THE FAMILY DICTIONARY (In the fort/In the Car)

One breakfast, Matt was eating toast WITHOUT A PLATE! Rich watched the crumbs pile up around him and eventually said the word "crumbelievable" — which is not a word, except that his brain had accidentally mashed "crumbs" and "unbelievable" together and made a new one. Now we use it all the time. 

We make up words and meanings all the time; The hallway in our house is The Runway - because it’s a bit creepy at nighttime and so we always run down it. ALSO it’s great for fashion shows - during the day.

Our car, The Listies Mobile, The remote control, ‘TV bleep bleep’, Blurping, burping while talking

Eventually we made up so many that we put them all in a book called, Ickypedia: A Dictionary of Disgusting words. 

We’re sure that your family has words that only they use. We think you should gather them up and put them all in the one place. Like your own family dictionary. Once you’ve done that, we think you should invent a billion more words. Your mission is to make your own Family Ickypedia.

MAKING UP WORDS TIPS

There are lots of ways to make up a word. Here are some different ways to make up word.

Smash two words together (the proper word for this is a port-mantau)
Crumbs + unbelievable = Crumbelievable
Crying + laughing = Craughing
Scary + exciting = Scar-citing
Beautiful + Poo = Poo-tiful

Make up a completely new word and give it a meaning

Bzzrunk — the noise a fridge makes after you close it.
Smunge — the grey stuff that collects in a plug hole
Frobble — the walk you do after you spin around too many times.

The Spin-a-nator: The Microwave.

Take a word and swap part of it for something that rhymes
YouTube = Eeeewtube — the internet's most disgusting website
Sunscreen = Fun-screen — a screen that is actually fun

The Dawn Mower - the man down the road who mows his lawn in the morning.

Now your turn. Think of something in your family that doesn't have a word yet. Pick one of the methods above, or ignore all of them and do it your own way.

Write your word down. Write what it means. Draw a picture if you want.

Here are some things that don’t have names yet. 

  • A cupboard that smells like cheese?

  • The wet towel that's been left of the floor

  • Pasta with Green sauce

  • A crusty breakfast bowl covered in dried cereal.

  • A cat your always see around the neighbourhood but never get to pat

  • SOMEONE WHO EATS THE LAST BISCUIT.

  • The drawer full of batteries, rubber bands and plastic bags and all that junk

  • Arguing over watching who gets to play the game first

  • Finding and eating a chip in the bottom of the take away bag.

  • A super fluffy dog - DLOOFY!

  • The jumpy walk you do when the floor is cold and you've got no socks on?

  • A messy cook.

  • The feeling when you open the fridge, stare, close it, then open it again hoping something new appeared?

  • The chair in the house that is not for sitting on but is entirely covered in clothes?

  • The place in the lounge room where the shoes naturally gather.

What you need:

  • A notebook (this is your FAMILY ICKYPEDIA now)

  • Pens

  • Your family, and their brains and their mouths and their eyes to look at things.

  • A toilet roll - you can never be too careful.