Dictionary of your family's made-up words

karates = creeps (as in feelings of dread)
"I don't want to watch Little Mermaid, that squid lady gives me the karates."

This word was coined because the word "creeps" gave my daughter the karates.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Saturday, July 16, 2005 7:35 AM (thirteen years ago)

For unexplained reasons, when we were wee children my father used to refer to piss as "dickel", and pissing as "going dickel".

when you were what type of children?

dickel children

you found the joke

If you have loads of words noone outside your fam understands it means you're close. My family had a shitload of made-up words. My fave was pazetaters (refers to potatoes, in dutch patatten).

Oh another chikakletten (chewing gum).

strikes me that we have lots of these but i don't remember most of them. i see my family once a year for a week or two so that perhaps explains it.

"having the darkness" is our little family euphemism for depression.

my dad would make Spanish/English compound words like "plonkerón" instead of "plonker".

childhood mispronunciation words that still will be referenced occasionally include "bayoon" for "balloon"

"full of wee glads" - not unique to my family a google search for the exact phrase pulls up 2 results from forums - when someone is in a peppy mood

When you stir up various foods, especially dessert, to make a big mixture in a bowl that is a GLOPTIOUS PLOPFUL.

When combining several leftovers into an improvised supper, my dad would call it "obben-globben". My wife thinks this was a slight corruption of "abend globben", based on the german word for evening (abend).

My daughter coined “swoll” (n., v.) for baby vomit.