I have taken the liberty of cutting and pasting Laura's post from another thread, because I started thinking that having a thread for made-up words would be good for a laugh. Please share your made-up words and stories so we can all laugh at with you.



Made-up words are the best! I have lots of them. I'm going to start using them on VJ. I've already used "breffrus". That's from when my cousin got drunk one night then tried to say "breakfast". "Churzburger" (cheeseburger) is another one. And I still say "eyebrowns" instead of eyebrows.... that came from my daughter when she was about 4. I'm sure I'll be back with some more.

- kittlekat - a little cat somewhere between kitten and full grown cat. Also, kittelies - one of my 'baby' words for kitties that stuck with our family.

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our family uses the word SHAAAAAWWWWWW came from my little sister one day when she was upset about some game not working the way she thought it should lol

not sure if I made it up but I use fantabulous on occasion.... I think I have more but I can't think of them right now....

lol.. I always referred to the TV show Dawson's Creek as Dawson's Crack...lol

Borgorigney. The sound your stomach makes when it's hungry.

Kittlekat



Do you play Balderdash?


There's a long story which I won't bore you with, but someone I know had to sell his boat. After that, anytime someone mentioned "boat" he would get upset so I started calling it "The B-Word." And that's why boats are called b-words in my family.

Krikit,

Nope, I don't even know what Balderdash is, believe it or not. But I think it is a " B " word, eh?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balderdash

F##ktard....

It's the best game ever! And, yes, it's a b word!





Fond memories?

I say spectabulous!

Spuzghetti is a regular in my house cause I have a six year old now.

Sketti

I hope Uno finds this thread. She's awesome with making up words and it makes complete sense somehow.

She just posted the other day that her avatar was "thickaliciously fyne". And I thought Charles wrote that. Uno could write a dictionary with her words.

Does anyone have a word for the residue on the rim of ketchup bottles?

A friend of mine was excellent at making up words (which was helpful when we wanted to swear -- we went to a Christian university and there were times when that was needed ), one of our favourites of hers was "q--frigging -- uoi" -- a mixture of quoi (french for "what") and frigging. Pronounced kuh-frigging-wah. used when more emphasis was needed than a plan old what. Bilingually delicious.

I have to laugh at my husband because he makes up words every day. He now knows my look because he'll say something, look at my face, then go "That's not a word, is it?"

The best words are made up by kids. I have a "stepson" (not a real stepson.... long story.... pretty much abandoned by his parents so I became the surrogate) whose two year old was staying with me once. My father dropped by one day for something and said he was just about to take my aunt and uncle to the airport. I said "Say goodbye for me." Then he left. My grandson turned to me and said "Nanny? Your daddy's name is Formy?"

This is funny!

I created "Bably" (bab-lee) Calling Nick "baby" one day I just randomly added an l in there and now that's one of our words for one another.

Crapchup (Or rather, Krapchup, I guess)

Sometimes just plain old "Ketchup Smegma".

When we came down here on our house-hunting trip (before he was relocated) we got a post office box for our mail. The guy put down "Feff" instead of "Jeff" on the form, so I've called him that ever since.

Ketstuck

I say ginormous all of the time - a cross between enormous and gigantic.

I also say stinkledink - which I have no idea what that is - but generally refers to a man whose an a$$.

And then there's my husband's personal favorite - the mowerwhatzit - also known as the weed whacker.

Works for me!

(You shake 'n shake the ketchup bottle . . .
First none will come . . and then a lot'll!)

I came up with breasticles one day. It's my female equivalent to the male balls. Instead of saying she's got balls it's she's got breasticles. Also means: Female strength. Often bigger than male balls. An obvious mixture of the words testicle and breast.

After I came up with that word a few years later a similar word was used in a movie I saw, "chesticles", in refering to a female in a similar way. I felt it was still too male.

Kitchky..

my made up Russian word for Kitty..

Pasgetti

I've used breasticles for years.... It's a good word.

We use a made up word in MENA sometimes... I didn't make it up but it's a made up word "mabrookalations" it's a cross between mabrook (arabic for congrats) and congratulations..... that's what we call Arabizi LOL

My daughter was trying to explain to me about the teenage mutant ninja turtle movie she was watching today... she kept telling me that turtle was going to "mamatate" turns out he wanted to "meditate"

I believe that would be redcheese.

You mean it's not called Dawson's Crack, I've been calling it that for years.

We call that "Funkage" in my house.




Ah yes, Breasticles. We use that one a lot to.

And since I teach high school and it's not appropriate to shout out "F***" when I am really angry, I say "tchefuncte" which is the name of a river in Louisiana but has a great stress-relieving feeling.

I also like saying "du bist im gefangenschaft" to my students, which I suppose does sort of have a not-so-pleasant meaning ("you're in captivity" or something similar). In fact, ANYTHING said in German in just the right tone sounds angry. Even "ich liebe dich, Schatzi."

sgetti


great minds think alike

oh i used to babysit for these kids and for some reason we always called those ramen noodles, noodle doodles... lol

That's so true!

How do you pronounce tchefuncte? Che functa?

I pronounce Fajitas ---> Fah Jie Tahs....my husband laughs whenever I read it from a menu.......I have no idea where I got that from..probably learnt it the same time I tried to pronounce Jojoba....he he he

I get the visual headbonk whenever I pronounce the j in jalapenos.... ja lap an noes.

True, very true.

Jou deserve it, jou know. Now where's that Kraft cheese?

I always say that my dog is a "fondrilack".... I have no idea where it came from, but it's stuck with her.

Indeed you are correct. There's always also a little "southern" that comes out in me when I say it so I emphasize the "func" part of the word

This isn't a made up word, but reading raymaga's post made me think of this: We always say "Kartoffelsalat" (in that weird tone people use with dogs) to our dog and she thinks it means "let's go to the dog park!" It really means "potato salad" but for some reason she thinks it means "dog park." Freaky animal, I tell you.

http://www.unwords.com/alpha/ALL/0.html

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