word substitution

minks · Post by **minks** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 1:03 pm

Ok guys all of us have words we sub into the english language that is a substitute for something.

Let me start,

some yuck substance I don't know what it is , where it came from and don't want to know more about

Schmengie

Clint · Post by **Clint** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 1:11 pm

When you don't know what it is you call it a "chingaletta"... and hope it isn't a real word in some language.

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 1:16 pm

Calling something a 'Gizmo' when you don't know or can't remember the technical term.

pina · Post by **pina** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 1:23 pm

Cowie or Dubrie are my sayings but if its a person that I can't remember the name of .....Female - queer one. Male is gadgey.

BabyRider · Post by **BabyRider** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 1:25 pm

When you're at a point where you get weepy about something....you're "ferklempt." Where did it come from? Haven't a clue.

Clint · Post by **Clint** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 1:33 pm

My Dad used to call things he couldn't put a handle on an "alforcusus".

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 1:38 pm

Clint wrote: When you don't know what it is you call it a "chingaletta"... and hope it isn't a real word in some language.
*laughing*

I will not tell you what one possibility would be in Spanish...............

Gosh, I am still laughing............................

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 1:47 pm

legally we are not allowed to know if a prisoner has AIDS (nice, huh?) so we get told by the word 'ninja'.

pina · Post by **pina** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 1:47 pm

chonsigirl wrote: *laughing*

I will not tell you what one possibility would be in Spanish...............

Gosh, I am still laughing............................

Chonsi....I was being very quiet and polite and not saying

hahahahahahaha :wah: :yh_rotfl hehehehehehe

theia · Post by **theia** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 1:55 pm

diddly squat - nothing (I think it's "diddly". It looks all wrong now, in print)

:-3

pina · Post by **pina** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 1:57 pm

theia wrote: diddly squat - nothing (I think it's "diddly". It looks all wrong now, in print)

:-3

It was nixy noodles when I was a kid.

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 1:58 pm

If i dont know the name of something, its a thingimajig or a thingimabob!

theia · Post by **theia** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 1:58 pm

pina wrote: It was nixy noodles when I was a kid.

And "sweet fanny adams"

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 2:23 pm

abbey wrote: If i dont know the name of something, its a thingimajig or a thingimabob!Or a wotchamacallit

SOJOURNER · Post by **SOJOURNER** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 2:33 pm

Befudercated = stressed and bewillered

pina · Post by **pina** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 3:13 pm

theia wrote: And "sweet fanny adams"

I just googled Fanny Adams, its a terrible story and belongs in the crime section. Even though I've heard the saying all my life I never knew what it meant.

Valerie100 · Post by **Valerie100** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 6:38 pm

Holy cannoli! A blessed Italian pastry that replaces the cow.

BabyRider · Post by **BabyRider** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 6:42 pm

When you get someone all twisted up & blushing by flirting with them, they are "flitterpated."

Clint · Post by **Clint** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 7:11 pm

"Nucleatory"...where someone goes when they lose control.

Dizz · Post by **Dizz** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 11:37 pm

For unknown plants, it's a Hookipieensis in my family. (hooky - pie - ens - is)

For other things, I use a whatchamacallit, gizmo, doodad, thinamajig, thing a ma bobber.

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 11:46 pm

has anyone mentioned thingies? or doodads?

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 12:05 am

pina wrote: I just googled Fanny Adams, its a terrible story and belongs in the crime section. Even though I've heard the saying all my life I never knew what it meant.I always thought the phrase sweet fanny adams came about because it was a nicer way of saying sweet f*** all?

Valerie100 · Post by **Valerie100** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 9:58 am

A fungus among us (pronounced amongus) -- self-explanatory.

Dakotawoman · Post by **Dakotawoman** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 5:54 pm

discumbobulated hoodecker

SOJOURNER · Post by **SOJOURNER** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 9:11 am

going thru a yellow light is a "scutterbuch"