What are your families made up words?

[mainegreen]

Around my home we have discovered that all odors are caused by microscopic things called 'smellecules'. There exist a variety of smellecules, including 'pittons' which are emitted by the body when exercising.

Anyone else have silly words like these?
What are they?

:shrug:

[tk2kewl]

1. flump

its what cats and dogs do when they are walking along and then just decide to flop down onto the floor gracelessly

[mainegreen]

4. Onomatopoeia words are great!

That's a good one!

[madinmaryland]

7. We had a cat we called "flumper"

We had nicked named him "heffalump", but when our daughter was little, she call him "hellaflum" which gotten shortened to "flump" and "flumper"

[tk2kewl]

8. cool

we used call are boys flumpers, not so much as a name but because they were always flumpping

[skygazer]

2. Smatter

If you have some sort of spot or stain on your clothes or upper lip, it's smatter.

Trousing - this is what babies do when they wave their legs in the air when on their backs. They're trousing.

There have to be about a million more but I don't really think about them until I say them.

[spiderpig]

3. Tussy

Synonymous with "yucky". As in "I don't want to eat that - it looks tussy."

[mainegreen]

40. Sounds like something a cat would think.

;)

[AlCzervik]

5. the pills you get on a sweater--we call them brizgeezs.

[mainegreen]

6. I'll have to tell Mrs MG that one.

She hates those things!

[NightWatcher]

9. umpteen- a number greater than ten but undefined aside from that

smidge- used in cooking to denote an amount that is slightly more than a pinch.

[BurtWorm]

10. Thaga

Exclamation when someone bends a finger or fingernail too far, or when a blackboard is scratched, or when aluminum foil is bitten on, or when any excrutiatingly uncomfortable thing happens.

It can also be applied to the effect on a compulsive personality of things being almost finished but not completely, such as a blackboard being nearly erased but with little lines of chalk remaining at the edges.

[mainegreen]

12. hey, that's a good word.

[malta blue]

11. Grismal

Used to describe grey, dismal days

[Silver Swan]

13. Wibble

Defined as fiddling with the ribbon trim on a blanket--often while sucking one's thumb.

Of course, this applies mostly to young children, but older people can wibble the seam of their jeans, etc., without the thumb-sucking.

Maybe nobody else ever wibbled?

Honest, when I grew up, I was surprised to find that wibble wasn't really a word!

[mainegreen]

14. My mom 'wibbles' her pant seams while driving.

Irritating as all can be.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

15. Froggy.

From a habit I had of adding superfluous "r"'s to words.

:P

[Ilsa]

24. "It's froggy outside" is one of ours too. nt

[Ilsa]

16. No onomatopoeia, but "poozawhakas" is underwear. nt

[mainegreen]

17. !!!!

:spray:

Thats a great one!

[Mrs.Matcom]

26. we call undies "jundas" short for 'jundawears' n/t

[Jamastiene]

18. Not sure on the spellimg of these words, but here goes:

Doodamahickeys
Whatchamacallits
Thingamabobs
Thingamacallits
Whatnots
Dooflangees
doodads

We also say "jiggle the handle" no matter what the malfunction of some appliance is; i.e. I can't get a certain channel on television to come in today for some reason. Have you tried jiggling the handle?

[SteppingRazor]

19. Vomilicious

A meal -- usually very rich and creamy -- that is absolutely delicious, but leaves one feeling nauseous.

[mainegreen]

21. Ah, a large French meal perhaps!

:D

[fudge stripe cookays]

20. Volups.

Our word for breastages.

When I was about 12, I'd been reading too many of mom's romance novels. Came out in the kitchen, stuck out my (as yet nonexistent) chest, and said "Dad, am I voluptuous?"

He peered over the top of his paper, pointedly at the mosquito bites and said, "You need to get some volups first."

It stuck. :D

[Mrs.Matcom]

27. BWHAHAHAH!!! I love it!!! n/t

[fudge stripe cookays]

32. Reminds me of my dad.

So I still say it.

Make sure to put the accent on the SECOND syllable. vo-LUPS'.

:D

[Mrs.Matcom]

41. would you mind if I passed the story onto

my family?? They would LOVE it!!! I used to read those novels too. My dad referred to them as "Bodice Rippers" because someone's bodice was always getting ripped off, to expose said, volups!!! :rofl:

[fudge stripe cookays]

42. Shur!

Dad is sitting up there chuckling to himself right now.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

22. When the spouse is snoring, all you have to do is whomp on the bed.

This act is similar to that of a fish flopping around out of water.

[mainegreen]

39. Wow, your really nice!

When I snore Mrs MG doesn't whomp the bed, she whomps me!
:rofl:

[Javaman]

23. Eeeeeeeee!!!

For something that is just so cute there are no words for it.

As in: that is just so Eeeeeee!

[mitchum]

25. Hitlerrific

[otherlander]

29. can you use it in a sentence?

:P

[mitchum]

47. george w bush is hitlerrific!

[mainegreen]

35. Hitlerrific sounds like a real Hitlerrific word.

:7

[otherlander]

28. nine-nine

means wine.

[mainegreen]

36. How'd that come about?

Sounds interesting!

[otherlander]

60. Just what I called it when I was a baby.

Music was lala. :P

[otherlander]

64. Just what I called it when I was a baby.

Music was lala. :P

[JCMach1]

30. my niece gets 'lemoncholy' from time to time...

much worse than melancholy... she turns 5 this year...

[av8rdave]

31. Whenever I've consumed a drink, I say it's been "drinken"

Mrs. av8rdave insists it's not a real word. I reply that I'm thinking of running for President.

[mainegreen]

38. That's a funny comeback.

Perhaps because I have drinken many a drink tonight.
:party:

[av8rdave]

50. I've drinken a couple myself

how nice to actually have a weekend off!

