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Words that ought to exist.

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S1ur · 09/07/2008 15:56

Pedants' corner seems most annoying appropriate place to ask.

It once took me quite some time to convince DP that after snow had fallen it had not, it fact

snown

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TsarChasm · 09/07/2008 21:05

Have we had 'jumpoline'? I love that one.

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Bowddee · 09/07/2008 21:15

Chobble. Verb. I chobble, you chobble, he chobbles etc. Also chobbling.
As in crunching hard sweets.
I was shocked to find it wasn't in the COED.

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S1ur · 09/07/2008 21:19

to meep and be meepish.

all slightly pathetic and meek and mimsy

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franke · 09/07/2008 21:25

Splodger - the TV remote control

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S1ur · 09/07/2008 21:31

winkrin, that half grin winky face that you instantly regret doing to your boss

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SaintGeorge · 09/07/2008 21:38

We need to start putting all these in as entries to The English Project, Kitchen Table Lingo.

I like this one:

FLOORDROBE describes the place that most teenagers use to ?store their clothes? i.e the floor of their bedroom.

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LynetteScavo · 09/07/2008 21:41

Lunk

to lunk around, not doing very much.

invented by DS1 when he was 2.

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jura · 09/07/2008 21:48

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branflake81 · 10/07/2008 11:46

Fonella - "kif" is a slang word in French. It means to like something

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Tutter · 10/07/2008 11:47

oh jura that was a funny book

i must only have been 10yo so rather inappropriate reading i suppose

but also - scrabster (something about dogs scratching their balls)

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MadamAnt · 10/07/2008 11:53

omeone mentioned 'threenager' the other day, which is perfect for my DD at the moment.

Swedes - we eat spomlettes (Spanish omelettes)

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MadamAnt · 10/07/2008 11:53

bacne = spots on your back

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chuggabopps · 10/07/2008 12:21

craptactuar- another in regard to big family dos

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filthymindedvixen · 10/07/2008 12:23

Quantumplating - for thinking about really big stuff
I use this a lot...

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filthymindedvixen · 10/07/2008 12:24

I eat Scromlette - cross twixt spanish omelette and scrambled eggs IFSWIM.

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happystory · 10/07/2008 12:25

Once hear someone say there should be a word for that liitle run/walk you do across a zebra crossing when a car is waiting, or when the green man on a pelican has just turned red. Sort of a hop-skip-and-a-jump...

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donnie · 10/07/2008 12:27

'pregmant'.

my lovely dd1 said it before she knew better!

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MrsJamin · 10/07/2008 12:29

I think underwhelmed should be a word.

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StarlightMcKenzie · 10/07/2008 12:33

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throckenholt · 10/07/2008 12:42

constracted - my kids use is a cross between confused and distracted.

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throckenholt · 10/07/2008 12:49

my dad used to make bomblettes - omlettes with whatever he could find added (I hated them ).

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Aero · 10/07/2008 12:54

We've had 'wumberbella' for umberella.

'Gockons' for socks, derived when I used to set ds1 up on the chair whilst getting him dressed and say 'socks on'.

Also, 'hostible' for hospital, 'vegebatles' for vegetables and 'brekstaff' for breakfast.

Aeroplanes used to be 'Qweeeeeees' because of th noise they make! We've since moved on from that and they're now called 'hairoplanes'!

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Lazylou · 10/07/2008 13:03

We have 'jollop' in this house whenever anyone needs medicine, especially the DCs although DH and I often call it that too. DD calls vegetables 'vegebubbles' and biscuits are 'bitgits'

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love2sleep · 16/07/2008 11:18

I found another good one in an email yesterday. Someone apologised for pestering me at such a "buzzy" time. It sums up my life rather well.

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