New word

[FredPuli43]

Just heard myself say "Those dogs have wonderful earsight" as they ran to the house. Earsight, eh?
Do you or, more likely, your children, ever find yourself accidentally inventing new words ?
The dogs had heard some slight noise from inside the house, instantly looked to identify where it came from, and then ran to the right door to get in to identify the source;wonderful ear and sight together, earsight!

[mrs_overall]

In our house we use the word "flunch"

It came about when Youngest Junior O was very small, and when he heard me say "what do you want for for lunch" he thought that the mid-day meal was called flunch

[excelsior-1]

my mother told me once that when i was a toddler, i called an umbrella an 'umblupper'

[seadogg]

We often refer to some celeb who is not good looking as "grotsome"

[karenmac60]

Why do we say eyesight but not earhearing???

[vodkancoke]

I say "ridonkulous" if something is...er....ridiculous!

[grasscarp]

My brother when young invented a word. When he was very angry most words he wanted to say were banned, so he came up with Mong.

[mrs_overall]

Oooh grasscarp, that is not a very PC word
When I was young we used to used that word as an insult

[grasscarp]

It cant be that bad. He did invent it (at the time)!

[missprim]

My daughter when she was young used to like fish fingers and beef burgers.
When I asked her what she would like for lunch once she said burfbingers and so beefburgers became burfbingers.
I can remember going in the butchers one day and honestly couldn't remember the proper name for them !!

[mrs_overall]

It has always been used an an insult to people with Downs Syndrome

[Nibble]

We use earsight, fredpuli!

We use the expression "to mung" when we are just hanging about doing nothing much - we are having a mung afternoon.

Our family were dreadful when we were little, for remembering the words we said as infants, and using them as we grew up - grapes were applemeats, bacon was binker - and so on.

[FredPuli43]

Nibble, it's good news that you use 'earsight'; it means I'm not quite as mad as I thought ! Earsight is a useful word; 'hearing' isn't the word for the use of sight and hearing simultaneously. It's a good portmanteau word, like 'chortle' ( from chuckle + snort).