Literal-minded kids names for things -

[SoonMeansNever]

3yo DS and I were baking muffins on Sunday, he called flour 'pastry powder'

I don't imagine that one'll stick once he knows the real word, but DH calls quiche 'egg cake', and friends of ours all call raspberry jam 'pink jam' since the kids named it years ago.

Any more?

My eldest always had odd words for things. Her fav blanket, and most other blankets were called Kikis, and yoghurts were called Shlor, right up until the age of 6 bless her

lol miscellaneous that's a new one

From our LO:-
Mummy's special tissues - Sanpro
Snowy trees. - cauliflower
Hippos - hiccups

Eggy pancake - omlette
Cheese pancake - quesadilla

Mine calls mermaids "ladyfish".
Boiled egg = big egg, fried egg = flat egg. We don't see that many ladyfish except in stories.

Oh and when she had a nosebleed she said her nose was "leaking paint"!

We had a conversation about moving house recently, and DS aged 3 said it would be too heavy

My ds told me he had done a mouth trump when he yawned! Going for a coffee is having a juicebiscuit, and Marks & Spencer's is known as daddy & Spencer's thanks to dd.

Not yawned, burped

Turnip is 'orange potatoes' named by ds when he was little. Dc are teens now and it's still what we call it

Gingerbread man = man biscuit.

Diet coke = mummy water. (Just glad they didn't use that name for wine!)

Ds used to call gloves 'glubs'. We still say 'where are my glubs 'and he's now 11

My three year old has always called my boobs "booms".

Salt and vinegar crisps are "fizzy crisps".

My ex's daughter used "hoove" as a verb: "are you going to hoove with the hoover?"

We also have 'the fat controller' for remote control.

My bra is my 'butterfly', makes sense to me!

DD told me we have to drink plenty of water so we don't get low-drated

Oh and dh reminded me this morning (not related to this thread) that ds1 used to call a camera a cheese.

Sorry in advance if I bring the tone of the thread down but when I read the title the first thing that popped into my head was what my dc call bras.

They are known as boobie-caps!!!

Boltonlass - my kids all called them 'glubs' when they were really small. DH continue to do so. They also called spoons 'smoons'. Super cute

One of my kids (can't remember which one) used to refer to spicy food as being 'too spiky for my mouth'.

Yes we have yellow egg instead of scrambled!"and the remote control is the zitter!

According to my 3yo DD, the correct name for a trampoline is 'bounce-o-line'.

Crusts are 'edges'.

And somewhat euphemistically poo often gets called 'mud' e.g. "Muuuuum, can you wipe my bum? There's mud on it"

22mo DS got paint on his hands this morning and asked for bubble mummy - because i always get him to rub his hands to make bubbles when washing them

My mum still says Swimmingoes after I couldn't manage flamingoes age 3ish

Bran flakes = brown flakes. Misheard me but makes total sense!

I wish I'd written some of the funny things the dds said down at the time because I'm sure I've forgotton loads of them.

We also have the Fat Controller for the Sky remote (and the thin controller for the tv remote)

Caterkillers we still use - as in (crossly) Salad is for Caterkillers
Croccolli - Crocodile, the same colour as broccoli

DD used to call a calculator a 'countylater' cos it counts

and fried eggs were flat eggs

and when they had rollerblades,the elbow protectors were 'elbow helmets'