> Funny words. I was trying to find out the precise meaning of that 'greeblies' word I mentioned earlier, as (presumably) learned by young NZ'ers. Now I've run across the concept of "family slang Invented words," described recently in The Edmonton Journal. You know, quirky 'words' which are typically coined by children learning to speak, then adopted by the rest of the family. Some examples:
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> Flat meat -- cold cuts. "Two hundred grams of the Black Forest flat meat."
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> Flip a flooey -- make a U-turn. "Just flip a flooey at the next corner."
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> Floppy cheese -- processed cheese slices.
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> Hoho -- to shave; derived from the Santa beard created by applying shaving cream. "Daddy has to hoho every morning before work."
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> Hooshmie -- main dish of pasta, hamburger, tomato soup and onion.
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> Jibrone -- an idiot. "What a jibrone."
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> Lurgs -- feeling of revulsion or disgust. "Possum road-kill gives me the lurgs."
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> Pedal-Estrian -- bicycle rider.
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> Schnoosh -- dog's sneeze. "Rover schnooshed all over me."
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> Shnarfle -- dog's deep sniff. "The dog shnarfled my pant leg."
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> Scrud -- icky food residue. "Please clean the scrud from the ketchup bottle."
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> Washamadryer -- to wash laundry. "Go do the washamadryer because Stephen doesn't have any clean underwear left."
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> While -- a unit of time very similar to a minute. "I'll be finished in a couple of whiles."
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> So, I wonder if any of you Rink-Dinks with kids (or trainable parents :) have come up with similar slang terms unique to your own family?
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> Wolf "Code 29 -- 'Everything is Dave's fault.'" spirit


You all have some inventive words... I know my family has oodles, but the ones that immediately come to mind are:

Uppies: Green Peas (c'mon, bounce a frozen one off a table, what does it do? It goes up.) "Pass the uppies (or sometimes just "ups")."

Trees: Broccoli. "Have some trees with your uppies."

Cheeriodieos: As near as I can spell, anyway -- Cheerios. :) "My bird's favorite snack is a bowl (not his own of course) of cheeriodios."

Mackichee: I don't think this one is stictly our own, actually - pretty sure I've heard others use it too -- Macaroni & Cheese.

Chug Room: The laundry room; derivitive of Chugarug (think about it. What's a washer sound like to a 3 year old?) used in the "Toss your jeans in the chug room" sense.

Pushbutton: TV/Stereo/Etc. Remote. I don't know which of we kiddos invented that one, actually. For the first 7 years of my life I didn't know there was any other word for it... :)

Hoppity-skip: "Jump," as in "Hoppityskip to that other station, if you please."

Skrip: Mutation of the above and the word "Scroll" -- "Skrip down a bit on that website."

And that's all I can think of at the moment. Strange thing is they're all integral words in our household, and the youngest is almost 13 -- technically "too old to use baby words," I suppose.

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