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Does your family (or maybe your close group of friends) use any words or phrases that are unique to them?

For example, my grandfather was from Sicily.  He pronounced "pasta" with a strong "p" sound . . . almost a "b" sound.  So, it sounded like "basta" when he said it.  He died about 30 years ago, but my family still says "basta" when we are talking about spaghetti.  When I was about 6 years old, my friend's mother asked me what I was having for dinner.  I kept saying "basta" and she kept saying "what?"  Finally, she had to call my mother and ask what the hell I was saying.

Somewhere along the way, the phrase "kiss my roseola" replaced "kiss my ass" in my family's lingo.  I don't know the origin of this odd phrase.

I'm sure we have more like this, but I need to think of them.

There is a few. Some are not acceptable for putting on the board however. Here are some which should be safe since they contain no offensvie words.
Molestery - a way to describe someone or something that looks or seem like something used by a person who molest someone sexually. Often used by friends of mine.
PUMAT - Product of an Unspeakable Menage A Trois. We use this often when we see a pic or film of someone who looks like a mixture of three other people. Often used by friends of mine.
UMAT - Unspeakable Menage A Trois. We use this one when we see three other people looking like they are about to make out together or just standing really close. Often used by friends of mine.
Butt ass - My family uses this do describe extremes regarding nudity or cold mostly. We have tossed it in for other things to point out we think it's extreme.
Dingus - It's a old word that I have heard my entire life used by my family to describe someone being a bonehead.
Drawers - First this is not always something you store silverware or papers in. My family uses this to also refer to underwear/underpants. Guess you could store stuff like that in them as well but would you want to really used them afterwards?

Me an my 'ol man have some weird ones:

Dingbat - an incredibly stupid person
Zapped out - drank yourself to sleep
Buzzing - when something is very good
Hard as witches tits - getting really cold
Billy bollocko - being totally naked
Goon - funny person
Mintball - when something is new
Bok - don't know what to say
Bird - grandmother

My Dad likes to use "Frazzlin'" as an adjective when he is irritated . . .
and I use the word "nostrils" as an all-purpose exclamation of surprise, dismay, or enthusiasm.

I call my Seventh Graders "yuppy larva".

And when I am really angry, I will rattle off the following phrase in Latin:

"Sugit facientor vomitas!"

(Roughly translated, "That sucks and it makes me want to throw up!")

Not too unique, but if anyone in my family can't think of something (except for me) they'll say thingamajig.

Boompeyay (Boom-Pee-Yay) = A butt, "boomp" for short. 

BingBong = Belly button

Toothpickpoop = Me.  Yes, most fathers lovingly call their daughters pumpkin, darling, sweetie, and I got deemed "Toothpickpoop" by my dad.


My brother always called his girlfriends Dingbat, and it had the same meaning.

Once my dad was trying to say glance and glimpse at the same time and it came out as glampse. Since then whenever we get a brief look at something, we refer to it as a glampse.

My father was always good at putting a string of swears together and getting them out in less than a second.

"God@mnmuthaf*ckinsonofab*tch"

He'd also have his own dialect when he was PO'd.  Almost like an incoherent growl mixed with some English word that we could never figure out.  It usually shut up whoever he was yelling at.  I couldn't even try to type an example here if I tried.  

When I was a toddler my mother call my bowel movements "ca-ca balls".  I'm starting to realized now why I'm a tad bit odd.  

Instead of using swear words in front of impressionable young minds I came up with "HWEEG!" and "YARGOSNEEB!" when utterly frustrated.  What do they mean?  Even though I made 'em up, I have no idea.  :question:

My youngest daughter and I use to do one thing that got to my wife. We use to speak Klingon to each other at times. Would drive my wife nuts when we did it too.

"No One Gets Yog-Sothoth" -- I ran a six month long Call of Cthulhu RPG campaign in college.  One of my players started dreaming about the game between sessions.  This phrase popped up in his dreams. 

"Horsepants" -- an expression of both cynical disbelief and occasionally used just when silence becomes too much.  Coined by my friend Dan.

My most recent ex-gf and I would fill any awkward silence with one of us saying, "So, ah...Manos, the...Hands of Fate..."

I just heard one to add to this list.  My dad will say something like "It's not Rocket Surgery", when referring to something that isn't difficult.

I hear "Its Not Rocekt Science".  Currently I'm using it as a central theme of an upcoming essay on the blog.

:bouncegiggle: Saucer that is beautiful!  (She sounds like 'a keeper': None of my business but what did she do for you to let her get away: eat crackers in bed? )

Ours:

"Seaweed!" - used in place of "42" as the answer.
"Because I am KING!" - added as (unsolicited) explanation as to why one knows a certain fact/thing one has stated.

(Both of which are from the same scene in the same bad movie.  :wink:  )

"Don't squat with yer spurs on" - equivalent to 'be careful' - or offered up when someone does something clumsy, regrettable and avoidable.

"glarbargle!"  as a random exclamation out-of-the blue injected into pauses or silences (usually in game play)

"Because she is a blind, disabled, undead monkey" said with an over-done phony French accent, whenever someone says something very odd.  Sometimes add "bipolar" before 'undead', for emphasis.

(I know there are more, but I am going blank...I'll have to ask the kids.)

pigstee instead of pigsty.. I was letting my husband read a book I was reading it said something like they would make love in a pigsty and he read it as make love in a pigstee and it just stuck.

When anyone falls down we all ask.. are you drunk?

