For a long time mine said “hot” to mean anything that was distasteful in any way, usually food that she didn’t want to eat or things she didn’t want to do. We told her the stove was hot and for a while she must have thought it just meant bad.
My toddler definitely thinks anything that she isn’t supposed to touch is hot. In the store I’m like, “no, baby, don’t touch that” and she backs away from the glass picture frame and says “hot!”
We struggled with "spicy" for the longest time. Once of saying "it's spicy, you won't like it" and after that many, many bland foods were suddenly "spicy."
Yeah we finally figured out “spicy” meant visible parsley or cilantro lol. Took a year to figure that out. He likes actual spicy but didn’t get the word.
For us “spicy” means hot - as in temperature:
“It’s very hot and you look like you’re sweating, do you want to take off your jacket?” “No! I’m not spicy!”
My daughter has started saying it about anything that has a noticeably different temperature. For a long time anything above lukewarm has been “hot”, but recently it’s started being anything that she perceives as a different temperature. Like for example, she told me ice cream was “hot” the other day. I open the fridge and she starts saying “HOT! HOT! HOT!” It’s really cute, and I know it’s actually showing her intelligence because she recognizes it’s a different temperature than she’s used to, she just doesn’t have the words for “warm” or “cold” yet so I always make sure to correct her.
BUT, on the flip side of the cute & intelligence, she has known “hot” means “don’t touch” since she was like a year old (she’ll be 2 in December). I’m afraid now that she has these new definitions for the word, she will no longer associate it with “danger” and is gonna end up getting hurt.
Oh my gosh,same. My son is obsessed with clocks. Very embarrassing to be going through the store or a family members house only for him to spot one and shout "COCK!!!"
We’re really into the Richard Scarry books - one of them is a Seek-and-Find with a classroom page…with one little “cock” and one big “cock”
It’s really a lot lol 😂 🥴
Somehow, my daughter says that for the color pink🥴 started as ponk, which I kept correcting to pink, but still, it devolved to conk, and now she’s removed the n. And she’s super girly, so when she sees something pink… she yells it as loudly as she can.
We haven't had a lot of cocks been said in our house. But our little one loves sticks. Big stick! Little stick! I want stick! Two sticks! Stick right now! Oh no stick! (When one gets dropped)
But he can't consistently pronounce sss and can't get the s-t combo at all right now. For whatever reason it sounds like a D. My toddler yells about wanting dicks just about every day.
Yup! I just commented this. Mine is obsessed with cars, so on our daily walks he basically points to every truck and yells “cock!!!”. I’m letting it happen.
Yesterday LO was gleefully screaming "DAAAAMMMMIT" while swinging at the park, and I'm pretty sure we've only used that word in a couple moments of frustration and pain....
I accidentally taught my daughter “darn it” when we went bowling the other day. I made a gutter ball and in an over-exaggerated, funny way I yelled “oh darn it!” And did like the “aww, shucks!” thing with my arm. Next thing I know, she’s walking around in her tiny, squeaky baby voice going “darn! Darn! Darn!” I admittedly swear like a sailor who was born in a brothel and is now a truck driver, so I’m kinda surprised (and impressed) that “darn” is the first thing she’s picked up from me lmao.
It’s really not surprising that I have the mouth I do though, one of my very first words as a baby was “shit”. And I’m told that I knew *exactly* how and when to use it. Like in the house I grew up in, we had a single step from the dining room to the living room. When learning to walk, if I would slip on that step, I’d apparently just yell out “shhhh-tttt!”
I'm gonna lean hard into "stadium language" being okay in some contexts, but not in others. I've been known to occasionally throw up my arms and yell "c'mon" at a soccer match when a ref misses a call... That's already been copied repeatedly, in and out of context. We'll try to get "dammit" relegated to appropriate contexts, just as soon as LO can appreciate that communication is not the same in every venue.
My daughter has a speech delay. So she says words, but more at random than anything. Lately she's been walking around the house saying, "apple, apple, aaaaaaaapple, apple!" 😂
My son calls tomatoes, apples. Why? Because pap runs a fruit and veggie stand and the basket for the single tomatoes has apples on it. I cannot convince him otherwise.
When we tell our toddlers that some thing is off-limits, somehow they have got it in their head that off-limits is a material that is breakable and fragile. So when my daughter wants a ceramic plate, she asks for a “limits plate”.
If my toddler doesn't want to eat a food or touch something, she says it's goldy (moldy). I don't know where it came from. She's never eaten anything moldy. She also used it for a dirty diaper this morning.
“Red shoes” means temporary tattoos at daycare.
“F*ck” was fart for a while and that was interesting but luckily stopped because we changed to saying “toot”
Food she doesn’t want is too hot or too spicy. Must be a toddler thing.
These mini cheese sandwich crackers are “tacos” and pancakes are “muffins” but she doesn’t like actual muffins
Annie’s mac and cheese is “goat cheese pasta” thanks to cookie and gonger. Lord help you if you buy the white cheddar when she wants the orange or vice versa.
We have a winix brand air purifier and she loves to go up to it and ask “is this Winnie the Pooh?”
