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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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A former roommate once designed and had made for him a custom piece of furniture that served certain needs he had. Not knowing what to call it, everyone in our circle referred to it as the "thingie".
When I was little, my mother made me wear pajamas with a fold-down button-up flap in the rear. I called them "pajamas with a reason" -- for no particular reason, if you'll pardon the expression.
Have you used a common everyday word to refer to things quite different from what most people would imagine upon hearing the word?
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An immersion-blender is a whizzy-whizz - or is that more obvious than you were thinking of?
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We use the Hawaiian pidgin term "da kine" a lot: it means roughly "and things like that". So the "table da kine" would be all the things that you need to set the table, unless it means the table itself and the chairs that go with it.
"Whizzer" gets applied to many items that involve rotary motion, such as the string trimmer, food processor, cordless drill, etc.
Actually we take a lot of liberties with language, but perhaps one of the most opaque to an outsider would be "#6". It seems that I kept forgetting things when I left for work, so I had to develop a count to make sure I had everything. There were 6 items: keys, phone, breakfast, lunch, computer, and, the last thing as I head out the door, a goodbye kiss.
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Personally, I "nuke" food several times a week. It's a nice usage. ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
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jedijudy
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In handbell ringing, we have several terms to describe certain ringing techniques. These real words (martellato, ring touch, toll swing, etc.) for some reason don't stick in the minds of some of our ringers! So, they have their own terms that have insidiously wormed their way into our rehearsals..."whack" is a favorite, as is "thunk".
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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In the old days of proprietary word processing systems, there was one that employed a particular combination of keys to start a new paragraph. I always referred to the combination as a "squirt", which often resulted in embarrassed snickers by the ladies present in the room.
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Jengie jon
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the "three finger salute" was used at work, I am sure wider as it was such good. I presume a take on "two finger salute" but it actually refers to hitting the <ctrl>, <alt> and <del> keys at the same time on Microsoft computer when it was playing up. It has fixed many a problem in its time.
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BessLane
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We often have bread and with it for supper. That's a piece of bread and whatever you can find to go with it...
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Rather embarrassing, as we have a whole slang system for different kinds of stuff. For example, sandwich is samblidge, pyjamas are Baracks, tea is ripples, and so on. I suppose they are based on children's corruptions, and awful jokes, and bits of slang, well, here comes the second childhood.
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Originally posted by BessHiggs:
We often have bread and with it for supper. That's a piece of bread and whatever you can find to go with it...
We sometimes have Iffit meals. If it's in the cupboard we can have it. If it isn't we can't.
[tangent] Reminds me of some health and safety training we had last week. Health and Safety Officer: "Now, do you all understand the instructions about when to use the fire extinguishers?" Employee: "Yes. If there's a fire we use them. If there isn't we don't." ![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif) [/tangent]
Nen - grilled salmon not Iffit for supper this evening.
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(Funny fact about the thread title: chamar means 'to call' in Portuguese.)
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ArachnidinElmet
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Rather than iffitt, we have stuff: assorted leftovers or bits and bobs from the fridge, "Mm, stuff for tea tonight".
I find 'thingie' serves for most objects (or people) in a pinch.
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Jengie jon
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We regularly had "Wait and See" pudding as kids; it was really quite remarkable, sometimes it looked tasted like Instant Whip* and other times like yesterdays pie.
Jengie
*This is the term my brain comes up with for a instant pudding that you whipped up with water NOT Milk.
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We have glop and stuff. Glop is something new made from left-overs, stuff is just a mixture of bits and pieces of things on your plate. Also left-overs but in their original form.
When my son was 4 he called moths mops, to this day the whole family still says mops for moths, which is funny because we did not use baby talk with our children and had them learn correct wording for things.
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Penny S
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My mother's mother had what she called hasty pudding, which differed from any sort I have read about. It was flour boiled with milk and some sugar (I assume the sugar).
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Amorya
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Things you stir food while it's cooking are referred to as pashers.
One of my ex-housemates once lived with someone who had labelled his kitchen equipment: written on the handle of a wooden spoon was P. Asher. Thus the word was born.
Thing is, there isn't one single word that encompasses wooden spoons, spatulas, wok tools, and other such things. Hence pasher is a really useful term. You can also back-form it into a verb, so the act of using one is 'pashing'.
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Piglet
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Originally posted by jedijudy:
In handbell ringing ..."whack" is a favorite, as is "thunk".
I always thought "thunk" was the past tense of "think".
Oh well, you learn something new every day ... ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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not quite related, but my son's favorite meal he lovingly calls "gut bombs". moose meatballs wrapped in bacon.
"Yipee! Gut bombs for dinner!"
in my family we have many words that mean That Thing You Don't Have A Name For - like whatchamacallit, thingamajiggy, whoosie-whatsie, thingy-thing. but my former boss cracked me up with his term, used for random technical radio equipment - hoober-doober.
"Gimme that pokey jobbie that connects to the hoober-doober. you know, the red one..."
