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A neologism my mother taught me as I was first learning to talk (and eat) was 'clurt'
If you are eating something that is drippy like yogurt or soup you need to clurt your spoon before you put it in your mouth. Grew up saying this and was always confused when people didn't understand what I was talking about
"Barfer" for a compost waste container.
"Squirtlet" for a small squeeze container of drink concentrate.
Both things that don't have a short standard name, so one was improvised and caught on.
One does not simply give a bear a bounce house.
Ok I lied we don't really say that but I'm trying to make it happen
I am with you. I like this one a lot.
We don't feel "a bit off" or "confused."
We get "discombobulated." Now, I don't think it's necessarily weird for the whole country, but AFAIK, it's something usually heard in the Midwest. We're Californian.
I didn't realize this is a midwestern thing. Grew up with this term in Wisconsin
When I was a kid my mom called something newly cleaned or washed "brand clean".
Bingpot!
My kids say "tomorrow after that day" instead of the day after tomorrow; my oldest came up with it as a toddler and it just stuck.
Love this one!
The idiom "fleshed out" confuses foreigners and children.
Well burn that bridge when we come to it
Did you make that cake or is it boughten?
Are they Pennsylvania Dutch?
No. Ultimately German going back to 1800's, then United Empire Loyalists who settled in Niagara area. A lot of farms, quite a few Mennonites, so there's that kind of influence.
That's pretty close actually! Despite the name, Pennsylvania Dutch would be better translated as Pennsylvania German. "Boughtten a cake" wouldn't surprise me at all, as we grew up saying things like "outten the lights".
I recently learned that one of the older men in my family does, in fact, have and use a poop knife.
should remind him enlarged bowels are very popular within the pegging community.