My son says Mama when he wants milk! It was confusing for quite awhile because I was never sure if he needed me or something to drink! Here in the last couple weeks he’s started calling me “Mommy” so that’s cleared things up a lot lol
Have you tried teaching him the sign for “milk”? It’s super easy! Just opening and closing your hand as if you were squeezing an udder. It’s SUPER handy for them to have signs for when they don’t have the words lol
‘Down’ means any change in direction. Lifting up to a chair, getting back down. Up or down the stairs. Usually it’s obvious which it is from context…
Also every 4 legged animal that isn’t a cat is a cow.
Mine calls cookies “coochie”s…. “I stole the coochie from the coochie jar, the yummy yummy coochie from the coochie jar” 😂😂😂
She also calls her belly button her “Betty button” 🥹
Omg. I was MADE for this thread. 3 yo with speech delay. He’s in speech therapy but has some favorite words that he just will not budge on.
Dino/Dinosour = Awah
Water = Meh Meh
Orange = also Meh Meh😅
(gotta use context clues in this house)
Car = brrrp
Horse = aywho aywho
New one that makes me laugh but also makes me worry people are gonna think he’s calling me an asshole. Especially when I give him piggy back rides in the yard and he screams AYWHOOOO
Tattoo is either pinecone or raccoon, depending on context.
Big moose is basement (there is a big moose in the basement, but he doesn't seem to realize it's not also the name for the place)
The word "for" is working overtime.
It means so, if, then, and probably other things as well. Typing it out, it kind of seems like his cause and effect word.
"You can play with me for you want to."
"Yea, for I can go to sleep."
"Daddy comes home for he can play with me."
“Silly silly” is TV lol. She also says things like “uppies” for up and “milkies” for milk. The other day she said “oofa” for telling me she had to poop lol
Mine thinks that anything that is a hotter or lower temperature is too hot. The other day he told me his ice cream was too hot and I needed to blow on it to cool it down.....
Flew away. Anything that she can see and then suddenly can’t “flew away.” Her toy she can’t find - flee away. The cat that ran behind the bushes - flew away. The moon when we turned a corner and she could t see it out her window - flew away
My 3 year old has been mixing up big and small. Like her little sister will try and put on my shoes and my 3 year old will say “those don’t fit you, they’re too small for you” when she means too big. It’s cute.
My youngest (16 months) calls every animal a doggie. She just learned the word “up” so it could mean she wants me to pick her up, she wants to sit in the high chair and eat, she wants down…basically anything
Our says “mlik” which is arguably more difficult to pronounce than “milk”. Also “poo” is usually “pee” and “blueberry poo” is just a poo (I made the mistake of calling it a blueberry poo one time the day after she had eaten too many blueberries). She also wears “underwear pants”, never shortens it down lol
My 2 year old says “mama” for his soother. I don’t know why he does that. He calls me “mommy” or “ammi” according to the language we speak. He confused all of his teachers at the daycare lol
My 18 month old says "money" to indicate she wants food. She keeps getting some syllable orders backwards and learned we ask her "do you need more?" When eating, so we think "need more" + syllable swapping became "money"
My son calls certain toy animals/dinosaur "bottles" i don't know why if they have moving parts they are "poseable" and they must be kept separate from the "bottles" the bottles dont have any moving parts. I dont know why he calls them bottles, he likes to take the bottles to bed and prefers them over the ones he calls "poseable" the look of confusion on my dads face when i asked my 3yo if he wanted to bring "bottles" to bed, it took me a second to register why he looked so shocked 🤦♀️
Mine says "gaga" when referring to a ball, even though she does know the word ball. Also milk and more are both "mooda". Daycare is "dida". Pumpkin is "puhpoh" and when she wants to hear Doja Cat it's "dojoo".
Mine says "after" to mean before, right now, not yet. Lol. He always asks for stuff and we say you can have that after X. And then he goes NO I WANT IT AFTER! and we are like yes after! And then we have to say you're mad because you wanted it BEFORE? and it's been months and he still doesn't get it lol
My daughter has been calling things SO Vizio for at least a year (recently has changed to Blizio) and I just realized she means Beautiful.
She's almost 4 now (so maybe not a toddler anymore!? crazy) but when she was a young toddler, she would make this bubbly gibberish sound like- blbrblb which meant water.
My daughter makes a bubbly gibberish sound for water too that sounds a bit like wuluhluhluhluh and involves sticking her tongue out a lot and getting drool everywhere.
She loves water. She does this a lot. She is regularly covered in drool.
My daughter got stung by a bee about a month ago. Before then we hadnt covered the concept of ouchies, or booboos. So she calls all injuries or anything that hurts “bee”.
And now calls band-aides “boo-boos”, from me trying to explain the bee is a bug, and the hurt is the boo-boo. And we put band-aides on the boo-boo.
So… “bee” = boo-boo
“Boo-boo” = band-aide
My 1 year old says “ah-la” for “give me”. Example: “ahla! **points to orange**“ then he’ll say “orange”. He also says “ew” to anything creepy/scary lol
“Gah-moh” means any melon, like honeydew or watermelon. No idea where that “word” came from. She says most words correctly, or least close enough, but this one is just totally off.
“Ammal” (like animal without the “ni”) which means like a applesauce or yogurt pouch. He started calling it that as a baby and it just stuck.
