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Children’s creativity knows no bounds. And it’s not just them having much fewer limitations on a social and psychological level, but also the fact that they think differently altogether.
And this different thought has spawned a Twitter thread where people share instances of kids calling various things names that either sound similar, but are actually different, or calling them a completely different thing that makes much more sense not just to them, but to us adults as well.
It’s things like deodorant being called armpit makeup or a freezer being called an ice cupboard.
So, take a look at our neatly curated list of some of the best tweets of kids calling things other things that are actually hilariously entertaining below! And why not leave an upvote and a comment on the submissions you enjoyed the most.
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WoodenLion 3 years ago (edited)
as a white man i laughed very much at this - i gotta' remember this.
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WilvanderHeijden 3 years ago (edited)
At school: "Mommy lost one of her strap-ons when she was chasing daddy last night..."
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Carmen Sandiego 3 years ago (edited)
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Kelly Hartle 3 years ago
A friend of my parents and I once got into an argument whether they were "mitts or gubs."
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Brandi VanSteenwyk 3 years ago
LOOOOOVE IT!!! Reminds me of a human "talk to text" program. I can just picture the little one (having heard mom refer to a "clementine") attempting to decipher and learn the word that quickly escaped mom's lips without hesitation in order to know what to request next time.
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Brandi VanSteenwyk 3 years ago (edited)
Sometimes it ISN'T invisible and ISN'T a fart... And all of your plans must be aborted very quickly.
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BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 3 years ago
My sister used to say yesterday for anything that happened in the past. If she was talking about something that happened a year ago, she would say yesterday day I did this.
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Got Myself 4 Dwarves 3 years ago
My son couldn't say popcorn when he was 3/4, so he'd be standing in the cinema loudly requesting some cockporn and sweeties
Marsha Fredell 3 years ago
I was telling my 3 year old nephew to not touch spiders. There was a black widow on the door and I explained they can make you very sick. When he went home, he told his mom..."Mom never touch a Black Weirdo or you might die"
ella 3 years ago
My brother calls the stuff you put in soft toys fluffing instead of stuffing. It makes perfect sense
Raven DeathShade 3 years ago
Your brother? Heck, my whole family calls it that!
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Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
When my sister and I were kids, Dad would always have Program Files open on his computer. Sister, not knowing what it was called but seeing a long list of file names, dubbed it "The Big Listy Thing". Dad immediately changed the shortcut's name, and from then on it was The Big Listy Thing to everybody.
AnimalsRuleHumansDrool 3 years ago
When I was a kid, my cousins dared me to always call a doors and gates a 'hinged barrrier' and I still do it.
HoneyBun Arts 3 years ago
When i was younger there were no “ Guinea pigs“ no no, they were Pigga Pigs. And that is what i have called them henceforth.
Mish Harenberg 3 years ago
my younger brother when he was a toddler had a few that i can remember; street cleaner = tooth brush truck. soft drink/soda = bubble juice (i still use this haha) and pads = mum nappies
bonnyatlast 3 years ago
My daughter called her belly button her belly butt and the song Amazing Grace was Amazing Grapes.....
Julie 3 years ago
My son and I , still call it belly butts, we both know the correct term...does not matter....it is belly butts for life.
Load More Replies... Bobert Robertson 3 years ago
My daughter called bagels donut toast and I think she should be in marketing now
BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 3 years ago
My sister used to call strawberries wabbiebies and it was actually the cutest thing ever. She would come up to us and say, "Can I have a wabbiebie?" She also called biscuits "bikkits". I called princesses pancessss and elephants were ephenants.
Uncommon Boston 3 years ago (edited)
I told my son, age 3, I "was at the end of my rope." He glared at me, "What rope? You don't have any rope. How can you be at the end of your rope without a rope?? My ex came home as my son stormed upstairs. Asked what is wrong, " Mommy doesn't have any rope. No rope!" muttering, "To be at the end of your rope, you need a rope." I wanted him upstairs in his room. Desired end result accomplished.
Deborah Alcock 3 years ago
I used to tell my kids we were going to see a man about a horse everytime they asked where we were going. Finally one day they asked if we were ever going to see the horse we were going to see.
Load More Replies... Suzanne Griscom 3 years ago
I was sad the day my son stopped calling them waterlemons. Same letters only different.
Raven DeathShade 3 years ago
Reminds me of an anecdote where my sister (3) asked if she could have "a sinning Minnie Mouse." She meant "singing", but boy was my mind assaulted with an unpleasant image.
