Family Slang

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Sat Apr 25, 2020 9:32 am

I say “peepo”

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Sat Apr 25, 2020 10:16 am

Hell yeah!

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Sat Apr 25, 2020 10:43 am

peepo is new to me!

Evan.V.N.S.J. · Post by **Evan.V.N.S.J.** » Sat Apr 25, 2020 11:06 am

Reading this conversation has convinced me that every word in every human language was first popularized by people relentlessly but gently making fun of their family members' mistakes

alexshred420 · Post by **alexshred420** » Sat Apr 25, 2020 11:16 am

I also say the full phrase.

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Mon May 04, 2020 3:57 am

Oh yeah, beans are "boners"

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Mon May 04, 2020 4:11 am

whoa!

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Mon May 04, 2020 10:26 am

Not to brag, but my parents still call gloves "glubs on" because that's what I said as a baby.

RCH · Post by **RCH** » Mon May 04, 2020 10:51 am

David is PP Bear, short for Peepy, because she peeps (sees and chirps) and urinates.

Phil · Post by **Phil** » Mon May 04, 2020 1:31 pm

If there is residual adhesive gunk on a surface where a sticker used to be and it’s all blackened and smeared around it’s called “shremel”. (Emphasis on second syllable.)

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Mon May 04, 2020 1:40 pm

Thank you. I really need that word!!

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Mon May 04, 2020 2:03 pm

Yes. This was a missing word.

Phil · Post by **Phil** » Mon May 04, 2020 4:53 pm

I actually use “shremel” a lot. It means basically any gunky smear. “Let me wipe that little shremel off your cheek.”

matthew · Post by **matthew** » Mon May 04, 2020 9:30 pm

Less family more localized brain slang:

Chicken -> Kitchen
Party -> Bathroom (potty)
Philliam -> Phil

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Tue May 05, 2020 3:06 am

I have to go to the "party"! I love this! As a wee small kiddo I used to have "accidents" because I didn't want to stop playing and go be alone on this tall cold big bowl-seat. I feel like if my parents had just called it the party, it would have spared everyone a lot of grief.

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Tue May 05, 2020 4:50 am

I remember when Jae broke her collar bone for some reason we called her collar bone her "hot dog"

GARY-19 · Post by **GARY-19** » Tue May 05, 2020 6:33 am

Film slang:

The shark in JAWS has a name and it's "Josh."

The full, given name of the titular character in CITIZEN KANE is "Citizen Kane."

The famous last dying word of Citizen Kane is "rosebush."

The title music for MILDRED PIERCE is a song with lyrics that goes, "Mil-dred Pierce / Her name was Mildred Pi-erce! / Milll-dred Pierce / Her name was Mildred Pierce!"

Yoda says, "There is no try, only could."

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Tue May 05, 2020 6:37 am

Re Yoda: I was thisclose to starting a fave baby yoda memes thread, but I managed to get myself under control just in time.

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Tue May 05, 2020 7:51 am

We also call all experimental films "French pornos"

Post by **joni** » Tue May 05, 2020 8:47 am

LOVE these film ones.

[mention]m o l l y[/mention] please, no memes

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Tue May 05, 2020 8:51 am

I like when the baby yoda holds that mug though.

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Tue May 05, 2020 8:58 am

Video game slang: when you’ve been playing Dr Mario and you’re on the final game of the final round, that’s called the “biscuits round” because whoever wins gets “all the biscuits”

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Tue May 05, 2020 9:11 am

joni wrote: ↑Tue May 05, 2020 8:47 am LOVE these film ones.

@m o l l y please, no memes

I SAID, just in time!!

GARY-19 · Post by **GARY-19** » Tue May 05, 2020 9:35 am

Also whenever a person says, "What's your/their problem?" that triggers the recitation of an approximately three-minute sequence in the movie TOP GUN with various character voices. The sequence begins with Val Kilmer (a.k.a. Ice Man) saying, "You're everyone's problem. That's because every time you go up in the air you're UN-SAFE." And it ends with Michael Ironside (a.k.a. Jester) saying, "I don't know. I just don't know."

meadows · Post by **meadows** » Tue May 05, 2020 10:02 am

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Tue May 05, 2020 12:11 pm

The what’s your problem you’re everyone’s problem has never gotten old for me yet

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Tue May 05, 2020 12:45 pm

Oh also if you are watching a movie and you need to go to the bathroom you say “can you pause it” and the other person says “what do you want me to posit.” 17 years of this shit

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Tue May 05, 2020 1:34 pm

A wallet is a "waléta"

People who pour milk into their coffee before they pour the coffee are "milk-first boys"

Netflix is "Ned's Flicks"

When you need to plug your phone into the car stereo or power, you require "plug love"

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Tue May 05, 2020 1:36 pm

Nintendo is “pembo” or “Nim Pembo”

RCH · Post by **RCH** » Tue May 05, 2020 2:25 pm

If someone says something looks fancy, you have to say "I can tell." (Because of the Cars song "Just What I Needed")

alex · Post by **alex** » Tue May 05, 2020 2:25 pm

I try to remove the "s" sound from every company name that is plural or possessive, and add to those that arent: Netflick, Walgreen, Chipotle's, Homes Depot, etc. Gotta keep it interesting!