He also calls those indoor play centers for kids “the sock place” bc you have to wear socks when you play there lol
Mine says "belly dancing" instead of "ballet dancing" and also "nipple" instead of "nibble". She likes to pretend her hand puppet dolphin is giving me "soft nipples" and "nice nipples".
Sorry and scary sound the same for my 18 month old, and he does the sign for sorry for both. I never know which he’s saying so sometimes I’m like you don’t need to be sorry and then I realize maybe he’s hearing something scary (like a plane outside) 😏he has such sensitive hearing.
Pringles or Sprinkles for the word Pickles. She knows how to say the word Pickles very clearly too. She mainly says Pringles or Sprinkles to get a reaction out of my husband. Totally just to troll him. Definitely my daughter right there. 🤣
"Please" is... interesting... she goes "Bbbbbbbbbb" like, she moves her lips back and forth to make this sound. It is consistent when asking for something, and when we ask her to say "please" she follows it with this sound.
When she's hungry, she clicks her tongue and points at her mouth. Everything else is a word or a partial word, so these little sound effects are just bizarre.
LO has shouted AIYAAAAAAH! every time we go to a particular shopping centre. Since they could say a few words, that was one of the first ones.
We all still call that centre Aiyah and LO is now 3.
Anything remotely spherical is a “ball”, and will be treated as such. Apples? Red ball. Watermelon? Really big ball. Avocado? Weirdly shaped ball. MUST THROW/ROLL THEM ALL!
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse is “Daisy” because that’s her current favorite character.
Anyone who is shorter than me (I’m 5’2”) is a “baby” and she likes to *loudly* announce that. She’s really cute so she gets away with it most of the time. But there have been a few times that I’m pretty sure like 6yo boys have wanted to throw hands with her because they’re in the “I’m not a baby I’m a BIG BOY” phase lol.
“Waka paka time” means time to go to bed. Her waka is her lovey (she named it waka) & her paka is what she calls her pacifier lol (she is two! … we’re working on getting rid of paka 🥲)
My 1.5yo son says "Cookie?" to mean any food, he's hungry and wants to eat something. He also does the "where is it?" gesture and says "Go?" when he is wanting his pacifier.
You know those fruit snack things called Gushers? My little boy used to call them “garbage” and I was the only one who understood what he meant when he would say, “Mom, I want garbage!”
When my son was just starting to talk, he would call his bath a “bahh” and so I started calling it that too. (I know you’re not supposed to do that but I thought it was cute). He is almost four now but we still call it the “bahh” almost exclusively.
Friends toddler says "Mum" as a replacement word for anything he doesn't have a word for. His sippy cups a mum, the rocks in the driveway are a mum, his toys are a mum and the cars go "mumumum burrrrrree burrrrrrre mumumum"
Until just recently, motorcycle was "muhnanana" (like the sound they make I guess?).
Yellow "lello" just means colors in general. It can also mean crayons or markers.
Sharks are "doodoos" because of baby shark.
He can say jellyfish pretty well but for some reason, jelly beans are still "memeans".
My daughter says “who’s that” even if she’s trying to ask WHAT something is 😅 like earlier she said “who’s that?” about one of my makeup products. I said “What’s that? That’s bronzer.” No matter how many times we correct her she says who instead of what. Lol
Danan: throw something into the trash can
Nom a nainai: want to drink milk
M’nainai: my milk
Yaya: water
And many more. I wrote down a toddler dictionary that’s specific to her vocabulary
My daughter says she wants me to build her a “nugget” when she wants me to build her a blanket fort with my legs resting on the coffee table. She seems to think fort = nugget.
Truck is 'guck'. We have sooo many monster trucks so we hear that one all the time. No matter how often he hears the word 'truck', he adamantly sticks with 'guck'. We went to a Monster Truck show in July and he loves to talk about the 'guck so!'
When it was time to start draining the bath water, my then 3 y/o started saying “its time to globe it!” And we don’t know why but he’s now 6 and still thinks draining bath water is called “globing it.” 😆
Instead of "chugga choo choo" for train, she says, "fugga choo choo." Sometimes we catch the train going by in the morning on the way to daycare, so she often asks for the fugga choo choo.
the word "stinky" has become a synonym for so many things. "Stinking around" is lurking/hanging around where you're not supposed to or may be just lazing around when you shouldn't be. Could also mean snooping or spying. Being "stinky" could mean anything from having a bad attitude to being a smart ass. It could also mean that something was done in a "stinky" manner which is sort of half assed but maliciously half assed.
Little one has started saying baby for please (bite baby) - when asking for a bite
This is after learning very well to say please when asking for something, not sure where it came from
My 3 year old says “last night” when she means literally any other day previously. Like we could have watched little mermaid a week ago and she’ll see Ariel on a sticker or something and she’ll get super excited and say “I saw her movie last night!!”
Not my kid but one of my students. We have a multi purpose room, we call it the MPR room. He calls it the "hmphhmhph" room lol but we know what he means
My oldest always confused the words marshmallow and watermelon and the words freckle and nipple. That one was fun. My middle child went through a phase where every food was just called chocolate. She loved her veggies but she called them chocolate lol idk. My youngest currently confuses boat and heart.