Cat Bessing 3 years ago
My granddaughter told us that fog is just "lazy clouds, just laying around instead of being in the sky"
Paula McCullah 3 years ago
My son called it "yourcraft" when taking about someone else playing minecraft. We also call hamburgers "hangeyburgers"
OHIOWAndering_Around 3 years ago
when my nephew was 4/5 he called his testicles a wiener basket. he didn't have the correct terminology yet, but no one would correct him because it was too cute. according to him, baskets have handles and well...you can see where that one is going.
Julie 3 years ago
I am not sure others believe as I do, but I rarely correct my son when he makes a vernacular mistake...unless it offensive. I find it cute as hell and the world and time itself will correct his youthful mistakes. Currently, our neighbor has a new dog named "Scout", but my boy keeps calling it ""Snout" and I revel in delight of his mistake.
Amanda MacDonald 3 years ago
My son used to say "Obama" instead of "the bottom of." So he would say stuff like "I drank all my juice and now I can see Obama cup!" or "I can see Obama the pool!" He also used to say waterlemon and dinoroar.
Marianne Luginbuhl 3 years ago
One of my twin boys insisted clothes got clean after going thru in the Wetter and the Dryer
Uncommon Boston 3 years ago
Decorated bagel -- donut with sprinkles ............. chicken from sheep --- lamb ................ "May I please have some water, cold and fresh?"
Marsha Fredell 3 years ago
My son, 3, use to call computers "peters". Imagine the rage I felt when he said his stepfather has one and he let's him ook at it and play with it. It wasn't until he pulled me into his room where he had a Staples flyer laid out on the floor that I realized what he was saying. I was ready to call CPS, a divorce attorney and the police.
Lady Snowfall 3 years ago
My kids could not get the hang of "hand sanitizer". To this day they all call it "Hansatizer"
Jennie-Lind Normand 3 years ago
I heard a kid call donut holes 'sugar meatballs', and I refuse to call them anything else
Goth mouse (they/them) 3 years ago
I always called loved moths when i was tiny and called them a ‘little nuff’ 😂
Seán Hannan 2 months ago
My brother-in-law used to always respond to his kids saying, "I want..." with "Your wishes are irrelevant." Then, one day, my sister heard her son tell her daughter, "Your wishes are your elephant!" and that has been part of our family phrase book ever since.
Melanie Linehan 2 years ago
When my daughter was around 2 years old, she couldn't pronouse applesauce, so she would ask for some apple ass.
Helen Douglas 2 years ago
Parcark for carpark, hebiclopter for helicopter, peecuter for computer, and our favourite, Farmer Christmas
Lucy Stone 2 years ago (edited)
My daughter couldn't say vacuum it always sounded like f**k you. She always looked at me funny when I started laughing.
L.M. Frazer 3 years ago
My son called Santa Claus "Santa Papa".....my only living grandpa had pure white hair and beard. I'm not unconvinced that between 2 and 5 he thought Santa Papa was just a very busy grandpa of his haha
Lara Harris 3 years ago
When my sister was about two and unable to say the word vaccum cleaner she called it a fu**ing cleaner. None of us corrected her. My mum thought it was one of the funniest things she'd ever heard.
Heather Wolmarans 3 years ago
My son called fish's fins 'thins'. Indeed, they are thins to this day! He also couldn't pronounce his favourite dessert....melon remang (lemon merangue)
Kelly DeSilva 3 years ago
My daughter used to call all meat chicken. She would ask me what kind of chicken on her plate. I would tell her what it was for instance ham. She would say back I really like this kind of chicken. McDonalds was always called 'happy Donalds' because of the happy meal.
Caroline Overill 3 years ago
When I was a tot it was mouse tash for moustache, hotails for hotels and the municipal buildings were the munciples.
Kalah Kahl 3 years ago
When my daughter was little she would call her big toe her "thumb" toe. We still call it that today and she is 23 now! LOL
Sharee Earle 3 years ago
My 7 yr old says screams instead of screens. I say - no screen time. He says - When can we have screams? Scream time back Lol
Aurora Levinson 3 years ago
My 3yo daughter calls pick-up trucks hiccup trucks, and they will never be anything else again.
Sinéad Quinn 3 years ago
When my son was little he couldn't say remember he said damember which Is kinda a short form of do you remember I guess :)
Hello Dolly 3 years ago
My son calls hot sauce spicy and Tony’s season spicy. So every morning with his eggs he had to have spicy and the other spicy in his eggs.
