Children may not have fully mastered the ins and outs of the English language, but they certainly offer some original takes on it. In fact, some of their malapropisms and creative turns of phrase are arguably better than the correct terms.
We asked members of the HuffPost Parents Facebook community to share the funny names their kids have for various things, and received an overwhelming number of responses. Read on for a hilarious sample.
1. My 7-year-old calls it the acopalisp. Melissa Kovach
2. When my son was younger, he called jalapeos halloween-peos Alex Hart Bente
3. My daughter called hangers hookers. She would yell Mom, I need a hooker! Margaret Perry
4. My son calls Hersheys Kisses chocolate hats. Sarah Ashley
5. My grandson at 4 called my pantry your food closet. And it has remained that. Carolyn Elkins
6. My son calls Pop-Tarts Bob-Tarts (he read the box upside down), and says out of balance instead of out of bounds when discussing basketball. Amanda Rodriguez
7. My daughter thought the movie Despicable Me was Dee-pickle Mimi. Elizabeth Perry Comeaux
8. My youngest son was the funniest when at a very young age instead of saying his ice cream was Neapolitan, he instead called it metropolitan. And that is what we call ice cream to this day. Trish Waddell Blevins-Taylor
9. My kids used to called popcorn cockporn, which was interesting when they told people we were going home to watch a movie and have cockporn. Hattie Harrison
10. My 4-year-old calls the windscreen wipers wind screamers. Nat Kemp
11. My daughter called her nostrils tunnels. Erin Malone Finnegan
12. One of my boys used to call sandwiches sam-bitches. Liz Krause
13. My son always asked for scream on his bagels and shoobop for his pancakes (cream cheese and syrup). Elizabeth Perry Comeaux
14. My granddaughter says lasterday, which could refer to anytime from a few hours ago to several months ago. I love it! Patti Burkardt Brewer
15. Band-Aids are damnbaids. Elizabeth Shaffer
16. For one of my sons, chicken legs were drum bomes, corn on the cob was corn bomes, and eyeballs were eye bulbs. I still call them eye bulbs. Jackie Lyon
17. My now 15-year-old used to call an ambulance a hospital bus.... I mean, she wasnt incorrect. Deanna DuVal-Grimm
18. My daughter used to call deviled eggs doubled eggs... which actually kinda made sense. Barry Elliott
19. My 4-year-old has a pair of crutches for her American Girl doll and she calls them palm sticks. My husband and I now refer to crutches as palm sticks, even when shes not around. Alexandra Pratt
20. Crop tops are crock tops. Caroline Boag Maddux
21. My little one was very disappointed to find out her TV test at the pediatrician was really a TB test. She also referred to McDonalds as the chicken nugget store until she was 6. Jennifer Langdorf
22. Instead of unplug, my daughter would say plug it out. Rebecca Weaver
23. Napkins = cappins Linda Marshall
24. While reading a book about the human body, our oldest asked what a vag-in-awe (rhymes with wag-in-awe) was. And now thats what we say, always, when referring to female anatomy. Linda Marshall
25. My 5-year-old calls toenails footnails and fingernails handnails. Also refers to sweeping as brooming. Trisha Thomas Clarke
26. My husband says refrigerator and I say fridge, so when my daughter was around 3, she started calling it the fridgadator. Lol shes 18 now, and we still say it that way. Diane Rawashda
27. When our son was not quite talking, hed ask for the dinosaur-shaped chicken nuggets by saying rawr. Even as he got older, itd be Can I have some rawr for dinner? Ashley Falkin Vail
28. My youngest daughter calls sliced chicken chicken sheets. Cindy CJ Avis Farrow
29. My son calls a mosquito a sco-be-toe. His speech therapist tried to put an end to it, but we prevailed and they will forever be a sco-be-toe. Christine Shinners Cirlin
30. Our son used to call testicles tiger toes, caterpillars were ah-boo-dees and giraffes gu-lays. Katie De Leon
31. My all-time favorite is how my son says Joe-fiss for his middle name, Joseph. Callie Van Leuven
32. My son calls milkshakes ice cream juice. Angela Pippi Costello Tatas
33. Long-sleeved pants as opposed to shorts. I guess they didnt understand why shirts were short and long-sleeved but not pants. Megan Kellander Colburn
34. My son calls cheeseburgers chipsburgers. And he says apple tree for the apple slices he eats. Brittany Vincent
35. My kids have called it hanitizer instead of hand sanitizer. I think it would be a perfect brand name. Lindsay Curtin
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