‘What’s an everyday item that you call by a stupid name?’ – 21 things re-christened in ingeniously imaginative ways
12.
‘We have a little dog whose real name begins with ‘D’. But we also refer to her often as ‘the monkey’. When we take her for her walk, we always carry a plastic bag with us to clean up her ‘business’ afterwards. This, in our family, is called a ‘monkey bag’.’
–Historical_Stress_64
13.
‘Our larder is referred to as The shoutin’, because of the song Born Slippy: ‘Shoutin’ lager, lager, lager, lager, shoutin’…’. Lager/larder. Makes perfect sense.’
–No_Application_8698
14.
‘Not an item as such, but after a heavy night’s drinking my ex wife said that she felt devasticated.’
–DuoDriver
15.
‘Ouchy stickers = plasters.’
–M3N1kk1
16.
‘The zuzzer is the hand held blender, while the plastic bucket it comes with is the zuzzpot.’
–Medium_Click1145
17.
‘The proper ovens are called macrowaves. My laptop is called the cogitator. The wifi is called the hypermesh.’
–grumpypedant
18.
‘Fat Coke and thin Coke.’
–Whithorsematt
19.
‘My child renamed my panty liners ‘fanny patches’ so they are now known as fanny patches.’
–Lollypop1305
20.
‘The supermarket scanner, or a ‘zapper’. I call it the Frank, the Frank Zappa.’
–knowbit
21.
‘We call our clothes airer ‘The Patrick’ after Patrick Vieira.’
–RhipWolf