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Unnamed Hooman 3 years ago
My little sister used to call wasps, ‘Wapses’ OH NO LOOK IT’S A WAPSE 🐝
Susan Bosse 3 years ago
When my son was around 5, called the back of your knee the "knee pit." He's 19 and we still call it that.
Andrea Hall 3 years ago
When my daughter was about 4 she told the teacher I give her packed loo cheese everyday took me a while before I realized she meant packed lunches lol
Emma Goudie 3 years ago
My daughter called bras 'chest pockets' and underpants and underwear became all inclusive 'underments'. She wasn't wrong and we still use those words 20 years later.
Dina AlBadawi 3 years ago
I used to take my twin boys every summer to Europe. Somewhere at age 4, they began calling the open mountain lift (ski lift) - FLYING BENCHES! Now they are 24 and it's still FLYING BENCHES in their memories about the Old country.
Axolotl King 3 years ago
My brother calls Narwhals "Unicorn whales". That's better than what my sister and I called them when we were little, "Horny Whales"
Vermillion Ace #443 3 years ago
Borrowed this from my friend and I love it: Breafix = Breakfast. Adorably delicious!
LH25 3 years ago
When my niece was around 4, she had two time-frames for the future. "in two weeks" for things coming up soon-ish, and "after later" for those coming up further down the road.
Clay Matthews 3 years ago
Both of my kids would say, "We're going to My-ami" instead of Miami. It was so stinking cute
Bob Stuart 3 years ago
A teacher had a collection of these, and eventually a child supplied a title for the file - the "Pullet Surprises."
~Canapé Kitten~ 3 years ago (edited)
Me taking extra breaths to try not to laugh too much late at night:
Daniel Marsh 3 years ago (edited)
When he was 3, he called his dinosaur plushy a "dangersaurus." (Now, admittedly through my influence, he's "Rodney" as in "Rodney Dangersaurus." Although, it's closer to "Roddaknee")
Terilee Bruyere 3 years ago
My son used to call his miralax 'poop juice' and weedeaters 'weedy ators'. He used the correct term for them now but poop juice is still used at home occasionally. We were adopted by a dumped kitty during an ice storm. He has vision problems and has an extra large dog crate that he is in when we are gone. My daughter calls it a 'kitty jail' XD At least the cat doesn't act like it's a jail, he sits in there often even when the door is open.
Susan Svitak 3 years ago
My daughter calls Potato chips tomato chips and she calls sunscreen sunscream. We have pet chickens and she used to call them go-go's. i have no idea why but i was kinda sad when she actually started calling them chickens
Julie 3 years ago
My boy would call the bodily function we all have as a "butt burp"...aka passing gas, bronx cheer, cracking rats, air muffins, cutting mustard or farting. I like my kids wordage the best.
Jane Martin 3 years ago
Why do people add something THEY think is cute and then say 'You're welcome". It might be very cute but stop it with the YOU'RE WELCOME. It's kind of annoying
Mere Cat 3 years ago
People do that? I'd maybe say you're welcome in a sinister way after painting a disturbing mental image or something... Then again, English is not my first language so I don't know.
Load More Replies... Got Myself 4 Dwarves 3 years ago
My son couldn't say popcorn when he was 3/4, so he'd be standing in the cinema loudly requesting some cockporn and sweeties
Marsha Fredell 3 years ago
I was telling my 3 year old nephew to not touch spiders. There was a black widow on the door and I explained they can make you very sick. When he went home, he told his mom..."Mom never touch a Black Weirdo or you might die"
ella 3 years ago
My brother calls the stuff you put in soft toys fluffing instead of stuffing. It makes perfect sense
Raven DeathShade 3 years ago
Your brother? Heck, my whole family calls it that!
Load More Replies... Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
When my sister and I were kids, Dad would always have Program Files open on his computer. Sister, not knowing what it was called but seeing a long list of file names, dubbed it "The Big Listy Thing". Dad immediately changed the shortcut's name, and from then on it was The Big Listy Thing to everybody.
AnimalsRuleHumansDrool 3 years ago
When I was a kid, my cousins dared me to always call a doors and gates a 'hinged barrrier' and I still do it.
HoneyBun Arts 3 years ago
When i was younger there were no “ Guinea pigs“ no no, they were Pigga Pigs. And that is what i have called them henceforth.
Mish Harenberg 3 years ago
my younger brother when he was a toddler had a few that i can remember; street cleaner = tooth brush truck. soft drink/soda = bubble juice (i still use this haha) and pads = mum nappies
bonnyatlast 3 years ago
My daughter called her belly button her belly butt and the song Amazing Grace was Amazing Grapes.....
