fake words and nicknames

Do you and your family (or friends) have fake words that you use regularly? Do you sometimes forget that they're not real words? We certainly do. My family growing up made up words all the time, and we have since passed them on to our children. If we were living on a desert island, we would probably have an entirely new language within two generations. Or not.
Some of you have heard some of these before; in fact it's possible I've don a post about this as well, but it was so long ago it doesn't matter anymore, right?
Some words we use:

scrumble: scumble is a word: it refers to an art technique in chalk. Scrumble is not the same word; it has an "r" in it. It can mean a variety of things. You can scrumble up a paper into a ball. Your blankets might be all scrumbled up and it's hard to straighten them. You might not feel very good today, you feel scrumbly. Your hair is a scrumbly mess because you didn't brush it. If you pass your fingers rapidly over someone elses face, arm, extremity in a rapid and unfriendly way, you're scrumbling all over them. Sometimes a poopy baby can be called "scrumbly pants" or maybe "scrumbly bum".

I love the word scrumble. My kids don't know it's a fake word, and I've witnessed them confusing adults who don't know what they're talking about: "Scrambled? Does she mean it's all scrambled, like an egg? Or did she scribble on it? What is she talking about?" Bwahaha.

spoosh- I'm not sure my kids know this word yet, but my siblings would certainly know to what I was referring. If you spoosh somebody, you poke them in the tummy like they're the Pilsbury Dough Boy.  It was always funny to spoosh my brother, Jimmy. He lives in Japan now, so no more spooshing for him. (note: my brother's name isn't really Jimmy. But it's been his nickname in our home since he was a teen, and we sometimes forget it's not his real name. In fact, it is his name on Facebook.)
 

 boop: this word actually came from Joseph's family, so it would sound odd to my siblings. This is our family's  euphemism for passing gas (I'm sure many families have their own unique phrases for this.) Unfortunately, it sounds very close to "poop" which can be very confusing for caretakers or teachers. "You did what in your pants?!" Our kids were thrilled when we visited their cousins in Washington a year ago, and they said this at their house too. Only recently has Elora realized other people at school use a different word, and she's been quite perturbed about it.
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scroucher-  a scroucher scrouches all the milk. Until it's like, gone. They scrouch all the candy and don't share any of it with the rest of us. I haven't actually used this word in quite a while, but hearing it is like coming home. Coming home to an empty fridge because someone scrouched all the good food. It can refer to hogging other things too, but generally it is in reference to food. Especially milk. Thorin always scrouched all the milk, in giant cups.

She's a total milk scroucher

  

schnaupper: This one is pretty obvious. A schnaupper is so schnapped they're totally falling down drunk. Man, those guys on Fiddler on the Roof get totally schnaupped when they're toasting Lazar Wolf's marriage to Tzeitel. Totally.

speaking of made-up words...a few years ago I did a post about how we have some nicknames for our kids. Elora is Saucy,  and Josh was PoePea McGee (though we don't really use it anymore). Since then, we've added some new nicknames to our family, that I think you need to know about.

When Jonah was a baby, we called him Licky Micky or Kicky Micky, depending on if his tongue was hanging out of his mouth, or if he was kicking his feet while his diaper was changed.
Now Licky Micky has his own sidekick, Twisty Pete. Yes, this is Eli's new name, bestowed upon him because he twists and wiggles a lot while being held or having his diaper changed. He can also be known as Eli Beli, or just Beli (pronounced bee-lie). Sometimes Beli transforms into Beli Brown, and this must be followed by a verse of the song Leroy Brown: "He was bad, bad Beli Brown, baddest boy in the whole dang town, badder than old King Kong, meaner than a junkyard dog!" which of course isn't true. But he does enjoy the song.

Beli Brown is so bad he takes my teething ring away from me!

 Twisty Pete is something of a milk scroucher, you know.