a new word, just new usage.

  Kellie wrote @ March 26, 2008 at 4:21 pm

Lucy says dindult for adult- I love it. I heard her telling Dustin the other day, “Mommy’s a dindult.”

  Jayson wrote @ March 26, 2008 at 4:53 pm

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!”

  Abraham Piper wrote @ March 26, 2008 at 5:01 pm

Way to raise your kid with standards, Jayson!

  Liz wrote @ March 26, 2008 at 5:10 pm

This past weekend we stayed at the “to-hel” - the word has stuck and now we all have trouble saying “ho-tel”. Thanks, Anders!

  Mom wrote @ March 26, 2008 at 5:20 pm

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.

  Leslie wrote @ March 26, 2008 at 5:39 pm

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.

  kathy wrote @ March 26, 2008 at 7:18 pm

containister = container + cannister… go figure ?

  Shannon wrote @ March 26, 2008 at 7:41 pm

We like the word “mucher” at our house. Also, Josiah is a big fan of ma-za-gines.

  Mike wrote @ March 26, 2008 at 8:21 pm

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.”

  Kellie wrote @ March 26, 2008 at 10:04 pm

Baouny. Or Bowny. It means “dumb” or silly. Every now and then Sam will just go, “BOWNY!!”

  Kendra wrote @ March 27, 2008 at 12:17 am

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.

  Melissa wrote @ March 27, 2008 at 7:08 am

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!

  gracedesign wrote @ March 27, 2008 at 8:38 am

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….

  Susan wrote @ March 27, 2008 at 8:38 am

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.”

  J. Evans wrote @ March 27, 2008 at 10:19 am

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. :)

  Molly wrote @ March 27, 2008 at 4:33 pm

Okay, I was laughing out loud reading all of those. I love the dog poop quote–unbelievable!

  jenna wrote @ March 27, 2008 at 7:25 pm

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.

  J DiLuzio wrote @ March 27, 2008 at 11:11 pm

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’!!!

  Shannon wrote @ March 28, 2008 at 7:44 pm

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.

  The Fat Triplets » A New Favorite Blog wrote @ April 1, 2008 at 6:38 pm

[...] Click here and here for a couple of great examples of pith. [...]

  shawnda wrote @ April 2, 2008 at 11:51 am

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! ; )

  Adoption Road wrote @ April 4, 2008 at 7:43 pm

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”

  Leslie wrote @ April 13, 2008 at 3:56 pm

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.

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