What do you call this?

Alex_Alumni

I was reading recently about how people living together sometimes develop their own 'language' at home, by using different names for things, or certain phrases no one else can make sense of!

It got me thinking, what do you call one of these: 


[Image shows a TV remote control]

My family and I call it a hoofer doofer

66Mustang

The "telly stick"  

Alex_Alumni

I've not heard of 'telly stick' before @66Mustang but it makes a lot more sense than mine! I've had some very funny looks when I've asked friends to pass the hoofer doofer over  

66Mustang

Ha ha  

Sandy_123

I'm boring and it's the remote lol

Beaver79

Me too.

rustledjimm

For a long time my family called it a "commytrollus" after either me or one of my siblings said that, being unable to properly say "remote control"

Alex_Alumni

The correct name for something is not always boring @Sandy_123  

And that's excellent @rustledjimm, it's harder to say commytrollus for me! This might be slightly unrelated, but after my sister called gloves "glubs" that has stuck too!

As a cat person, I must ask- how are your cats today @EffinMuppet, clearly not TV fans? 

poppy123456

For me it's a remote control. I was with my grandson one day quite a few months ago and he asked where the "telly box" was. I said, what's a telly box, he said it's a remote. He's only 3 but so funny sometimes.

Alex_Alumni

Children can be very funny and very insightful indeed Poppy!

I'm alright thank you @EffinMuppet, not surprised about the cats, I bet they are enjoying the sunshine today  

vikingqueen

   According to my Irish son in law it's a yoke...🥴

Alex_Alumni

Wow, that's a new one to me @vikingqueen, 'yoke' like egg yolk, or yoc-key, I wonder?

rustledjimm

From my experiences with my close Irish family 'yoke' essentially translates to 'thingy/thing'.

Pronounced yoke like in the egg.

vikingqueen

  Spot on @rustledjimm everything is a yoke and the daft thing is we all know what it is when he says pass that there yolk 🤨

emancherry33

Used to be called the hand grenade, as we used to chuck it at one another.

JessieJ

For my family it was the doojamaflip. Now it's only me, it's the remote, but I always know where it is.

Steve_in_The_City

I call it The Thing.

OverlyAnxious

Just a remote for me too.  I'm not a fun person! 

A relative refers to it as 'the buttons', which is a bit too vague for me.  Chocolate?  Shirt?  TV? 

Hannah_Alumni

It's a remote to me, but pass me the thingy has also been said 

rustledjimm

My family would also use a variation of 'the thing', we sometimes said "Thingymabob"

and15

I call it a remote but my partner calls it the dibber (I think secretly she's a frustrated bingo player ha ha)