Post by **joni** » Tue May 05, 2020 2:35 pm

We totally do that too

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Tue May 05, 2020 3:11 pm

We do too! Or just general mispronouncing. “Nortflix”

willowowow · Post by **willowowow** » Tue May 05, 2020 4:14 pm

OMG I just remembered my favorite family slang courtesy of @RCH! When you're late meeting up with someone because you were busy having sex with someone else you say, in your most genteel voice, "I apologize for my tardiness. I was way laid."

RCH · Post by **RCH** » Tue May 05, 2020 4:21 pm

WILLOW!!!

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Tue May 05, 2020 6:20 pm

Hahahahaha!!

Post by **joni** » Wed May 06, 2020 9:23 am

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Wed May 06, 2020 9:28 am

RCH · Post by **RCH** » Wed May 06, 2020 10:34 am

I know I come off sexy but the truth is, I'm a virgin and I just make stuff up to sound cool.

Lucky Luc · Post by **Lucky Luc** » Wed May 06, 2020 10:44 am

Goojelly/Goojellies (pronounced GOO-djuh-lee): Any kind of gunk, adhesion, residue, or crusty bits. Can be good or bad (i.e., "Go wash your hands, they're covered in goojellies" or "Oooh scrape the pan I want more of those tasty goojellies")

Pickybore: House-spirit responsible for weird noises, doors blowing open, missing things, etc. (Originally a demon I invented when I was 5 that lives under the stove and eats Santa, but he mellowed out to a benign trickster-type)

"Smoke 'em up Betty/Bob": Any person who is currently smoking a cigarette

"Turn on, Dead Man": Multipurpose, can mean "Yes, I'm down let's do it," or "Give me the thing you are holding that I want," or even "You should go ahead and do the thing you're talking about wanting to do"

Phil · Post by **Phil** » Wed May 06, 2020 10:57 am

Nutflisk

Instead of “not really” say “nut really” (subtle one)

A bag that you carry acorns or filberts in is called your “nutsack”.

Phil · Post by **Phil** » Wed May 06, 2020 11:56 am

Youtube is called YouLens, based on a Law & Order CI 'zode where they called it that, thinly veiled.

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Wed May 06, 2020 12:19 pm

"Teeth sweaters" are what you get when your teeth feel all sweatery. "I need to brush my teeth; they've got sweaters." Comes directly from the mouth of [mention]Lucky Luc[/mention]'s mom.

Lucky Luc · Post by **Lucky Luc** » Wed May 06, 2020 1:46 pm

Spinach is an especially tooth-sweatering food

Evan.V.N.S.J. · Post by **Evan.V.N.S.J.** » Wed May 06, 2020 1:53 pm

I totally thought teeth sweaters was a word everyone used and Clara thought I was so weird when I explained it to her... but it makes sense... they're sweatery

Lucky Luc · Post by **Lucky Luc** » Wed May 06, 2020 1:57 pm

I also assumed that tooth sweater was a ubiquitous term... it just feels right

Lucky Luc · Post by **Lucky Luc** » Wed May 06, 2020 2:00 pm

"Don't do it, Mitch": Said to someone (whether or not they can hear) who is about to make a bad decision, or one that would negatively impact the speaker, i.e. when someone is about to pull out ahead of you in traffic you mutter to yourself, "Don't do it, Mitch." I have no idea who Mitch is or why my dad associated him with inconvenience and poor decision-making.

GARY-19 · Post by **GARY-19** » Thu May 07, 2020 5:51 am

I thought of another film one, which is that every time we say, "Oh God," we say it like Cindy Williams says it in the movie THE CONVERSATION. This is very subtle, but it also often leads to reciting the eponymous "conversation" in full.

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Thu May 07, 2020 6:05 am

He isn’t hurting anyone
Neither are we

Also:

When Franklin poops it is called “clinking.” “Did he clink this morning yet?”

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Thu May 07, 2020 6:11 am

My sister and I have been saying "way to breathe, no breath" to each other when either of us makes a mistake or fails at something simple, ever since Bart Simpson sold his soul in 1995.