Sunday, January 28, 2007

My kids make up words

My boys are so funny and interesting and unique; they make up words. So many, in fact, that I've started to catalog them and their sometimes funny, sometimes irreverent definitions on our whiteboard at home.

Thought I'd share a few, for your amusement.

KRACKALICKAKECKO (crack - uh - lick - uh - kek' - ko)
Utterance. No idea what it means. It's just really fun to SAY, especially in a creaky, old-person kind of voice.

BAGINGER (buh - gin' - ger)
Your "private parts" or "danger zone" as Stuart (of MadTV fame) calls it.

WHOBING (whoa' - bing)
The act of whining in a silly, melodramatic way, about absolutely nothing, incessantly, like my son Toby does at times (for example, when he doesn't feel like doing his homework.) A combination of the words "whining" and "Toby."

YESH (yesh)
"Yes," spoken creatively, with an extra consonent at the end.

FOOSCHNITZEL (foo - schnit' - zel)
An idiot or dodo, spoken gently and with good humor. I have to presume the "schnitzel" part is a genetic legacy, due to the overabundance of Germanic DNA in my sons' genepool.

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