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What weird words or phrases does your family use?

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    Mine has a few that I can think of but I'm definitely forgetting some:

    • Snig: a secret stash. Usually of cash but it could be chocolate or whatever. Pretty sure this one is unique but I'd love to hear otherwise.
    • Sero: (seero) seriously. This one isn't unique.
    • James floody (flew-dy) ah-doody amen: Weird chant in the hope that something comes true.
    • edit: pinchies: little bit of food before it's ready. Usually meat but as I'm cooking pancakes I just gave some pinchies and it reminded me of this thread
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    • khannie@lemmy.worldK [email protected]

      Mine has a few that I can think of but I'm definitely forgetting some:

      • Snig: a secret stash. Usually of cash but it could be chocolate or whatever. Pretty sure this one is unique but I'd love to hear otherwise.
      • Sero: (seero) seriously. This one isn't unique.
      • James floody (flew-dy) ah-doody amen: Weird chant in the hope that something comes true.
      • edit: pinchies: little bit of food before it's ready. Usually meat but as I'm cooking pancakes I just gave some pinchies and it reminded me of this thread
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      Did you make that cake or is it boughten?

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      • khannie@lemmy.worldK [email protected]

        Mine has a few that I can think of but I'm definitely forgetting some:

        • Snig: a secret stash. Usually of cash but it could be chocolate or whatever. Pretty sure this one is unique but I'd love to hear otherwise.
        • Sero: (seero) seriously. This one isn't unique.
        • James floody (flew-dy) ah-doody amen: Weird chant in the hope that something comes true.
        • edit: pinchies: little bit of food before it's ready. Usually meat but as I'm cooking pancakes I just gave some pinchies and it reminded me of this thread
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        Well burn that bridge when we come to it

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        • khannie@lemmy.worldK [email protected]

          Mine has a few that I can think of but I'm definitely forgetting some:

          • Snig: a secret stash. Usually of cash but it could be chocolate or whatever. Pretty sure this one is unique but I'd love to hear otherwise.
          • Sero: (seero) seriously. This one isn't unique.
          • James floody (flew-dy) ah-doody amen: Weird chant in the hope that something comes true.
          • edit: pinchies: little bit of food before it's ready. Usually meat but as I'm cooking pancakes I just gave some pinchies and it reminded me of this thread
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          I recently learned that one of the older men in my family does, in fact, have and use a poop knife.

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            I recently learned that one of the older men in my family does, in fact, have and use a poop knife.

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            should remind him enlarged bowels are very popular within the pegging community.

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            • khannie@lemmy.worldK [email protected]

              Mine has a few that I can think of but I'm definitely forgetting some:

              • Snig: a secret stash. Usually of cash but it could be chocolate or whatever. Pretty sure this one is unique but I'd love to hear otherwise.
              • Sero: (seero) seriously. This one isn't unique.
              • James floody (flew-dy) ah-doody amen: Weird chant in the hope that something comes true.
              • edit: pinchies: little bit of food before it's ready. Usually meat but as I'm cooking pancakes I just gave some pinchies and it reminded me of this thread
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              The idiom "fleshed out" confuses foreigners and children.

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              • khannie@lemmy.worldK [email protected]

                Mine has a few that I can think of but I'm definitely forgetting some:

                • Snig: a secret stash. Usually of cash but it could be chocolate or whatever. Pretty sure this one is unique but I'd love to hear otherwise.
                • Sero: (seero) seriously. This one isn't unique.
                • James floody (flew-dy) ah-doody amen: Weird chant in the hope that something comes true.
                • edit: pinchies: little bit of food before it's ready. Usually meat but as I'm cooking pancakes I just gave some pinchies and it reminded me of this thread
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                My kids say "tomorrow after that day" instead of the day after tomorrow; my oldest came up with it as a toddler and it just stuck.

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                • miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.comM [email protected]

                  Did you make that cake or is it boughten?

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                  Are they Pennsylvania Dutch?

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                    Are they Pennsylvania Dutch?

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                    No. Ultimately German going back to 1800's, then United Empire Loyalists who settled in Niagara area. A lot of farms, quite a few Mennonites, so there's that kind of influence.

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                    • miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.comM [email protected]

                      No. Ultimately German going back to 1800's, then United Empire Loyalists who settled in Niagara area. A lot of farms, quite a few Mennonites, so there's that kind of influence.

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                      That's pretty close actually! Despite the name, Pennsylvania Dutch would be better translated as Pennsylvania German. "Boughtten a cake" wouldn't surprise me at all, as we grew up saying things like "outten the lights".

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                        My kids say "tomorrow after that day" instead of the day after tomorrow; my oldest came up with it as a toddler and it just stuck.