Julie 3 years ago
My son and I , still call it belly butts, we both know the correct term...does not matter....it is belly butts for life.
Load More Replies... Bobert Robertson 3 years ago
My daughter called bagels donut toast and I think she should be in marketing now
BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 3 years ago
My sister used to call strawberries wabbiebies and it was actually the cutest thing ever. She would come up to us and say, "Can I have a wabbiebie?" She also called biscuits "bikkits". I called princesses pancessss and elephants were ephenants.
Uncommon Boston 3 years ago (edited)
I told my son, age 3, I "was at the end of my rope." He glared at me, "What rope? You don't have any rope. How can you be at the end of your rope without a rope?? My ex came home as my son stormed upstairs. Asked what is wrong, " Mommy doesn't have any rope. No rope!" muttering, "To be at the end of your rope, you need a rope." I wanted him upstairs in his room. Desired end result accomplished.
Deborah Alcock 3 years ago
I used to tell my kids we were going to see a man about a horse everytime they asked where we were going. Finally one day they asked if we were ever going to see the horse we were going to see.
Load More Replies... Suzanne Griscom 3 years ago
I was sad the day my son stopped calling them waterlemons. Same letters only different.
Raven DeathShade 3 years ago
Reminds me of an anecdote where my sister (3) asked if she could have "a sinning Minnie Mouse." She meant "singing", but boy was my mind assaulted with an unpleasant image.
Cat Bessing 3 years ago
My granddaughter told us that fog is just "lazy clouds, just laying around instead of being in the sky"
Paula McCullah 3 years ago
My son called it "yourcraft" when taking about someone else playing minecraft. We also call hamburgers "hangeyburgers"
OHIOWAndering_Around 3 years ago
when my nephew was 4/5 he called his testicles a wiener basket. he didn't have the correct terminology yet, but no one would correct him because it was too cute. according to him, baskets have handles and well...you can see where that one is going.
Julie 3 years ago
I am not sure others believe as I do, but I rarely correct my son when he makes a vernacular mistake...unless it offensive. I find it cute as hell and the world and time itself will correct his youthful mistakes. Currently, our neighbor has a new dog named "Scout", but my boy keeps calling it ""Snout" and I revel in delight of his mistake.
Amanda MacDonald 3 years ago
My son used to say "Obama" instead of "the bottom of." So he would say stuff like "I drank all my juice and now I can see Obama cup!" or "I can see Obama the pool!" He also used to say waterlemon and dinoroar.
Marianne Luginbuhl 3 years ago
One of my twin boys insisted clothes got clean after going thru in the Wetter and the Dryer
Uncommon Boston 3 years ago
Decorated bagel -- donut with sprinkles ............. chicken from sheep --- lamb ................ "May I please have some water, cold and fresh?"
Marsha Fredell 3 years ago
My son, 3, use to call computers "peters". Imagine the rage I felt when he said his stepfather has one and he let's him ook at it and play with it. It wasn't until he pulled me into his room where he had a Staples flyer laid out on the floor that I realized what he was saying. I was ready to call CPS, a divorce attorney and the police.
Lady Snowfall 3 years ago
My kids could not get the hang of "hand sanitizer". To this day they all call it "Hansatizer"
Jennie-Lind Normand 3 years ago
I heard a kid call donut holes 'sugar meatballs', and I refuse to call them anything else
Goth mouse (they/them) 3 years ago
I always called loved moths when i was tiny and called them a ‘little nuff’ 😂
Seán Hannan 2 months ago
My brother-in-law used to always respond to his kids saying, "I want..." with "Your wishes are irrelevant." Then, one day, my sister heard her son tell her daughter, "Your wishes are your elephant!" and that has been part of our family phrase book ever since.
Melanie Linehan 2 years ago
When my daughter was around 2 years old, she couldn't pronouse applesauce, so she would ask for some apple ass.
Helen Douglas 2 years ago
Parcark for carpark, hebiclopter for helicopter, peecuter for computer, and our favourite, Farmer Christmas
Lucy Stone 2 years ago (edited)
My daughter couldn't say vacuum it always sounded like f**k you. She always looked at me funny when I started laughing.
L.M. Frazer 3 years ago
My son called Santa Claus "Santa Papa".....my only living grandpa had pure white hair and beard. I'm not unconvinced that between 2 and 5 he thought Santa Papa was just a very busy grandpa of his haha
Lara Harris 3 years ago
When my sister was about two and unable to say the word vaccum cleaner she called it a fu**ing cleaner. None of us corrected her. My mum thought it was one of the funniest things she'd ever heard.
