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For wanting to know about your idiolects?

142 replies

ThunderInMyHeart · 07/01/2013 11:36

Just been enjoying trawling through Classics and someone used 'trumped' instead of 'farted'. It made me smile and reminded me of my dad (not a serial ripper of the ass (idiolect within an idiolect!), but because he uses that word too).

Instead of Waitrose, I say 'WeightRise'.

Please share!

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Llareggub · 07/01/2013 15:28

In our family we tell people to "mind the gherkin" if there is a drink on the carpet in danger of being knocked over.

The local paper, the Evening Post is called the "Twiddly Po."

My older son calls breastfeeding "boat" which has now been adopted by the younger too.

TerraNotSoFirma · 07/01/2013 15:40

You know the series 'ice road truckers'? I call it 'ice truck killers'
I did it once and can't seem to stop referring to it as that.

In the first series of Dexter, the main killer guy was 'the ice truck killer' , that's where it came from.

ThreeBeeOneGee · 07/01/2013 15:42

DS1 used to complain if his sheet was all "ruckled up" . It's not a word I've heard from anyone else but I knew instantly what he meant.

ThunderInMyHeart · 07/01/2013 15:44

'vah-gee-nah' is how DH and I jokingly call the fanjo

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ThunderInMyHeart · 07/01/2013 15:45

Epic italicising fail

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TuftyFinch · 07/01/2013 16:02

I don't think this counts in the same way but as a child, if I asked my dad where my mum was he would always say:
She went mad so I shot her.
Or
She's gone round the bend.
Odd sense of humour my dad Hmm

poshme · 07/01/2013 16:12

My parents call the oven gloves a gone-again. So when I was little I thought that's what is was called- I didn't know there was a proper name for it.

LadyWellian · 07/01/2013 16:30

ChristmasFayre I'm trying to train DD out of calling ibuprofen 'iburofen'.

usualsuspect · 07/01/2013 16:52

Skinheads on a raft for beans on toast.
memote for the remote.

usualsuspect · 07/01/2013 16:53

If you asked my dad where mum was he said 'there and back to see how far it is'

IsletsOfLangerhans · 07/01/2013 17:02

A 'dug-a-dee' for a cup of tea
We have fartichokes fairly often
'Fileys' are flowers
A 'Kung' is a lift-up-cuddle

Cailleach · 07/01/2013 17:02

Our family has a metric shedload of these...as you will see, a lot of these come from my (mental) Gran.

We also call digestives suggestives, but chocolate digestives are "highly suggestives".

Another one is "chippings" for jewellery, especially precious stones; this comes from my gran's disparaging comment about the size of my mum's engagement ring ("it's very small...was it a chipping off a bigger stone?") "Chippings" especially applies to large flashy ostentatious pieces of jewellery eg. the Queen's crown / Bet Lynch's earrings etc.

Facility Kendal instead of Felicity, as that's what my Gran calls her (not humourously, she thinks that's her name)

Pruning instead of preening, and vice versa; another Gran-ism ("sure look at that lovely bird on the lawn there, 'tis pruning itself"..."that hedge really needs preening again").

Effylopes for envelopes, as both my brother and sister pronounced it that way when they were small.

Picture-skew for picturesque.

Substances for breasts (from the Peter Cook and Dudley Moore sketch)

An elfin beauty (from the same sketch) used to describe an actress or other celebrity who is either a) trying way to hard to look glam b) has totally overdone the plastic surgery or c) is well past their sell by date but is still trying to look young (Liz Taylor being the classic example.)

More as I remember them.

usualsuspect · 07/01/2013 17:23

cappuccinos are cups of Chino

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AmberSocks · 07/01/2013 21:42

my younger brother (who is 20)calles a dressing gown a dressing down and my mum calls it a dressing gownd.

AmberSocks · 07/01/2013 21:45

beeba for a remote

Bingdweller · 07/01/2013 21:45

Smote roll - remote control
Timmyzoori - tiramisu
Queerfella - pig
Vah-hyna - fanjo
Jimmerjammers - pj's

PelvicFloorClenchReminder · 07/01/2013 21:52

Pajambalayas are pyjamas!

And spaghetti bolognaise is always spaghetti bollocknakeds.

BadRoly · 07/01/2013 21:56

Years ago there was a Vic Reeves thing and he and Bob were dressed up as Donald & Davy Stott. They were interviewing Sting who farted. They started laughing and saying Sting had done a little Tommy Squeaker.

Which dh and I adopted and use with the kids. Only one of them couldn't remember Tommy Squeaker and called it a Johnny Popper which has now stuck...

grumpydwarf · 07/01/2013 21:58

We use "dick dicks" for birds as my mum always calls them that instead of dickie birds! I'm very worried about when his speech gets better and we're out in public!

My sister calls anything that smells fishy a Monica after a girl she went to school with who smelt a bit fishy and that's stuck too! Poor ds as he gets older!

Moominlandmidwinter · 07/01/2013 22:00

Love this thread!

Milk is 'nulk', thanks to DD2.

The remote control is the 'zapper'.

Pets at Home is known as 'Pets R Us'.

The pet rabbits are known as the 'furry kids'.

Farts are 'blow-offs' or 'blast-offs' (depending on the severity).

There are loads more.

stubbornstains · 07/01/2013 22:02

Desecrated coconut. Quiche pronounced as "kwitch". Lasagne pronounced as "lasangee".

Thanks to DS, I can see nipples being "nibbles" and juggling being "jiggling" for ever.

Any cheap, dirty, delicious dinner, like, I don't know, fried eggs, waffles and beans, is cibo scumbo. Half of that is Italian. And half isn't.

stubbornstains · 07/01/2013 22:03

Oh yes, and Costcutter = Cocksucker

Merida · 07/01/2013 22:04

We talk about going to S+M instead of B+M. My cousin calls it Bum+Muff.

We live in a wee town, it was the most exciting thing ever when they opened a shop here. Only surpassed by when Songs of Praise filmed in the local church.