When anyone has a problem inevitably someone will say.. you want me to send the wolf?

She actually dumped me due to a number of factors, including that it had become a long-distance relationship, our differing schedules made communication difficult, she was joining a sorority that I was scared of because I'd seen it effect complete personality changes, almost akin to brainwashing, on its initiates (and yes, it happened to her as well), and she had friends who were telling her I was no good. 

But, on the other hand, she and I didn't have too much in common, her father didn't like me, disliked a lot of her friends, her dogs hated me, and she was kind of a rebound girlfriend after things deteriorated with a truly amazing girl a couple months earlier. 

I wouldn't have dumped her though...for one thing, she's a much better shot with a rifle than I am.

"It makes people ask questions. Works, doesn't it." - A phrase we use in my family as a response when someone starts asking what something does when it is obvious of the object's function.

"I'm just going to talk to Mugabe."

That is our family's phrase for saying that the person is en route to having a humungous poo, using the name of the "much loved" Zimbabwean State President as a target.  :teddyr:

 :buggedout: :buggedout: :teddyr:

My dad had a few colourful expressions that used to crack my friends up, but none of them can be repeated here.

My dad does have something of an unusual accent. Sort of a regional thing from where he grew up, I suppose. Predominantly rural area (even more so in the 30s and 40s) a couple of hours north of where I grew up. In some ways, it is the classic hoser accent. "About the house" sounds a little like "aboat the hoas." But there's more to it. For example, the days of the week are "Mundy, Choosdy, Wensdy, Tursdy, Fridy, Sairdy and Sundy." You park your car in a "gradge." And when your clothes are dirty, it's time to "warsh" them.

Myself, I've started coming up with my own verbal peculiarities. I'm not sure why, but my cursing has gotten much more creative. I think in some ways, the usual overused swear words just don't get the point across like an angry mixture of euphemisms and baby talk. Or maybe it's just a combination of trying not to swear and really needing to. The most common one is "Friggin' poo!" And then there's "Son of a monkey!" or "Son of a hoo-ha!" Don't ask me how I came up with these, but they seem to have found their way into my everyday cursing.

Flabb-o

it's flabb-o time

it means nothing

 me, my brothers, and our parents, any type of remote control is known as a "clicker thing". stemming from a remote control we had for the tv years ago which made a loud clicking sound when you pressed any button.

also when my younger brother was about 5 he asked , "if you fall in electric water, do your reflections disappear?". he can't possibly have known what he was eally saying, not that the question even makes sense, but he still gets teased about it 20+ years on...

My family started using this one some time in the late 80s. Whenever somebody asked for something they could just as easily get for themselves, the response was "You got a piano tied to your ass?" It still gets used occasionally when we're together.

I was eating when I read that ~ still choking, still coughing but still laughing.  :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:

'ello love, do you love Spam
oh, love

"Okay, terrific!- kind of a random sarcastic phrase thrown out whenever someone says something completely bizarre/offensive that kinda halts a conversation, said to kill the silence. 

Mamaluke- essentially, it means 'moron.'

There's plenty others but most can't be repeated here.

WEINER TROLL-When I was a little kid,my older brother Mike would jump up at random and say-Lets do the Weiner Troll Dance!!!" And we would commence to holding hands and running in a circle yelling-"Weiner troll! Weiner troll!" Yes-it's the irrelavent madness of kids.
BONE HAWK-Self explanatory.As in-"Whatta bone hawk."
ASTROID-as in a fart.
YIPPY SKIPPY-As in-"Time to go to AA!"  "Oh-yippy skippy."
HIBBITY JIBBITY-Family slang for intercourse.

My family used this one too . . . but mostly when a lot of my old Italian relatives were still alive . . .

A phrase I use at work with some friends: You want a free blanket? or just muttering the words free blankets.
Basically a reference to the smallpox blankets and clothing given to the Natives back when settlers showed up here in America.  Mentioned during a conversation with my Mexican friend who is p**sed off at Columbus.  I mentioned the blankets to him and he started laughing when I told him we gave them free blankets.  So every day when I walk into work, he just looks at me and goes "You bring me any free blankets today, Italiano?"

So, you're the other person who knows that word.  I mentioned to about 100 people and NOBODY had any idea what I'm talking about.   :teddyr:

How words get adopted and passed around is fascinating: there has to be an interesting story behind why "mameluke" went from referring to a Turkish slave-soldier Muslim convert, to "moron".  Or is it just a coincidence?

I've heard it in movies and on TV shows too.  For example, I'm sure they used it several times in THE SOPRANOS.  People who aren't familiar with it probably don't notice it or simply ignore it when they hear it.

Spudulite = child.

I've wanted to reply to this topic so badly, but my family is pretty well vanilla in the ways of special sayings...

Except for Eggnogaroni (portmanteau of Egg Nog and macaroni). 

Eggnogaroni- Accidentally created bad food. 

The origin of this comes from a ham dinner my mother made one night for a large group.  She decided to make some Kraft mac n' cheese as a side dish.  For some reason, it came out a funny color, had a gritty texture, and tasted somewhat sweet, but mostly bland.  Someone thought she put something in it other than milk.  She argued fervently that she used milk.  She knows she did because she grabbed the the first carton in the door.  I looked in the fridge and saw the first carton in the door was Darigold Eggnog.  She has not heard the end of it to this day.

One between me and sister; When ever someone says their going to do something, for example "I'm going to go watch a movie," you reply "People die, every day, watching movies..."

-Jimmybob