Heather Wolmarans 3 years ago
My son called fish's fins 'thins'. Indeed, they are thins to this day! He also couldn't pronounce his favourite dessert....melon remang (lemon merangue)
Kelly DeSilva 3 years ago
My daughter used to call all meat chicken. She would ask me what kind of chicken on her plate. I would tell her what it was for instance ham. She would say back I really like this kind of chicken. McDonalds was always called 'happy Donalds' because of the happy meal.
Caroline Overill 3 years ago
When I was a tot it was mouse tash for moustache, hotails for hotels and the municipal buildings were the munciples.
Kalah Kahl 3 years ago
When my daughter was little she would call her big toe her "thumb" toe. We still call it that today and she is 23 now! LOL
Sharee Earle 3 years ago
My 7 yr old says screams instead of screens. I say - no screen time. He says - When can we have screams? Scream time back Lol
Aurora Levinson 3 years ago
My 3yo daughter calls pick-up trucks hiccup trucks, and they will never be anything else again.
Sinéad Quinn 3 years ago
When my son was little he couldn't say remember he said damember which Is kinda a short form of do you remember I guess :)
Hello Dolly 3 years ago
My son calls hot sauce spicy and Tony’s season spicy. So every morning with his eggs he had to have spicy and the other spicy in his eggs.
Load More Replies... Unnamed Hooman 3 years ago
My little sister used to call wasps, ‘Wapses’ OH NO LOOK IT’S A WAPSE 🐝
Susan Bosse 3 years ago
When my son was around 5, called the back of your knee the "knee pit." He's 19 and we still call it that.
Andrea Hall 3 years ago
When my daughter was about 4 she told the teacher I give her packed loo cheese everyday took me a while before I realized she meant packed lunches lol
Emma Goudie 3 years ago
My daughter called bras 'chest pockets' and underpants and underwear became all inclusive 'underments'. She wasn't wrong and we still use those words 20 years later.
Dina AlBadawi 3 years ago
I used to take my twin boys every summer to Europe. Somewhere at age 4, they began calling the open mountain lift (ski lift) - FLYING BENCHES! Now they are 24 and it's still FLYING BENCHES in their memories about the Old country.
Axolotl King 3 years ago
My brother calls Narwhals "Unicorn whales". That's better than what my sister and I called them when we were little, "Horny Whales"
Vermillion Ace #443 3 years ago
Borrowed this from my friend and I love it: Breafix = Breakfast. Adorably delicious!
LH25 3 years ago
When my niece was around 4, she had two time-frames for the future. "in two weeks" for things coming up soon-ish, and "after later" for those coming up further down the road.
Clay Matthews 3 years ago
Both of my kids would say, "We're going to My-ami" instead of Miami. It was so stinking cute
Bob Stuart 3 years ago
A teacher had a collection of these, and eventually a child supplied a title for the file - the "Pullet Surprises."
~Canapé Kitten~ 3 years ago (edited)
Me taking extra breaths to try not to laugh too much late at night:
Daniel Marsh 3 years ago (edited)
When he was 3, he called his dinosaur plushy a "dangersaurus." (Now, admittedly through my influence, he's "Rodney" as in "Rodney Dangersaurus." Although, it's closer to "Roddaknee")
Terilee Bruyere 3 years ago
My son used to call his miralax 'poop juice' and weedeaters 'weedy ators'. He used the correct term for them now but poop juice is still used at home occasionally. We were adopted by a dumped kitty during an ice storm. He has vision problems and has an extra large dog crate that he is in when we are gone. My daughter calls it a 'kitty jail' XD At least the cat doesn't act like it's a jail, he sits in there often even when the door is open.
Susan Svitak 3 years ago
My daughter calls Potato chips tomato chips and she calls sunscreen sunscream. We have pet chickens and she used to call them go-go's. i have no idea why but i was kinda sad when she actually started calling them chickens
Julie 3 years ago
My boy would call the bodily function we all have as a "butt burp"...aka passing gas, bronx cheer, cracking rats, air muffins, cutting mustard or farting. I like my kids wordage the best.
Jane Martin 3 years ago
Why do people add something THEY think is cute and then say 'You're welcome". It might be very cute but stop it with the YOU'RE WELCOME. It's kind of annoying
Mere Cat 3 years ago
People do that? I'd maybe say you're welcome in a sinister way after painting a disturbing mental image or something... Then again, English is not my first language so I don't know.
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