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Just invented a new saying and I quite like it

105 replies

MissyPants · 19/07/2025 01:06

Very random, but Just got in from work, hungry & bothered. Something annoyed me, so I said to myself, "oh shit off" and I must admit I quite like it, I will be using it in the future.
What are your new words/sayings you've invented & taken a liking to?

OP posts:
ithinkilikethislittlelife · 20/07/2025 18:59

We call prawn cocktail crisps cockers in my house. My son loves a packet of cockers.

Roystonv · 21/07/2025 16:32

I invented stop 'mettering' for when our lurcher was pottering/messing around and potentially being a trip hazard. Also always called Lea and Perrins Leaper growing up.

Summerhillsquare · 21/07/2025 18:49

muddyford · 19/07/2025 16:11

A very dear relation, now sadly dead, used to call mange tous 'flat peas' which we use now too.

They are 'mans' as in man get out in my house.

Namechangeforthis88 · 21/07/2025 22:44

PlasticAcrobat · 19/07/2025 06:35

Caught myself saying that I was 'Starved to a crisp' when i was very hungry recently (my brain having merged 'starved' with 'burnt to a crisp).

I like it and want to use it in future.

I also made an effort to get 'J-Po' to catch on in my household as a term for jacket potato, but everyone' rolled their eyes and I gave up.

Definitely bringing JPo into common use here. Told my son. He said "classic loser mum stuff"😂

BumblingBanana · 23/07/2025 12:00

DM says car spa for the car wash.

I'm taking Panda to the car spa.

Tickles me.

CreepingCrone · 23/07/2025 12:08

DD1 came up with "misunderheard" when she was little. We still use it +20 years on

vialittlehamptondown · 23/07/2025 12:27

We use “funny” names for off brand stuff in the shops. Eg; Nutella = notella, pot noodles = not poodles, lucozadey/lucozadish = lucozade, magnots = magnums… and others that are daft but make us smile and we know what we mean in Tesco 😁

Purplecatshopaholic · 23/07/2025 12:41

Well I test drove j-po in my house the other night and my partner stared at me and told me not to be a twat. Sorry @PlasticAcrobat, guess your artistry with words is not appreciated in the Purplecat household either, lol.

BoredZelda · 23/07/2025 12:46

Food wise, we have “swabbage” which is braised cabbage with sugar and vinegar. Teacaf is our decaffeinated tea, and “I believe in miracles” is hot chocolate.

My daughter gave us chiro-podist when she asked what it was, thinking it was the same pronunciation as chiropractor. She also once described herself as “girlsterous” when she heard us talking about one of my friends boys as being boisterous. The one she was hugely embarrassed by was mispronouncing Matt Hancock as “Flat Mancock” we still use that one!

Windscreen washer fluid is scooshy juice.

Decades ago I mixed up a phrase as “killing a bird with two one stones” I use that exclusively now, to the point I have to really think about what the real phrase is.

Loving all of these, and tonight I am having a Chez Benz J-Po for dinner!

Dontlletmedownbruce · 23/07/2025 12:47

ssd · 19/07/2025 10:15

If someone is annoying you in Glasgow they are a pestafuck

I love this one!

netflixfan · 23/07/2025 12:47

Love it!! I’m going to tell DH to shit off later 😂😂

Dontlletmedownbruce · 23/07/2025 12:48

@BoredZelda Girlsterous is brilliant

Flutterbees · 23/07/2025 13:07

We were at a function and wanted to leave. DH wanted to say ‘should we get the fuck out of here’ but messed up and said ‘should we get the flock out of here’ instead. It caught on. We now abbreviate it to ‘get the flock?’ or just ‘flock?’.

LadyGrillingSole · 23/07/2025 13:09

In my classy household it's "Get two birds stoned" 🙄

MrsW12 · 23/07/2025 13:22

Winese! When I have wine and a Chinese takeaway. Or fwinese if it’s on a Friday!

May913 · 23/07/2025 13:40

In our house you're a bewilderbeast if you have no idea what is going on (bewildered + wildebeest). And you're 'on a roll on the ball' if you're doing really well (on a roll + on the ball).

EverythingHurtsAndImHungry · 23/07/2025 13:53

When he was younger, my son used to call bras, "boobie knickers". We still call them that 18 years later!

Oreosareawful · 23/07/2025 14:01

We have four ragdoll cats at home, all with very fluffy feet. These are referred to as 'flufty tufts'

As in- " you have the most gorgeous flufty tufts!" or "he slipped on the wooden floor because of his flufty tufts"

But most commonly- "You little muck spat- you've got shit on your flufty tufts"

Muck Spat is a term of endearment for a filthy creature 😂

Choccyp1g · 23/07/2025 14:04

muddyford · 19/07/2025 16:11

A very dear relation, now sadly dead, used to call mange tous 'flat peas' which we use now too.

A previous thread talked of "man get out" peas.

BoredZelda · 23/07/2025 20:45

PlasticAcrobat · 19/07/2025 06:35

Caught myself saying that I was 'Starved to a crisp' when i was very hungry recently (my brain having merged 'starved' with 'burnt to a crisp).

I like it and want to use it in future.

I also made an effort to get 'J-Po' to catch on in my household as a term for jacket potato, but everyone' rolled their eyes and I gave up.

My teenager thinks chez bez J-Po is the worst thing she’s heard. I’m still gonna run with it!

ZiggyZowie · 23/07/2025 21:34

Instead of saying " that's a pity"
Or " what a shame"

I say. " What a shitty"

TeddyOatmeal · 23/07/2025 22:19

My late DP once said his eyes were bigger than his head when he meant his eyes were bigger than his belly and we said it forever after that if we ordered too much food

Sidge · 23/07/2025 22:33

We somehow end up with really stupid names for things in our house.

DD2s speech impediment means garlic bread is dalek bread in ours, so you might want a piece of dalek with your lasagne.

I also somehow renamed the bins as Nicky - as in “put the Nicky out”

Bin > Binage (like garage said in a Hyacinth type faux accent) > Nicky Minaj - Nicky.

Toast is hot bread.

Squirrelsnut · 23/07/2025 22:40

Currant buns were 'fly cemeteries' when I was a child.
Porridge is podge.
I honestly thought 'ballache' was a French word pronounced ballash when I saw it written down. So anything that irritates me now is a ballash.
My sleep mask is my face bra.

FrangipaniBlue · 23/07/2025 23:06

Thunderpants88 · 19/07/2025 09:33

Means “totally”

Also say “fail snail” for a minor inconvenience
“fail quail” for something bigger and
“fail whale” for a disaster

I love the fail snail/quail/whale !!