Did you ever make up words when you were a kid?

[Reverend Conehead]

Did you ever make up words when you were a kid. I did. I made up “moolap,” which is supposed to be what a terrible singer screams into a microphone. I had a toy mike, and I would yell “moolap” into it to make fun of bad singers.

I got curious to see if “moolap” actually was a real word. I googled it. Turns out there's a town with that name in Victoria, Australia. Maybe I should visit there. Will they be surprised to meet an American who thinks that they're a town full of bad singers?

Your turn. Did you make up any words when you were a kid?

 

[DallasEast]

I doubt we were the first to think it but my brother and I came up with "smish smash". He was 9 years old at the time and I was around five.

My mother left the two of us for a few minutes in the car (relax/it was early and not hot at all ). We were eating donuts. My brother decided to see how far he could toss one out the window. It had not hit the pavement for two seconds before a truck ran over it. Both of us yelled 'SMISH SMASH!' at the same time.

We hooped and hollered for a long time afterward. Mother may have thought we had lost it but we were laughing too hard to explain right away. It's purely silly but it is one of my best childhood memories still.

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

I made up the word Grapel but to be fair I am probably not the only one who ever used it.

I thought if their was a fruit called an Orange and the Color of the Orange was orange then I did not understand why it was not a grapel instead of a purple grape.

So if someone was going to the store and asked if I wanted any kind of snack and I wanted grapes...I would say I wanted grapels.

 

[Runwildboys]

I still do, but they're all swear words, when I'm driving.

 

[DallasEast]

I still do, but they're all swear words, when I'm driving.

I sound like Samuel L. Jackson during my road rage moments.

 

[YosemiteSam]

Sure, they were code words my friend and I would use. When someone would say, what does that mean. We would say it's slang, and we had alternate slang meanings for when someone ask.

When I was under 18, I was working at a restaurant. There were a group of guys that worked there. Whoever was working the register would yell, "Coke, no ice" when a extremely attractive girl walked in" hah. Obviously, letting everyone know to come out and take a gander.

 

[Chrispierce]

Yeah I did....got my mouthed washed out with soap for it too.

 

[Runwildboys]

Sure, they were code words my friend and I would use. When someone would say, what does that mean. We would say it's slang, and we had alternate slang meanings for when someone ask.

When I was under 18, I was working at a restaurant. There were a group of guys that worked there. Whoever was working the register would yell, "Coke, no ice" when a extremely attractive girl walked in" hah. Obviously, letting everyone know to come out and take a gander.

My father would just say loudly, "Hhhhogans!"

 

[The Fonz]

We used to have our own made up language which is basically adding suffix and prefix to make the word sound unknown.We understand each other but no one else have a clue.

 

[Reverend Conehead]

There's a Swiss German word "spinchäeb" that basically means scum-bag (or literally a lunatic who smells like a dead horse). I Americanized it to "spincabe." When I call someone a spincabe, only my family knows what I mean.

 

[CouchCoach]

Define "kid". I've never stopped making them up and enjoy making cuss words out of other cuss words, cuss word cross pollinating, and then I like to string them together. I submitted my last string after catching my elbow in the car door to Guinness. I don't know if I am going to get a record because they've asked me to stop submitting but they were polite about and asked for me to PLEASE stop submitting.

 

[Reverend Conehead]

Define "kid". I've never stopped making them up and enjoy making cuss words out of other cuss words, cuss word cross pollinating, and then I like to string them together. I submitted my last string after catching my elbow in the car door to Guinness. I don't know if I am going to get a record because they've asked me to stop submitting but they were polite about and asked for me to PLEASE stop submitting.

Ha ha ha ha, yeah go ahead and post words you made up as a "big kid."

 

[Londonboy]

Still do, if Y'all ask, I pretend it's Cockney slang.

 

[Xelda]

I sound like Samuel L. Jackson during my road rage moments.

I caught myself using Cartman's voice on the road. "Get out of the way, you ***holes".

From a child on up, a few of my relatives and I can still be caught saying "tump". It can be used to describe turning something over or as a tump truck.

 

[FineFan]

I used to say something like "the Urf is round!" lol

 

[Cowpolk]

I'm a Texan I maik uup werds ever dai only problum is pepul here understand um

 

[BillyBates]

I'm a Texan I maik uup werds ever dai only problum is pepul here understand um

yup ifin yer a rednek tall makes purrfect cents.

 

[Xelda]

I'm a Texan I maik uup werds ever dai only problum is pepul here understand um

Heaven help me! Ah undur stud evry wurd.

 

[Ranched]

I can't remember what I had for breakfast let alone a word I made up when I was a kid.

 

[Xelda]

In high school a friend and I said "nacune" instead of or before laughing. I'm not certain of it's origins, but I often combine words while talking. One day at work while extremely frustrated with an on line legal document I had to fill out, I barked "What does this even mean? Never mind! I'll Groogle it!" Google + research = Groogle. I inherited a strange ability to remember certain things.