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Stuff is a well-regarded pudding in my family.
And for a while cream was called level - my nephew as a very young child was bringing a dish of cream to the table and it was tilting badly, so my brother called out 'watch that level'. Later on, nephew asked if he could have some more level...
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ArachnidinElmet
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Interesting how many of these phrases are related to food.
I forgot to mention Surprise Pudding. Custard with stuff from the cupboard, usually coconut and dried fruit, sometimes, glace cherries, the odd broken biscuit. Served hot or cold, it's really inside out trifle. One of these days the surprise will probably be no custard.
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The tool one uses to remove staples from things must be called by its proper name, which is "Staple Grabbie." You must also make the appropriate gesture when requesting it.
I have no idea why I am so adamant about this.
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We also nuke food and use the three fingered salute on the computer. I need to put my beastie on when I go out - it is my FES device which helps me raise my foot.
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Galloping Granny
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Windscreen wipers have been wig-wags since my younger sister was a small kid.
And surely everyone has one or more Zappers for programming the TV or other electronic equipment?
My dad always pronounced 'yacht' as 'yach-et', which is why I can spell it.
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Lots of strange made-up words from when the children were little. Chawdebbies (strawberries), shayhog (hedgehog) and mokey-troll (remote control) being the ones that immediately come to mind.
Anything you cannot remember the name of (usually a kitchen implement) is a tharg.
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Once I was out walking my dog and a little girl came up to me and, with no preamble, said: "I like marmalade, but I don't like the marmles."
Her mum explained, rather sheepishly, that she meant the bits of peel - which have been marmles to me ever since!
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The vehicle which goes around the roads clearing drains is a sludge-gulloper.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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Originally posted by Galloping Granny:
My dad always pronounced 'yacht' as 'yach-et', which is why I can spell it.
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Originally posted by ArachnidinElmet:
Interesting how many of these phrases are related to food.
I habitually refer to hors d'oeuvres by a term that describes the reproductive organs of streetwalkers.
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Originally posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe:
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Originally posted by Galloping Granny:
My dad always pronounced 'yacht' as 'yach-et', which is why I can spell it.
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Originally posted by ArachnidinElmet:
Interesting how many of these phrases are related to food.
I habitually refer to hors d'oeuvres by a term that describes the reproductive organs of streetwalkers.
Hors D'oeuvres are always horses duvers in our house
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Originally posted by Ann:
The vehicle which goes around the roads clearing drains is a sludge-gulloper.
In this family, leaf-blowers are referred to as anti-hoovers.
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Jammy Dodger
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Originally posted by Galloping Granny:
And surely everyone has one or more Zappers for programming the TV or other electronic equipment?
Interesting - these are hoofer doofers in our household!
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Originally posted by Jammy Dodger:
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Originally posted by Galloping Granny:
And surely everyone has one or more Zappers for programming the TV or other electronic equipment?
Interesting - these are hoofer doofers in our household!
We have several clickers in our house.
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Originally posted by Eigon:
Once I was out walking my dog and a little girl came up to me and, with no preamble, said: "I like marmalade, but I don't like the marmles."
![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif) I live for conversations like that.
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Originally posted by Zacchaeus:
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Originally posted by Jammy Dodger:
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Originally posted by Galloping Granny:
And surely everyone has one or more Zappers for programming the TV or other electronic equipment?
Interesting - these are hoofer doofers in our household!
We have several clickers in our house.
We call it kastje, which translated from Dutch means 'little cupboard'.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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My younger brother, when he was little, used to call a tape measure a "measurmer" and the word stuck over the years.
After my parents sold the family house in New York and were cleaning it out in preparation for moving out here to Arizona, we discovered the original tape measure that had given rise to the coinage -- humble as it may be, the Measurmer is now a family heirloom.
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Leorning Cniht
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Originally posted by tessaB:
Lots of strange made-up words from when the children were little. Chawdebbies (strawberries), shayhog (hedgehog) and mokey-troll (remote control) being the ones that immediately come to mind.
Along those lines, I'll nominate "troll roll" for stroller (and hence the back-formation "troll" for the occupant).
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We have a doshwisher to wash the pots. Renamed by our son when he was two.
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Another nuker of food, aka putting it in the "ding" which originates from the sound of the bell on the microwave (the vintage analog timer variety) -- which of course we haven't used for donkeys.
There's zapper as already mentioned above and I'm sure we have several others but they will only occur to me next time I use them, hopefully while this thread is still active.
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When I text 'froggie' to my daughter as a suggestion for dinner, she knows what I mean.
It is short for Froggy Doggie, which in turn comes from Toad in the Hole, made with chipolata sausages. Always home made, because she is coeliac. : )
And we use Poppety-ping for microwave. This is the genuine Welsh word, and far prettier than English.
Another useful word which I made up when young is 'scolly'. This denotes something so small as to be almost but not quite useless, which as I recall was first used of a pencil end.
