sibling /ˈsɪblɪŋ/

Our dictionary of family language – words you know, but that others don’t.

Blouted – The act of stubbing out a felt tip. As in “David has just blouted the dark blue.”

Bits - Poo.

Bumnoise – Flatulence.

Bouncealine - A trampoline or bouncy castle.

Collopsicated - Exhausted or flaked out. 

Flickerty – TV remote. Also see twagger, dobber, dibdib and The Zap.

Jim Bowen has arrived! (also “Ooh, Jim Bowen!”) – Everything is lovely and settled, and everyone can relax.

Mimsy in the Borrogroves - Upset.

Monotony of Capricorn - Bored.

Pedestranian - Susie Dent's word for pedestrian.

Ponky - When the knees on your skinny jeans stay baggy after bending your legs. “Your jeans have ponked.” Or when your hair refuses to play ball and go neatly into a ponytail, it can be said to “be a bit ponky”. 

Quoof

How often have I carried our family word
For the hot water bottle
To a strange bed,
As my father would juggle a red-hot half-brick
In an old sock
To his childhood settle.
I have taken it into so many lovely heads
Or laid it between us like a sword.

An hotel room in New York City
With a girl who spoke hardly any English,
My hand on her breast
Like the smouldering one-off spoor of the yeti
Or some other shy beast
That has yet to enter the language.

PAUL MULDOON (1981)

Schnürf – Cuddly, cosy, loving - you can feel schnürfy or need a schnürf.

Splatchers - The love child of a snowshoe and a child’s stilts concept, these planks of wood enable an individual to walk safely over Norfolk mud flats using an attached string to pull up the wearer’s feet each step.

Symonds Yat - The little 'lid' you cut off the top of a boiled egg.

"To the Doormobile!" – Everyone out of the house!

“To the manor born!” - Let’s play a game!

Wimbledon (n.) – That last drop which, no matter how much you shake it, always goes down your trouser leg. 

“Womb to the tomb” – Expression of twin-hood relationship.

York up – To ‘hoik’. As in “York up your rucksack."