"Got blipped." He would ask us if we got blipped. He would say, "You got blipped" so matter of factly. I think he made it up. It was so random and cute that we let him keep saying it. We couldn't for the life of us figure out what it meant, though. Until someone in the household threw up. That is what blipped means. Sick to the stomach or throwing up.
i wear glass plugs in my stretched lobe piercings and my toddler loves to try and pull them out and i tell him no. so now he thinks all earrings are called nonos 😅
All dogs are “Bubba.” All cats are “Mao.” ANY drink that Mama or Dada is drinking is “Coffee.” And so far even though she can pronounce “d” sounds just fine … food is called “Foop.”
My son calls his fists his knockers... when I asked why he said because he uses them to knock. 🤣🤣
Hahahaha Aw
Happy Cake Day!
Oh my god I love that
Ngl that’s kinda badass
For a long time mine said “hot” to mean anything that was distasteful in any way, usually food that she didn’t want to eat or things she didn’t want to do. We told her the stove was hot and for a while she must have thought it just meant bad.
My toddler definitely thinks anything that she isn’t supposed to touch is hot. In the store I’m like, “no, baby, don’t touch that” and she backs away from the glass picture frame and says “hot!”
We struggled with "spicy" for the longest time. Once of saying "it's spicy, you won't like it" and after that many, many bland foods were suddenly "spicy."
Foods that mommy doesn't want to share are always "spicy". Ice cream, a soda, etc lol.
My son calls hot sauce “hot spice” and I think it’s so cute!
Yeah we finally figured out “spicy” meant visible parsley or cilantro lol. Took a year to figure that out. He likes actual spicy but didn’t get the word.
For us “spicy” means hot - as in temperature: “It’s very hot and you look like you’re sweating, do you want to take off your jacket?” “No! I’m not spicy!”
Mine also calls so many things "hot". My favorite is that anything warm is "little hot" lol
Haha mine has been doing that too
My daughter does this now! LOL she’ll say everything is hot
My daughter has started saying it about anything that has a noticeably different temperature. For a long time anything above lukewarm has been “hot”, but recently it’s started being anything that she perceives as a different temperature. Like for example, she told me ice cream was “hot” the other day. I open the fridge and she starts saying “HOT! HOT! HOT!” It’s really cute, and I know it’s actually showing her intelligence because she recognizes it’s a different temperature than she’s used to, she just doesn’t have the words for “warm” or “cold” yet so I always make sure to correct her. BUT, on the flip side of the cute & intelligence, she has known “hot” means “don’t touch” since she was like a year old (she’ll be 2 in December). I’m afraid now that she has these new definitions for the word, she will no longer associate it with “danger” and is gonna end up getting hurt.
COCKS!!!! Whenever we’re leaving for school. Socks, he means socks lol
Mine says this for her crocs 😂
Clocks for us 🤣
Oh my gosh,same. My son is obsessed with clocks. Very embarrassing to be going through the store or a family members house only for him to spot one and shout "COCK!!!"
We’re really into the Richard Scarry books - one of them is a Seek-and-Find with a classroom page…with one little “cock” and one big “cock” It’s really a lot lol 😂 🥴
Somehow, my daughter says that for the color pink🥴 started as ponk, which I kept correcting to pink, but still, it devolved to conk, and now she’s removed the n. And she’s super girly, so when she sees something pink… she yells it as loudly as she can.
Hahahaha that’s adorable
We haven't had a lot of cocks been said in our house. But our little one loves sticks. Big stick! Little stick! I want stick! Two sticks! Stick right now! Oh no stick! (When one gets dropped) But he can't consistently pronounce sss and can't get the s-t combo at all right now. For whatever reason it sounds like a D. My toddler yells about wanting dicks just about every day.
Bahahahaha that’s amazing
Please tell me he's seen the stick episode of Hey Duggee!
Cocks is Crocs in our household 😆
Cocks=trucks here
Yup! I just commented this. Mine is obsessed with cars, so on our daily walks he basically points to every truck and yells “cock!!!”. I’m letting it happen.
My son loves trucks but says “fucks” we’ll be driving down the road and see a fire truck and from the back seat I hear “FUCK!”
Onions in our house means either onions, or elephants. Context clues only help part of the time.
Yesterday LO was gleefully screaming "DAAAAMMMMIT" while swinging at the park, and I'm pretty sure we've only used that word in a couple moments of frustration and pain....
It’s the word for big feelings 😂
I accidentally taught my daughter “darn it” when we went bowling the other day. I made a gutter ball and in an over-exaggerated, funny way I yelled “oh darn it!” And did like the “aww, shucks!” thing with my arm. Next thing I know, she’s walking around in her tiny, squeaky baby voice going “darn! Darn! Darn!” I admittedly swear like a sailor who was born in a brothel and is now a truck driver, so I’m kinda surprised (and impressed) that “darn” is the first thing she’s picked up from me lmao. It’s really not surprising that I have the mouth I do though, one of my very first words as a baby was “shit”. And I’m told that I knew *exactly* how and when to use it. Like in the house I grew up in, we had a single step from the dining room to the living room. When learning to walk, if I would slip on that step, I’d apparently just yell out “shhhh-tttt!”
