The toddler/ preschoolers dictionary

I have been informed that we did not take Easton to the dr yesterday it was YESTERMORROW so I figured I better ask you guys to enter some correct words on here so that we can all study and get them right. Be sure to include the definition!

YESTERMORROW - can be used interchangeably for yesterday or tomorrow.

Yesterago - this is tricky- unlike YESTERMORROW it can only be used in place of yesterday.

paul nolish - Known to some as nail polish

 

Sarah didn't have capris. She had capretties. Translation- my capris are waaay sparklier and fancier than yours mom. I only had one pair that qualified as capretties. The rest of mine were plain old capris.

Marissa

 

The one I can think of off the top of my head and makes me laugh even as they are sleeping in bed is a jumpalope. AKA: trampoline

 

When my oldest was three, he pointed to a gardner and said "Look mom a chirmany (pronounced chur-man-ee)." Not understanding him (my oldest spoke clearly from 18+ months), I said "what did you say?" He said "A Chirmany!" So I said "Say that one more time?" and he said in his frustrated voice that intoned I should know EXACTLY what he was saying he yelled "CHIRMANY" as if that explained it to me. So I said "Ok aaron, a chirmany". He was quiet for a few moments and said "Mom, what's a chirmany?"

He still uses the word to describe a gardener whenever we see one. I have no idea how he came up with it or why it is still in our vocabulary but it is. Sad thing is, I use it with the twins now...

 

Kiki-owow; cat (Also pronounced kiki-offoff)
Kiki-owowowow; really exciting cat/cat shaped night light.

Bebe-owow; baby
Bebe-owowowow; really exciting baby or grandma.

 

:rotflmbo: :rotflmbo: That is too funny!
I love the capretties as well, had to say that out loud before I got it!

My favourites that I can think of right now (I'm sure I'm forgetting some);
*Hippo - a pillow. This is what Eleanor has insisted on calling pillows for about a year now, I have no idea why.
*Kangaroom - fairly obviously a kangaroo. What you might not know is it's kangaroom because they have a room in their pouch.
*Pasta cushions - ravioli/tortellini. This one was actually started by Alyssa and Bryony when they were toddlers and I passed it on to Naomi and Luke and then Eleanor and Ethan because I like it so much. Ethan will sometimes call them sofa pasta (clearly linking cushions=sofa cushions=sofa) so we might need a sub-entry in the dictionary.

 

Great thread!

Bye-Bye=car "Mommy, I want to get in the bye-bye myself"
All dolls=baby dolls
Saying hi to infants is this mumbo jumbo- "Oh cooshie, looshie...baby-bee." :huh:

 

LOL Nancy that baby talk reminds me of a couple weeks ago we were at a party and there was a little girl there who is 2.5 but a little smaller than my boys and I asked Jack if he was going to play ball with her (bc he was sizing her up and down) and he goes in this super high pitched baby voice "You go over there and get the ball...go get it, go get it" Hahahahahahah! I said Jack just talk to her, she's not a baby. We then had to step him aside and have the argument conversation that she was 2 just like him!

 

Herch other= each other

Low way= opposite of high way (I.e. Street you drive slow on)

 

In our house, you aren't playing with something, you're playwing. As in, short for "play with-ing."

Also: "I wasn't be ableing to..."

Flashmoke = flashlight.

And darn it, it is SO cute that they still add "-nin" to anything ending with an "-in" sound. Kittnin, mittnin, curtnin. And then when Ivy tries to sound all grown up and say "Certainly, Mommy" (and she does do this), it comes out "Certninly, Mommy." Tres sophisticated! :lol:

 

Milk-a-ready = milk as in "I am ready for my milk" (just stopped saying that about 2 months ago)

puca puca = still no definition to this day :unknw: and said it from the time DS could talk until he was just over 2.5 years old

chubette = female chipmunk aka the chipettes from Alvin and the chipmunks. Poor DD walks around saying "Mommy I'm a chubette" and I say "Chip-ette" because I don't want anyone teasing her in the future.

 

The girls still call goggles groggles

 

My oldest has had many good phrases, but my current favorite is "for somehow" = for some reason. Thanks to their love of construction trucks, all 3 of my boys say "beeping" for backing up. For example, if I am backing the car up, according to them, I am beeping the car.

 

Oh, and purr is a transitive verb in our house. As in, "I will purr the cat!"