[Critters2]

33. For some reason, my sister and I have code words for candy

M&Ms we shorten to just "Ms"

Andes Creme de Menthes, a family favorite, are "CDMs"

We are also connoisseurs of certain chocolate Easter bunnies. She called me yesterday to tell me that "Li'l Traveler" is available at Dollar Generals in her area, but no sign, yet, of any Busy Bigby's. My secretary heard my end of the call: "No Bigbies anywhere? Are you sure?" Handed her quite the chuckle.

[MistressOverdone]

34. The French slang

in Alsace (family heritage) for buttocks is bo-bo. In this part of America, it is "butt." My kids called it (and still do) bo-butt.

Also, we call pacifiers "yubbies" and favorite blankets "woobies." And a request for a quick nurse (as in breastfeeding) is "boo-boo?"

[Shine]

37. We call our daughter "the noticer" b/c she's incredibly observant

I am the "smellecer" b/c I notice how things smell. I can't remember anything else off the top of my head, but I know there are other such silly words.

lol.

[Qanisqineq]

43. switcheroo or switcheroo-er

that's what my dad always called the remote control when I was a kid. I'm sure there are others but that's the only one I can think of.

[Solly Mack]

44. decommenah?

for - you understand? (long story that involves the chance discovery of a dead body, decommenah?)

We use it to describe a situation that can't really be explained - so you say decommenah to convey that the situation really can't be explained...only experienced - and then only explained to those who have experienced it - but you don't have to explain it to someone who has also experienced it...they already know

So you would only answer back - Yes, I decommenah - if you also know the experience and have no further need for explanantion...which you wouldn't get anyway, since you wouldn't have the need

but if you answer - No, I don't decommenah - then you still wouldn't get an explanation since you never had the experience so you wouldn't understand

and if you ask us "what does decommenah mean?"

We would just laugh and say "nothing"


Yes, our funny words have rules. :)

[mainegreen]

63. Interesting.

I don't think there is an english word for that. You should submit your word to a dictionary. I seems handy!

[Solly Mack]

66. I feel already as if I've violated the rules of the word

just by posting it :)

but it is handy!

[distantearlywarning]

45. Tiffy.

My husband and I call spoiled dumb girls "Tiffies". Think: the type of girls that go on that MTV show Sweet Sixteen. Girls that are more interested in hair, makeup, and wheedling BMW's out of daddy than they are in actually, say, learning to read.

[boobooday]

46. Tilo means small

Boojsche means 'cute' like the sound you make when chucking a baby under the chin, or petting a puppy.

I really like 'smellecules'

[1gobluedem]

48. Becept = except

Unelse = unless
Grumple stones = Brussels sprouts
KaPLAN means 'plan;' came into being when now 13 year old boy thought that's how Kaplan was pronounced (reading fireworks signs).

[libnnc]

49. Stranlakes = Pancakes

Streppus = Yeppus = affirmative

Strold = Cold

I'm Strungry = I'm hungry




--"Are you strungry?"

--"Streppus"

--"Would you like some stranlakes?"

--"As long as they're not strold"

We're pretty sad...

[mainegreen]

62. I imagine you must confuse guests!

:rofl:

[ThatsMyBarack]

51. My dad likes to say:

"You Spike Leed it! You did the right thing!"

[mykpart]

52. My cousin called her backside "cazzazza."

My brother referred to deodorant as "nobo." He even made up a jingle for it: N-O-B-O, N-O-B-O.

When you take a spill on your tricycle, you tump it over.

And something that is built or put together half-assed is "McGivered."

[Manifestor_of_Light]

53. lots of em

The plural of glove is "Gleeve".

When you want everyone to get up and go out the door, you say "Please un-ass the couch".

When you leave someplace you "disenfuculate" it.

Funny smelling chemicals are called "nastomers". That is a play on the word "isomers".

A generic word for something, like "doohickey" is "snergel". Said with the G like a J.


You've heard of WYSIWYG - what you see is what you get. There are other acronyms related to computers.

WYSBNFRTWYG -- Whizzy Bonfire Twig - What you see bears no fucking resemblance to what you get.

WYSBOPRTWYG -- Whizzy Bopper Twig -- What you see bears only passing resemblance to what you get.



Afro-Tech (for creative engineering with duct tape) is probably politically incorrect.

[Spirochete]

54. Cryminatly

not sure how to spell it, but it's an exclamation my mother used, meaning "for gosh sakes","golly", or "holy shit". Someone she did not like was a "shmoe". She had a couple others, but I don't remember them right offhand.

[bridgit]

55. donkey shit = danke shein...

[mainegreen]

61. And how often does that one come in handy?

:D

[bridgit]

65. don't know many Americans of German descent, eh?

:)

[Bzzzz]

56. Oh, Nerts...n/t

[trof]

57. I-HAPPY-NICE-I

A childhood chum was writing a letter to his dad who was in Germany during WW II.
He tried to use the word "happiness", but with his limited spelling ability it came out "ihappinicei".
Since then when something good happens, usually something unexpected or serendipitous, one of us will look at the other and just say "I happy nice I".

[QMPMom]

58. Presactly = Precisely + Exactly.

[Xipe Totec]

59. Perfumigator

the gizmo that squirts perfume into the air to hide stink in public bathrooms.

[electron_blue]

67. cool! I love that word. In our family, we have "disastrophe", which is probably

self-explanatory. My little sister made it up when she was about 4 yrs old. It stuck.

[Scout]

68. spooge

that spitty/hairy/mucousy mix that flew off our dog Pete's jowls when he would shake his head, or would end up smeared on your pant leg when he'd rested his chin...