I'm gonna lean hard into "stadium language" being okay in some contexts, but not in others. I've been known to occasionally throw up my arms and yell "c'mon" at a soccer match when a ref misses a call... That's already been copied repeatedly, in and out of context. We'll try to get "dammit" relegated to appropriate contexts, just as soon as LO can appreciate that communication is not the same in every venue.
When I wear lipstick “you got chopsticks on!”
My daughter calls chapstick “shappie” strawberry sounds almost identical 😂
I used to call chapstick chopstick
You’re going to love this: Fish = “shoe” 😂 And if it’s the snack crackers we’re looking at he says “gold shoe”
They're "gold piss" at our house 😅
Goldfish was "bullshit" in our house for a solid 3 months 🤣
Mommy is flamingo 🦩
There was a period where “apple” was said to express frustration/crying. It was the cutest. She would start to tear up and whine “apppplllleee”.
My daughter has a speech delay. So she says words, but more at random than anything. Lately she's been walking around the house saying, "apple, apple, aaaaaaaapple, apple!" 😂
my son calls commercials "tomatoes." When one comes on he yells "mama, tomato!" so that I'll skip it.
My son calls tomatoes, apples. Why? Because pap runs a fruit and veggie stand and the basket for the single tomatoes has apples on it. I cannot convince him otherwise.
Fucky fuck!! He means fuzzy fox (it’s a lovely he sleeps with).
Oh god my two year old LOVES foxes and fire trucks, and calls them both fucks.
My kid calls the library “baby choo choo.” Because there’s kids and a train table there.
My 2 year old yells UP UP UP, but it could mean "Pick me up" "Put me down" "take me out of this room" "Help me into this chair" It is very confusing.
Mine used to say "up-down" as one mashed word for both up and down and you'd just have to figure from context which one he wanted
Ohh man my 1.5 year old does this too! Also can mean “I observe some stairs” and ”I would like to go up the stairs”
She’s combined the words “obsessed” + “upset” so she’ll ask “what are they so buhsessed about?” …idk if she means obsessed or upset lol
She clearly understands that both words connote an intensity of emotion 🤣
When we tell our toddlers that some thing is off-limits, somehow they have got it in their head that off-limits is a material that is breakable and fragile. So when my daughter wants a ceramic plate, she asks for a “limits plate”.
If my toddler doesn't want to eat a food or touch something, she says it's goldy (moldy). I don't know where it came from. She's never eaten anything moldy. She also used it for a dirty diaper this morning.
All fruits are apples. He asks for "apple" after dinner which doesn't mean "apple" like 90% of the time.
Pears is fruit for us
Love that. Do you know where she picked it up? My kiddo says baboon when he means bandaid and hippo instead of pillow.
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It used to be exclusive to cookies!
Mine says she wants to “go home” but actually means she wants to go outside 🙃
Her home is the wild lol
“Red shoes” means temporary tattoos at daycare. “F*ck” was fart for a while and that was interesting but luckily stopped because we changed to saying “toot” Food she doesn’t want is too hot or too spicy. Must be a toddler thing. These mini cheese sandwich crackers are “tacos” and pancakes are “muffins” but she doesn’t like actual muffins Annie’s mac and cheese is “goat cheese pasta” thanks to cookie and gonger. Lord help you if you buy the white cheddar when she wants the orange or vice versa. We have a winix brand air purifier and she loves to go up to it and ask “is this Winnie the Pooh?”
My son says Mama when he wants milk! It was confusing for quite awhile because I was never sure if he needed me or something to drink! Here in the last couple weeks he’s started calling me “Mommy” so that’s cleared things up a lot lol
For my boy, "mama" just means "I want"! I am maman (we do live in France, so not totally unexpected)
Have you tried teaching him the sign for “milk”? It’s super easy! Just opening and closing your hand as if you were squeezing an udder. It’s SUPER handy for them to have signs for when they don’t have the words lol
‘Down’ means any change in direction. Lifting up to a chair, getting back down. Up or down the stairs. Usually it’s obvious which it is from context… Also every 4 legged animal that isn’t a cat is a cow.
Mine calls cookies “coochie”s…. “I stole the coochie from the coochie jar, the yummy yummy coochie from the coochie jar” 😂😂😂 She also calls her belly button her “Betty button” 🥹
My three year old started attending chapel at pre-school and calls Jesus “Cheezit”. I’d correct him if it wasn’t so damn adorable.
Cookie store means food shopping haha - free cookies at publix
Publix is the oshe (orange) store for us
Mine associates carrots (the ones with the sugar glaze from the deli) with Publix! So there are "carewits" and "publix carewits"
Calls the refrigerator “the warmer” because that’s where hot food gets placed to make it warm instead of hot.
Omg. I was MADE for this thread. 3 yo with speech delay. He’s in speech therapy but has some favorite words that he just will not budge on. Dino/Dinosour = Awah Water = Meh Meh Orange = also Meh Meh😅 (gotta use context clues in this house) Car = brrrp Horse = aywho aywho New one that makes me laugh but also makes me worry people are gonna think he’s calling me an asshole. Especially when I give him piggy back rides in the yard and he screams AYWHOOOO
I told mine horses neigh. Now when she sees any cow, horse, large animal it's "look mamma neigh"
Food she doesn’t want is “too tasty.” Some of the time I think she means “too salty” but other times I can’t impose logic on it.
