What terminology has stuck with your family from the little kid days?

[Anonymous]

Hang-a-burger
Soaking hot like soaking wet
Dee dees for little birds
Prenzles = pretzels
Yips = lips

I love “easy gloves”

[Anonymous]

We still say “I’m just preteasing” (mash up of pretending and teasing from my older DD who he now 11)

We don’t use it often but really like “I’m in a bit of a pig-hold” (instead of pickle) from our DD who is now 7.

Out 7 year old likes picking out “spacaragus” at the grocery store and I don’t know whether we’ll use that forever but it definitely is now what we call asparagus.

[Anonymous]

My toddler will occasionally throw an “ok?” onto the end of an otherwise declaratory sentence. My favorite is “I love you so much, ok?” and I’ve started saying it myself.

[Anonymous]

My sister called cucumbers cumcubers ans 30 years later my dad finds it so funny he still calls them cumcubers despite our protests.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bluebabies = blueberries
Mote-a-toll = remote control
Han-a-ma-grabber = one of those claw tools with the handle you squeeze, used for picking up trash
Oka-mooness = oh my goodness
Noonles = noodles
Monster = lobster
Skabetty = spaghetti

DD was really fascinated by early human ancestors when she was in elementary school. She’d learned about homo habilis, homo heidelbergensis, homo erectus, etc. Because she had no idea that “homo” could be considered a slur, she innocently blurted out, “Can you imagine what those homos would think of us today?!” at dinner with relatives.

Hilarious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hand sanitizer = sanzi-tyer or soap

We call it hanitizer!

[Anonymous]

Mohead for moped

Squinkles for sprinkles

Sue-bop for syrup

We don't say any of these in public but at home we'll still same them. Kids are 10.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Awfuls = olives
Woowoom = living room

There is also a certain way “again!” Was said that lives on. Also the sign for “all done”

We use this one all the time, a decade later

[Anonymous]

Flubbernutter for fluff. We have it so rarely that the name just kind of stuck.

This isn't really the same but DS is a teenager and will still ask to play "keep uppy" with one of those punch balloons or something similar. We've been playing it since he was a toddler, basically like volleyball with a balloon. It's just funny to hear my deep voiced 5'11" teen ask to play "keepy uppy "

[Anonymous]

Hard pants and soft pants. Hard pants are khaki material or jeans. Soft pants are sweats or athletic material.

[Anonymous]

Re-moh-cah-ma-troll" - "Remote Control"
and
"Canyon-ball!" - "Cannonball!"

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Farmer John cheese = parmesan cheese

For some reason, my son thought maraschino cherries were called parmesan cherries. We still call them that.

Love it - my kids always called carbonated water "spicy water". We all still call it that.

[Anonymous]

Oh my goodness, my kids used to say "It doesn't care" for "It doesn't matter/I don't care"

Definitely still used.

[Anonymous]

Water bottle - bubba
But my kids hate it. It's me who still says it

[Anonymous]

long sleeve pants. My middle schooler will still say this, and it makes perfect sense.