Personal nicknames or terms for things.

Sometimes, I jokingly call melee weapons "one-beat applications" and weapons in general "farming implements" (as in, "I could use some farming implement like an AK-47").

In my family, we tend to say "gazorkus" for any unmentionable part of one's anatomy. As in: "pain in the gazorkus" or "It's so cold, I'm freezing my gazorkus off!"

"QUALITY" (allcaps optional) for anything So Bad, It's Good

"Autocorrupt" for autocorrect, especially when it turns words into unintended stuff. Originally used it as part of a comic but then I just kept saying it on other occasions

Edited by Zanreo on Jan 24th 2019 at 12:11:38 PM

I tend to refer to Pikachu as "E-dude". As in "electricity dude". Dunno why, it's just something I do. Sometimes applies to other fictional characters related to electricity.

I don't like the terms "high-functioning" or "low-functioning" to describe autism, (mainly because people don't know what functioning means and assume some "high-functioning" individuals are normal in some cases, whereas though they can seem like they need kneepads and a helmet in others. And I personally believe negative connotations come from both, specifically "low-functioning" individuals being though of as spastic and needing a caretaker and for "high-functioning" autistics as ultra-inteligent and hyperfocused, causing stereotypes of autistics (and Aspergians) as being Einsteins or Gages) so I refer to people with "low-functioning autism" as a Drax and people with "high-functioning autism" or Asperger's Syndrome, a Quill

Edited by KeironCioran on Jan 29th 2019 at 10:36:49 AM

I've got a couple related to Pokemon. I don't like the term "HM Slave" for Utility Party Members, so I use the term "Designated HM User" instead. Also, there's an instrument used in the Mystery Zone music in Diamond and Pearl (listen closely at around 0:30 to 0:38) that I don't know the actual name for, so I just call it the "Mystery Zone Death Rattle" because it's a significant part of what makes the track so creepy to me (which is great for a theme that says "you're not supposed to be here").

My terms for throwing things goes, in increasing power, from toss to pitch to throw to yeet. Tossing for anything relatively heavy I don't need to throw far, pitching for anything I intend to do damage with, like grenades or anything bladed and launchable, throw for quest objectives, and yeet as a blanket term for anything that gets launched for a comical distance.

I call potato gems (that's tater tots to you Yanks) "spud nuggets".

I call my mountain bike Prowl.

Not sure if video game characters count, but since I have a Greek Tortoise named "Sigma," I mainly refer to the Mega Man X villain as a "big palooka" (which makes me feel like I'm some sort of Karmic Trickster when playing any X game), among other nicknames. The nickname depends on what installment I'm playing, like, for example, "Wolverine Terminator" in X2 (because of his having claws akin to the former and his resembling to the eponymous android of the latter), "Shield Honky" in X3, or "Junkbeard" in X4.

Edited by I-Teleported-Bread on May 6th 2019 at 9:14:39 AM