FabSwingers.com forum: What's a made up word or phrase your family say which no one else will understand

By *usman 199 OP Man
over a year ago

Stockport

Happy Bank Holiday Mondays everyone

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By *ickshawedCouple
over a year ago

Wolverhampton

"Silver plate" instead of please. Been doing that since I was very little. I don't know how it started, but I guess myself or one of my siblings failed to pronounce s'il vous plait correctly

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By *ulieAndBeefCouple
over a year ago

Manchester-ish

Not saying on here in case they are too

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"You cut, I choose" when my sis and I were growing up and there was a portion left for seconds to be shared.

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By *elix SightedMan
over a year ago

Cloud 8

"Not saying on here in case they are too

Does it start with G?!

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By *ecadent_DevonMan
over a year ago

Okehampton

Wiliky, meaning tired (shattered etc.)

And Doofah (for when we can’t remember the name of a thingymebob)

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By *opinovMan
over a year ago

Point Nemo, Cumbria

Is this one of these accidental 'Out a relative' threads?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Tumtaa, as in tomato as my little boy couldn't say 'tomato' properly. It stuck and we all still say it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Wiliky, meaning tired (shattered etc.)

And Doofah (for when we can’t remember the name of a thingymebob) "

We use doofah as well, wonder if it is a South West thing as my family are from down that was as well.

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By *orphia2003Woman
over a year ago

Tonypandy.

Futter, is a portable generator, I assume due to the phut phut noise the old petrol ones used to make.

A tumpee. The bit of hair that always sticks up.

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By *istyPeaksCouple
over a year ago

braintree

"Not saying on here in case they are too

Does it start with G?!

PMSL

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By *ulieAndBeefCouple
over a year ago

Manchester-ish

"Not saying on here in case they are too

Does it start with G?!

PMSL "

Not telling you anything ever again.

And it's not a made up word anyway, hmmph.

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By *orksRockerMan
over a year ago

Bradford

An exasperated statement my dad always used to say "Gorden Bennett". Think it was a alternative to "God in Heaven".

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By *oreplayNfuckingMan
over a year ago

llandrindod

Tizz for a babies dummy. Came from my first kid... Mum/dad "Where's your dummy? There it is" kid called them a tizz, its stuck for all 4

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By *oreplayNfuckingMan
over a year ago

llandrindod

"An exasperated statement my dad always used to say "Gorden Bennett". Think it was a alternative to "God in Heaven". "

Gordon Bennett was the governor who surrendered Singapore to the Japanese in ww2. His name became a mild swear word

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By *orksRockerMan
over a year ago

Bradford

"An exasperated statement my dad always used to say "Gorden Bennett". Think it was a alternative to "God in Heaven".

Gordon Bennett was the governor who surrendered Singapore to the Japanese in ww2. His name became a mild swear word "

Ha... Ironically, I was born in Singapore as my dad was in the RAF... That'll be it.

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By *aggonerMan
over a year ago

for a penny

"Wiliky, meaning tired (shattered etc.)

And Doofah (for when we can’t remember the name of a thingymebob)

We use doofah as well, wonder if it is a South West thing as my family are from down that was as well. "

Doofer for a thing.

Doin’s for a person.

(Midlands).

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By *agneto.Man
over a year ago

Bham

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By *EAT..85Woman
over a year ago

Nottingham

Calling someone Ann.

It is the ultimate insult that can be given and is only used in dark dark times

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Neck neck

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

Geographically disadvantaged

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