Totally Original household words - Post yours here!

[unbasslichkeit]

What I mean here is terms and words you use within your own household which nobody outside your house would understand unless you explained it. For example:

"Simon Says" form - a complicated tax form which requires you to add, subtract, and otherwise jump around to arrive at a final answer ("Enter 10% of Line 6 not to exceed $100,000"; "Add lines 6 and 7"; "Subtract Line 8 from line 1"). So named because if it doesn't say 'Simon Says', you're screwn.

"The Cookie Kids" - in our house all spare change goes into a little tin box up on the the stereo center. "Cookie Kids" is the brand name of the cookies that used to be in there.

Your turn...

[bassteban]

Screwn? I'd like to adopt that one.

[KsToaDangr]

"The Coffin" - A green wooden rectanglar storage chest. It got it's name from when my brother and I were kids playing hide and seek.

"Jizzball" - a sport played in my parent's backyard that is a cross between basketball, rugby and Powerball from American Gladiators. The only foul is travelling. If blood gets on the field, 5 minute time-out called to hose it off. Anywhere from 2 to 20 people can play.

[EricF]

"Bob-ma" - A mispronunciation by my youngest daughter of the word "bottom". Two years later, we still use that word in reference to someone's backside.

[bongomania]

My GF is full of weird expressions which I'm supposed to understand. They're like baby talk, except with specific meanings attached. For example "shungy shungies" are ground flax seeds, which she has on her salad. If she wants me to scratch her back, it's "Girl would like some ootchy backs." Many words are truncated and then pluralized: yogs= yogurt, brocs= broccoli, pups= the dog. The "rounder" is the cat's bed.

[bassteban]

We have a shelf/cubbyhole thingie that used to be black; it was known as 'the black hole' as bills, checks & other important papers would get sucked into it, never to be seen again. It's now green but we often still refer to it as 'the black hole'. 'The green hole' doesn't quite have the same ring to it.

[GeneralElectric]

Aztec theater. An old fashioned movie theater that also plays old classics in addition to new movies (though new movies aren't a necessity.) It needs a Marquee to even be considered.

[Linas]

Originally Posted by bongomania

My GF is full of weird expressions which I'm supposed to understand. They're like baby talk, except with specific meanings attached. For example "shungy shungies" are ground flax seeds, which she has on her salad. If she wants me to scratch her back, it's "Girl would like some ootchy backs." Many words are truncated and then pluralized: yogs= yogurt, brocs= broccoli, pups= the dog. The "rounder" is the cat's bed.

Do you guys call eachother shmoopy by any chance?

[tplyons]

Originally Posted by bongomania

My GF is full of weird expressions which I'm supposed to understand. They're like baby talk, except with specific meanings attached. For example "shungy shungies" are ground flax seeds, which she has on her salad. If she wants me to scratch her back, it's "Girl would like some ootchy backs." Many words are truncated and then pluralized: yogs= yogurt, brocs= broccoli, pups= the dog. The "rounder" is the cat's bed.

I get this too, and then they don't understand when I don't understand?!

[Phalex]

My wife's pet name for me is Wienis. Half wiener, half penis. (No, I'm not bragging!)

[L-A]

Yes, but trying to explain the difference between standard and non-standard french expressions here is pointless.

[tomhanzo]

"The Coffin" its this box my dad built out of 2x6s beside our pool. it really does look like a coffin, eventhough he didnt mean for it to.

[The Crusader]

undschtafloppen.

my own damn word which means just about anything, depends on the pronunciation, inflection, timing, subject and manner of how I use it.

[ROON]

My username is a secret saying. I would tell you, but... if I did, I'd have to kill you.

[kesslari]

Squidgewidget - the small dog of the household.

[MJ5150]

paschetti = our word for spaghetti.

-Mike

[Jiggybass]

instead of perogies, we say rogs, pronounced "rogues"

beer is a piss ticket.

[MatticusMania]

Pillow = to keep things cool

[DudeistMonk]

a W = To walk to the dog (first it was walk, then a w-a-l-k, then a W) He figured that one out too...luckily he is going def though so we don't need to abbreviate further.

Amongst my college buddies "wanna do some C++" has nothing to do with programming, and everything to do with what we could store in a hallowed out C++ book.

[quasiz_bassist]

oh you guys keep candy in there?

reminds me of me and my friends "bible study."