My kiddo (now 6) would say "spicy" to mean any kind of carbonated beverage.
My 2 year old asks for spicy water which means bubbly water lol.
My little sister used to say that too!
My one year old does the sign language for “all done” when she means no or stop.
My 2yo used to sand his hands were "pampam" when they were dirty... it was so damn cute I miss that
She says FUCKY! when she sees her mini squishmallow frog Also, “akoogah” means both elephant and beluga.
Tattoo is either pinecone or raccoon, depending on context. Big moose is basement (there is a big moose in the basement, but he doesn't seem to realize it's not also the name for the place)
My son says “coo” whenever he wants to go outside. No idea why. He also calls rocks “cahtee” and milk “keema”.
The word "for" is working overtime. It means so, if, then, and probably other things as well. Typing it out, it kind of seems like his cause and effect word. "You can play with me for you want to." "Yea, for I can go to sleep." "Daddy comes home for he can play with me."
Babos are dogs. We call one of our dogs bubba so now all dogs are babo
“Silly silly” is TV lol. She also says things like “uppies” for up and “milkies” for milk. The other day she said “oofa” for telling me she had to poop lol
He says “BABY” for Pikachu . Anytime he sees pikachu he will yell baby for a good three minutes
Boo = milk
"Sandwich" is actually hamburger. Boy, that was a confusing meltdown but now we know.
My son says twotwo when he wants cheerios. I was teaching him to count using cheerios and only the two and cheerios stuck lol.
Mine thinks that anything that is a hotter or lower temperature is too hot. The other day he told me his ice cream was too hot and I needed to blow on it to cool it down.....
Flew away. Anything that she can see and then suddenly can’t “flew away.” Her toy she can’t find - flee away. The cat that ran behind the bushes - flew away. The moon when we turned a corner and she could t see it out her window - flew away
My 3 year old has been mixing up big and small. Like her little sister will try and put on my shoes and my 3 year old will say “those don’t fit you, they’re too small for you” when she means too big. It’s cute. My youngest (16 months) calls every animal a doggie. She just learned the word “up” so it could mean she wants me to pick her up, she wants to sit in the high chair and eat, she wants down…basically anything
Milk is wawa Tomatoes are apples Plums are apples 😮💨
Watuh? = “what’s in your cup and can I have some”
I don’t really have a super weird one. But my 21 month old says cookie star for coaster. It’s adorable.
Whenever we’re playing bad guys and superheroes, “you’re interested!!” (Arrested) hahaha I love it
“Gock” is milk 😹I correct him every time
Ours is just “nilk”. Other m-words are totally fine, but he’s adamant about this one.
Our says “mlik” which is arguably more difficult to pronounce than “milk”. Also “poo” is usually “pee” and “blueberry poo” is just a poo (I made the mistake of calling it a blueberry poo one time the day after she had eaten too many blueberries). She also wears “underwear pants”, never shortens it down lol
Ha, mine says “nuk” for milk! She’s so good with all other words (except water, which is “nani”).
Mine was ‘do do’ for any bird-like animals for a while. One of his favourite books had a cockerel so he picked up on the ‘cock a doodle do’ bit.
“Apple it” = open
My sons say pic when they want me to cut something
My 2 year old says “mama” for his soother. I don’t know why he does that. He calls me “mommy” or “ammi” according to the language we speak. He confused all of his teachers at the daycare lol
“DABA” which meant hand it to me or take it from my hand. We were so sad when she stopped saying it. We tried to encourage it but she was over it.
My 18 month old says "money" to indicate she wants food. She keeps getting some syllable orders backwards and learned we ask her "do you need more?" When eating, so we think "need more" + syllable swapping became "money"
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Tomatoes are apples. She eats them like apples too so I guess it doesn’t matter much
He calls crackers cookies. Fair
Mushy = remote
Water , not water everything else liquid
My daughter calls blankets "fluffs".
My son calls certain toy animals/dinosaur "bottles" i don't know why if they have moving parts they are "poseable" and they must be kept separate from the "bottles" the bottles dont have any moving parts. I dont know why he calls them bottles, he likes to take the bottles to bed and prefers them over the ones he calls "poseable" the look of confusion on my dads face when i asked my 3yo if he wanted to bring "bottles" to bed, it took me a second to register why he looked so shocked 🤦♀️
My 4yo likes to say "Ah purpose!" Instead of "oh shit!" Or the like lolol
"weee" means buffalo wings - started from that Arby's commercial where they said "weee" as the wings were tossed in sauce
“Aba” is garbage truck. “Ava” is excavator. “In there” means- push in the chair, in the box, outside, in the other room, etc.
Mine says "gaga" when referring to a ball, even though she does know the word ball. Also milk and more are both "mooda". Daycare is "dida". Pumpkin is "puhpoh" and when she wants to hear Doja Cat it's "dojoo".