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                        Love this one!

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                          Mine has a few that I can think of but I'm definitely forgetting some:

                          • Snig: a secret stash. Usually of cash but it could be chocolate or whatever. Pretty sure this one is unique but I'd love to hear otherwise.
                          • Sero: (seero) seriously. This one isn't unique.
                          • James floody (flew-dy) ah-doody amen: Weird chant in the hope that something comes true.
                          • edit: pinchies: little bit of food before it's ready. Usually meat but as I'm cooking pancakes I just gave some pinchies and it reminded me of this thread
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                          Bingpot!

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                          • khannie@lemmy.worldK [email protected]

                            Mine has a few that I can think of but I'm definitely forgetting some:

                            • Snig: a secret stash. Usually of cash but it could be chocolate or whatever. Pretty sure this one is unique but I'd love to hear otherwise.
                            • Sero: (seero) seriously. This one isn't unique.
                            • James floody (flew-dy) ah-doody amen: Weird chant in the hope that something comes true.
                            • edit: pinchies: little bit of food before it's ready. Usually meat but as I'm cooking pancakes I just gave some pinchies and it reminded me of this thread
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                            When I was a kid my mom called something newly cleaned or washed "brand clean".

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                            • khannie@lemmy.worldK [email protected]

                              Mine has a few that I can think of but I'm definitely forgetting some:

                              • Snig: a secret stash. Usually of cash but it could be chocolate or whatever. Pretty sure this one is unique but I'd love to hear otherwise.
                              • Sero: (seero) seriously. This one isn't unique.
                              • James floody (flew-dy) ah-doody amen: Weird chant in the hope that something comes true.
                              • edit: pinchies: little bit of food before it's ready. Usually meat but as I'm cooking pancakes I just gave some pinchies and it reminded me of this thread
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                              We don't feel "a bit off" or "confused."

                              We get "discombobulated." Now, I don't think it's necessarily weird for the whole country, but AFAIK, it's something usually heard in the Midwest. We're Californian.

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                                Mine has a few that I can think of but I'm definitely forgetting some:

                                • Snig: a secret stash. Usually of cash but it could be chocolate or whatever. Pretty sure this one is unique but I'd love to hear otherwise.
                                • Sero: (seero) seriously. This one isn't unique.
                                • James floody (flew-dy) ah-doody amen: Weird chant in the hope that something comes true.
                                • edit: pinchies: little bit of food before it's ready. Usually meat but as I'm cooking pancakes I just gave some pinchies and it reminded me of this thread
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                                One does not simply give a bear a bounce house.

                                Ok I lied we don't really say that but I'm trying to make it happen

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                                  One does not simply give a bear a bounce house.

                                  Ok I lied we don't really say that but I'm trying to make it happen

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                                  I am with you. I like this one a lot.

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                                  • khannie@lemmy.worldK [email protected]

                                    Mine has a few that I can think of but I'm definitely forgetting some:

                                    • Snig: a secret stash. Usually of cash but it could be chocolate or whatever. Pretty sure this one is unique but I'd love to hear otherwise.
                                    • Sero: (seero) seriously. This one isn't unique.
                                    • James floody (flew-dy) ah-doody amen: Weird chant in the hope that something comes true.
                                    • edit: pinchies: little bit of food before it's ready. Usually meat but as I'm cooking pancakes I just gave some pinchies and it reminded me of this thread
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                                    "Barfer" for a compost waste container.

                                    "Squirtlet" for a small squeeze container of drink concentrate.

                                    Both things that don't have a short standard name, so one was improvised and caught on.

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                                      We don't feel "a bit off" or "confused."

                                      We get "discombobulated." Now, I don't think it's necessarily weird for the whole country, but AFAIK, it's something usually heard in the Midwest. We're Californian.

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                                      I didn't realize this is a midwestern thing. Grew up with this term in Wisconsin

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                                      • khannie@lemmy.worldK [email protected]

                                        Mine has a few that I can think of but I'm definitely forgetting some:

                                        • Snig: a secret stash. Usually of cash but it could be chocolate or whatever. Pretty sure this one is unique but I'd love to hear otherwise.
                                        • Sero: (seero) seriously. This one isn't unique.
                                        • James floody (flew-dy) ah-doody amen: Weird chant in the hope that something comes true.
                                        • edit: pinchies: little bit of food before it's ready. Usually meat but as I'm cooking pancakes I just gave some pinchies and it reminded me of this thread
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                                        A neologism my mother taught me as I was first learning to talk (and eat) was 'clurt'

                                        If you are eating something that is drippy like yogurt or soup you need to clurt your spoon before you put it in your mouth. Grew up saying this and was always confused when people didn't understand what I was talking about

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