What do you call these?
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Wall warts
I honestly hate this term, but alas, I also say wall wart most of the time.
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are they called dongles because they dangle?
I guess so!
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I'd usually only call something 'Netzteil' in the context of computers and not devices primarily used with batteries in mind
Interesting! For me anything that goes into the socket (Stromnetz) is a Netzteil
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No seriously, I always get blank stares when I ask people, I've called them wall chargers or power bricks, my friend called them plug chargers, my fiancee calls them dongles. What do you call these around your house, like when you're asking someone if they've seen any (______)'s
Chargie boys.
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Interesting! For me anything that goes into the socket (Stromnetz) is a Netzteil
.Honestly it's a 50:50 for me.
But if I'd have to decide it's like that -
No seriously, I always get blank stares when I ask people, I've called them wall chargers or power bricks, my friend called them plug chargers, my fiancee calls them dongles. What do you call these around your house, like when you're asking someone if they've seen any (______)'s
USB charger
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No seriously, I always get blank stares when I ask people, I've called them wall chargers or power bricks, my friend called them plug chargers, my fiancee calls them dongles. What do you call these around your house, like when you're asking someone if they've seen any (______)'s
In England, we call those argy-bargy-cable-chargies.
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No seriously, I always get blank stares when I ask people, I've called them wall chargers or power bricks, my friend called them plug chargers, my fiancee calls them dongles. What do you call these around your house, like when you're asking someone if they've seen any (______)'s
The Dingus. Wall wart. And a whole number of colorful names if I step on one with the prongs up, or roll my ankle on one in the dark!
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"Thingie"
Or in my language -- "Negocinho".
A Negocinho and a Cabo ("a thingie and a cable") make a phone charger ("carregador de celular")
Ah! A Chingadera!
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Can I have a Le Chargeur, please
Hmmm... Quel est votre pourcentage?
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No seriously, I always get blank stares when I ask people, I've called them wall chargers or power bricks, my friend called them plug chargers, my fiancee calls them dongles. What do you call these around your house, like when you're asking someone if they've seen any (______)'s
Cable head
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Again, I do not care, that's not something that matters in our relationship
Edit: I still don't care and now I'm going to start saying it when talking to her because all of your discomfort gives me joy
If you both know what you mean, that’s all that matters because that’s the entire point of language in that context. I don’t think it’s giving anyone discomfort though.
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Hmmm... Quel est votre pourcentage?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Ehhhh...Il ne comprend pas?
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USB A/C adapter, or just "ac adapter".
wrote last edited by [email protected]This is my actual answer, also "wall adapter," but I really liked Ginny's "argly bargy cable chargie."
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No seriously, I always get blank stares when I ask people, I've called them wall chargers or power bricks, my friend called them plug chargers, my fiancee calls them dongles. What do you call these around your house, like when you're asking someone if they've seen any (______)'s
Wall wart
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Most people I know still have lightning ones. You don't need a new phone every year
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No seriously, I always get blank stares when I ask people, I've called them wall chargers or power bricks, my friend called them plug chargers, my fiancee calls them dongles. What do you call these around your house, like when you're asking someone if they've seen any (______)'s
Squares
The wonders of spanish
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No seriously, I always get blank stares when I ask people, I've called them wall chargers or power bricks, my friend called them plug chargers, my fiancee calls them dongles. What do you call these around your house, like when you're asking someone if they've seen any (______)'s
wrote last edited by [email protected]USB adaptor
If context is unclear might add a "mains" or even "C" in the middle as needed.
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I've been forced to start calling these wall dongles by my fiancé, I made sure that in order to accept this terminology that wall warts with the cord attached are now dingle-dongles, and the ones with a cord before the electronics are dangle-dongles.
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Phone charger
But in the case of the ones in the pic, fire hazzard
My stepkid had one of these exact ones. He pulled it out and the outside sleeve detached.
The internals on these are incredibly unsafe. There's a very high chance you can rip it out, and the tines will remain plugged in, with nothing to grab onto to remove them. The tines themselves are only pinched internally by a weak little bit of metal to connect to the rest of it, not even soldered.