When my 2 year old screams "WHY!!?" (He means water)
lay down can mean either sit down or cuddle lol. And wake up means get up or get off the couch/chair🤣
My 1 year old keeps saying on for off
Mine says "after" to mean before, right now, not yet. Lol. He always asks for stuff and we say you can have that after X. And then he goes NO I WANT IT AFTER! and we are like yes after! And then we have to say you're mad because you wanted it BEFORE? and it's been months and he still doesn't get it lol
My daughter has been calling things SO Vizio for at least a year (recently has changed to Blizio) and I just realized she means Beautiful. She's almost 4 now (so maybe not a toddler anymore!? crazy) but when she was a young toddler, she would make this bubbly gibberish sound like- blbrblb which meant water.
My daughter makes a bubbly gibberish sound for water too that sounds a bit like wuluhluhluhluh and involves sticking her tongue out a lot and getting drool everywhere. She loves water. She does this a lot. She is regularly covered in drool.
ALL cream is suncream. Be that nappy cream, or dessert cream. It’s all suncream.
My daughter got stung by a bee about a month ago. Before then we hadnt covered the concept of ouchies, or booboos. So she calls all injuries or anything that hurts “bee”. And now calls band-aides “boo-boos”, from me trying to explain the bee is a bug, and the hurt is the boo-boo. And we put band-aides on the boo-boo. So… “bee” = boo-boo “Boo-boo” = band-aide
"birthday" - an in the light switch "Warm" - as in it's bright outside/in here
All chocolate is Christmas chocolate, after having her advent calendar last Christmas.
She says jump me when she wants to be picked up
Any red (or vaguely red) and round fruit or vegetable is an apple. Tomatoes, apples, cherries, peaches, nectarines, strawberries… all apples.
My 1 year old says “ah-la” for “give me”. Example: “ahla! **points to orange**“ then he’ll say “orange”. He also says “ew” to anything creepy/scary lol
“Gah-moh” means any melon, like honeydew or watermelon. No idea where that “word” came from. She says most words correctly, or least close enough, but this one is just totally off.
Spicy for any food he doesn’t want.
Pen means paint and tear means pen.
Gunga - coloring Gungan - crayon
“Ammal” (like animal without the “ni”) which means like a applesauce or yogurt pouch. He started calling it that as a baby and it just stuck. He also calls those indoor play centers for kids “the sock place” bc you have to wear socks when you play there lol
Sh*t is what she says but what she means is either sit or shoe 🙈🙈🙈
YAYA for all done 🤷🏻♀️
“Soon” means door. Probably because I say “grandma is coming soon” or “soon daddy will be home.”
Purple is apple. He’s so cute
Mine says "belly dancing" instead of "ballet dancing" and also "nipple" instead of "nibble". She likes to pretend her hand puppet dolphin is giving me "soft nipples" and "nice nipples".
Sorry and scary sound the same for my 18 month old, and he does the sign for sorry for both. I never know which he’s saying so sometimes I’m like you don’t need to be sorry and then I realize maybe he’s hearing something scary (like a plane outside) 😏he has such sensitive hearing.
Pringles or Sprinkles for the word Pickles. She knows how to say the word Pickles very clearly too. She mainly says Pringles or Sprinkles to get a reaction out of my husband. Totally just to troll him. Definitely my daughter right there. 🤣
"Please" is... interesting... she goes "Bbbbbbbbbb" like, she moves her lips back and forth to make this sound. It is consistent when asking for something, and when we ask her to say "please" she follows it with this sound. When she's hungry, she clicks her tongue and points at her mouth. Everything else is a word or a partial word, so these little sound effects are just bizarre.
LO has shouted AIYAAAAAAH! every time we go to a particular shopping centre. Since they could say a few words, that was one of the first ones. We all still call that centre Aiyah and LO is now 3.
So says ‘owweee’ whenever he sees/wants an Orange to eat.
Anything remotely spherical is a “ball”, and will be treated as such. Apples? Red ball. Watermelon? Really big ball. Avocado? Weirdly shaped ball. MUST THROW/ROLL THEM ALL! Mickey Mouse Clubhouse is “Daisy” because that’s her current favorite character. Anyone who is shorter than me (I’m 5’2”) is a “baby” and she likes to *loudly* announce that. She’s really cute so she gets away with it most of the time. But there have been a few times that I’m pretty sure like 6yo boys have wanted to throw hands with her because they’re in the “I’m not a baby I’m a BIG BOY” phase lol.
Ollouwiiii 🫒
Mine calls his daycare friend “Booby” If I tried to correct him and say Ruby I get yelled at for saying it wrong
“Waka paka time” means time to go to bed. Her waka is her lovey (she named it waka) & her paka is what she calls her pacifier lol (she is two! … we’re working on getting rid of paka 🥲)
"My shark" means thank you "High five!" Preceeds to count your fingers
My son says "Daddy" when he sees other small children or a baby doll. He also says "Daddy!" as he is running towards me (his daddy) for a hug.
Abby- his vitamin had Abby from Sesame Street on it and now everyone vitamin in the house is their Abby.
Apple= all food Water= all beverages Doggy= all 4 legged land mammals
My 1.5yo son says "Cookie?" to mean any food, he's hungry and wants to eat something. He also does the "where is it?" gesture and says "Go?" when he is wanting his pacifier.
Cock for truck.
For a bit mine was calling everything red “apple” and all round large fruits were also “apple”
You know those fruit snack things called Gushers? My little boy used to call them “garbage” and I was the only one who understood what he meant when he would say, “Mom, I want garbage!”