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Also; 'Gubbies' as generic term for Christmas lights and decorations, primarily those spotted from a moving car as you drive along the road, but by extension those inside your own house as well. From excited sound made by very young daughter, many years ago.
'Nungie' for ice cream, and 'nungie-man' for ice-cream man.
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Years ago, I worked in a small team in an office where a thingummy/whatsit/youknowtheoneImean was a 'George'. We got a new cat. A small cute furry George...
Tangentially, I was chatting to someone last week about words for when you can't remember the name of the doojammywotsit. Apparently they'd been told by a Spanish friend that such things don't exist in Spanish. ![[Disappointed]](graemlins/disappointed.gif)
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Originally posted by Alicïa:
Another nuker of food, aka putting it in the "ding" which originates from the sound of the bell on the microwave (the vintage analog timer variety) -- which of course we haven't used for donkeys.
Indeed, that would require a large microwave.
For long and complicated reasons, Mrs. Eutychus' parents referred to their clothes horse as a "gurra" (which is Gujurati for "horse"). Her grandfather once went into Woolworths to try and buy a gurra and was met with much perplexity, or so the family legend goes.
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My Other Half's personal stereo is always referred to as his personal problem (anyone remember The Horizontal Epistles of Andromeda Veal?). Yes, I bought him an iPod instead but he never uses it.
We always call kitchen roll elephant's toilet roll.
Some friends of ours call their TV remote control the Fat Controller (I expect you can all guess where they got that idea from).
We have iffits meals too!
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From a northern friend of mine, a thingummy jig is actually known as a "doomy-wang" (no idea why!)
The hand held blender is a zuzzer, and the verb is to zuzz
And the remote control is the dibber.
The phone is often (but not always) referred to as the "telling bone" which comes from a story but I don't know which. Stig of the Dump, perhaps? From the same place comes "telling vision" for television, but that has never caught on.
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Penny S
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Edward Eager in one of his magic stories (probably "The Time Garden" has some modern American children at the court of Elizabeth I, and I think telling vision came in there. Not sure about the phone, though. (EIR with here humanist education wouldn't have made that error in real life, I think, recognising the classical origin, if not the meaning.)
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Originally posted by Anglo Catholic Relict:
And we use Poppety-ping for microwave. This is the genuine Welsh word, and far prettier than English.
If its Welsh shouldn't it be spelt Ffoffedheigh-ffidhmh or something instead?
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A topical observation: my son, when small, used to think that the Daleks went "disterminate, disterminate".
My wife and I think that a Dalek in a Beauty Salon would say, "Exfoliate, exfoliate"!
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My friends and I had some neologisms that were actually useful to us back in the late '90s:
An overwhelming noxious fume, smell, etc., was a "Plathora," which could be a noun or adjective - unlike the more general term, "plethora."
To be darker, more goth, etc., than others was to "outshadow" others.
To be too happy or energetic for the mood of the rest of the group was to "overshine."
You see the swapping that was done to get those last two.
ETA: Oh, and the feeling of generalized depression/lack of motivation/apathy/boredom was referred to as "blagh." That was before the blog came into being, but, in our accent, at least, it's pronounced a little differently - the vowel is "ah" rather than the "aw" sound in "blog" or "law."
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Originally posted by Hawk:
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Originally posted by Anglo Catholic Relict:
And we use Poppety-ping for microwave. This is the genuine Welsh word, and far prettier than English.
If its Welsh shouldn't it be spelt Ffoffedheigh-ffidhmh or something instead?
It's apocryphal - the actual Welsh word for microwave is 'meicrodon', 'don' being the (mutated) word for 'wave'. 'Microwave oven' is 'popty meicrodon'. Someone thought that 'popty ping' sounded better and it's been an urban myth ever since - and the Welsh Alex on this year's 'The Apprentice' used it as a name for his kids' microwave meals task.
Back on topic, the remote control (why does everyone have trouble with this?) is called a twitcher. It sometimes confuses visitors who think we're hiding a bird-watcher in the house. And a few years ago, when ITV ran films under the 'Murder, Mystery and Suspense' label, a family Spoonerism was born when the films were called Mister Murderies!
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I'm sure my nephew-in-law, great niece and nephew, who are Welsh, and my niece, who is mutating into Welsh, used something like popty-ping for microwave, and claimed it as Welsh - and isn't what people use what the language is? Can't you have new coinage as well as fossicking about for more correct forms as the French do? (And shouldn't a more correct form be using something derived from bach for the small element, rather than micro?)
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Originally posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe:
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Originally posted by Galloping Granny:
My dad always pronounced 'yacht' as 'yach-et', which is why I can spell it.
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Originally posted by ArachnidinElmet:
Interesting how many of these phrases are related to food.
I habitually refer to hors d'oeuvres by a term that describes the reproductive organs of streetwalkers.
Fannies...? ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
If we're on to names for thingummies, in our house we have whassnames and oojamaflits.
And telling bone was, I believe, Catweazle, who also talked about elec-trickery.
Nen - too young to remember such things... ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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