 

I thought of another one:
Comprary...it means company and is usually said in the sentence of, "Mommy, I want to keep you comprary in the bathroom." Sigh.

 

LOL!! These kids crack me up!!! I have loved reading all of these!!!!! We need to come up with a sentence using these adorable words!!

 

We have pop norn here.
Also buppies, that would be bubble guppies.

 

Fabluous! As A and M say

 

DD started saying "This is delish" after eating something. Where she got this one I don't know.

 

I was just reminded of this one after watching some family movies (it's seasonal): neg knock = egg nog ardon:

 

I cannot for the life of me convince my two that it is a bathing suiT rather than a bathing SOUP.

My favorite of dd's right now is "Yes, I'm Am" said in a cute and sassy voice that I am sure I will hate when she is a teenager. I also love it when ds starts "winding me" which is really when he is "fanning me" with a little handheld fan, but it makes total sense (maybe that means I understand preschooler speak a little too much).

 

crab rangoon is crab raccoon! We eat it often so I get to hear it often! I love when he says this!

 

talater- later

Also, not new words, but "last night" can refer to last night, yesterday, last week, 2 years ago, any time in the past...

 

I thought of another one, too. One of my little ones always asks for "pup cakes" instead of cup cakes!

 

Funnel=Tunnel...not matter how many times I correct them

"Chrigger"--its a hay stacker for DH farm. They can say stacker but always seem to come back to this word and they both say it a little different so then its an argument on how to say it "right" LOL!

 

I couldn't think of any yesterday when I read this, but Logan got me today with "a park" which in his mind is the same thing as "apart". Threw me for a loop again and made me start thinking about it.

Fountains are still "mountains" too. That one gets me constantly as we live in Florida and there are no mountains, but they see them every where
My favorite was from Logan when he was little. Not a difficult one to figure out, but he loved his "banas" every morning. Mason still likes his "bitimins".
School bus gained a syllable and is a "schoola bus" still. They go to "school" though.
Everything is "yesterday" here too whether it was a month ago, five minutes prior, or is a month in the future. I'm thinking of introducing yestermorrow just so I'll know it could be past or future

I swore I would write this stuff down and I wish I had. There have been so many more and now they speak so plainly.

 

I think it's funny about yesterday, because here the twins ask almost everyday "Is this day, tomorrow?"

 

My kids always ask "will it be today, tomorrow?" They don't quite get that today/tomorrow concept.

 

catty - works for any age of cat
snuggle fest - lots of hugs and kisses at once
beller jeller farwiches - peanut butter jelly sandwiches
ocean - any amount of water, including a puddle or bathtub water. "Mom, I went under the ocean"
obens - bandaids (emphasis on the O)
gina gina bum - vagina (I tried hard to teach my kids correct anatomical terms and she still made her own up ) the more excited she is, the more ginas she adds on. it can be gina gina gina gina bum at times.
buddy la la - banana. Abby used to call it a blahlalala and Ethan a buddy. They combined it.

They crack me up every day with what they say, but I can't really think of them on demand!

 

My kids used to call sunscreen "skun-skween" (they had to get sunscreened every single morning for daycare, so we talked about it a lot). I loved that and still use it sometimes, but I get "Moommmmyyyy, it's SUNSCREEN."

They still say "other" for "else" -- as in "What other are we doing today?" and "We live in our house, but our cousins live somewhere other."

 

At our house cars are called 'goes'. So we watch the 'Go movie' or ride in mama's go or daddy's go.

 

Let's see..

pop-eye (Paci...my oldest DS coined the word when he was little and it has become a family word)
boom boom (laundry...as in the washer going boom boom)
Gramma Peek-a-doo (again oldest DS word for his grandma who 1x played peekaboo with her, thus now a family name!)
Oldest DS says rester-knot (restaurant)

 

My kids constantly ask "is today tomorrow". Hard to explain that one, that there will always be a tomorrow.

My nephew used to try and say chocolate, it came out as "****-lick"!!

 

My absolute favorite - and one my DH and I have added to our vocabulary is:

Lasterday - refers to yesterday or any day in the past that is not today. Lasterday we went to the zoo, when can we go again? (Lasterday=2 months ago) or Lasterday we went to school. (Lasterday=yesterday). Love it!

 

LOL!!!!! These are cracking me up!!! And I am totally going to order some crab raccoon this afternoon!!!!!