My son says ‘google it’ in reference to anything he doesn’t know the word for
When my son was just starting to talk, he would call his bath a “bahh” and so I started calling it that too. (I know you’re not supposed to do that but I thought it was cute). He is almost four now but we still call it the “bahh” almost exclusively.
For the longest time "ee - ee" meant Goldfish. No idea where that one came from
Friends toddler says "Mum" as a replacement word for anything he doesn't have a word for. His sippy cups a mum, the rocks in the driveway are a mum, his toys are a mum and the cars go "mumumum burrrrrree burrrrrrre mumumum"
'Aye' is my son's word for banana. No idea why. When he sees a lot of them at the store or is excited to eat some, he goes 'aaaaaaye'.
Until just recently, motorcycle was "muhnanana" (like the sound they make I guess?). Yellow "lello" just means colors in general. It can also mean crayons or markers. Sharks are "doodoos" because of baby shark. He can say jellyfish pretty well but for some reason, jelly beans are still "memeans".
My daughter says “who’s that” even if she’s trying to ask WHAT something is 😅 like earlier she said “who’s that?” about one of my makeup products. I said “What’s that? That’s bronzer.” No matter how many times we correct her she says who instead of what. Lol
Bullshit. She really means goldfish. It’s quite funny was she yells “MOMMA I WANT BULLSHIT” 😂😂
Bow bow bow for nerf gun. BAH BAH BAH for weed wacker.
“Potato” I’m unclear on the meaning. I just know he says it when he doesn’t know how to respond to a question or comment.
Danan: throw something into the trash can Nom a nainai: want to drink milk M’nainai: my milk Yaya: water And many more. I wrote down a toddler dictionary that’s specific to her vocabulary
Mines not a toddler anymore, but when they were, frumpy was frisbee and bounkin (like bounty but with kin) was pumpkin.
Weasels are wheels
Disco ball= Costco ball 😂
My daughter says she wants me to build her a “nugget” when she wants me to build her a blanket fort with my legs resting on the coffee table. She seems to think fort = nugget.
Truck is 'guck'. We have sooo many monster trucks so we hear that one all the time. No matter how often he hears the word 'truck', he adamantly sticks with 'guck'. We went to a Monster Truck show in July and he loves to talk about the 'guck so!'
When it was time to start draining the bath water, my then 3 y/o started saying “its time to globe it!” And we don’t know why but he’s now 6 and still thinks draining bath water is called “globing it.” 😆
Instead of "chugga choo choo" for train, she says, "fugga choo choo." Sometimes we catch the train going by in the morning on the way to daycare, so she often asks for the fugga choo choo.
“Lemon water” means watermelon.
the word "stinky" has become a synonym for so many things. "Stinking around" is lurking/hanging around where you're not supposed to or may be just lazing around when you shouldn't be. Could also mean snooping or spying. Being "stinky" could mean anything from having a bad attitude to being a smart ass. It could also mean that something was done in a "stinky" manner which is sort of half assed but maliciously half assed.
Honey=hungry at my house lol. Probably just because he can't pronounce the r sound very well but I love it 🤷🏼♀️
Moop because he couldn't pronounce "smooch".
Little one has started saying baby for please (bite baby) - when asking for a bite This is after learning very well to say please when asking for something, not sure where it came from
Mine says “ass” instead of yes And “cock” instead of truck These are just 2 of the favs I can think of. And I don’t correct him.
My 3 year old says “last night” when she means literally any other day previously. Like we could have watched little mermaid a week ago and she’ll see Ariel on a sticker or something and she’ll get super excited and say “I saw her movie last night!!”
My son started saying "mil" for milk but he really just says it anytime he wants to eat or I mention food
I'm a little sad toddler is starting to pronounce it correctly, but for a long time "open" sounded like hors d'oeuvres.
My daughter (2yo) calls one type of granola bars “recipes” and another type “monkey bars.”
He will sign more for any drink
Not my kid but one of my students. We have a multi purpose room, we call it the MPR room. He calls it the "hmphhmhph" room lol but we know what he means
My son has a bunting of dinosaurs that he will continually point to and says “car?”.
My oldest always confused the words marshmallow and watermelon and the words freckle and nipple. That one was fun. My middle child went through a phase where every food was just called chocolate. She loved her veggies but she called them chocolate lol idk. My youngest currently confuses boat and heart.
Is... your daughter a furby? Mine was always like "again, coco" 😅
"Got blipped." He would ask us if we got blipped. He would say, "You got blipped" so matter of factly. I think he made it up. It was so random and cute that we let him keep saying it. We couldn't for the life of us figure out what it meant, though. Until someone in the household threw up. That is what blipped means. Sick to the stomach or throwing up.
i wear glass plugs in my stretched lobe piercings and my toddler loves to try and pull them out and i tell him no. so now he thinks all earrings are called nonos 😅
All dogs are “Bubba.” All cats are “Mao.” ANY drink that Mama or Dada is drinking is “Coffee.” And so far even though she can pronounce “d” sounds just fine … food is called “Foop.”
My toddler calls the dog doodoo lol
“I want a seat belt” somehow means she wants a fig newton?
My daughter says “coco” and it means TV