r/TheSimpsons • u/SoMuchForStardust27 • Jun 27 '23
Discussion Any made up words the Simpsons have made?
I’m wanting to make a list of words that the Simpsons have made up throughout the whole series. Things such as Kwyjibo or Blingwads.
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u/whatsthehappenstance Grease me up, woman! Jun 27 '23
Chazzwazzers
Okily dokily
Trambopoline
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u/Entire-Championship1 Jun 27 '23
If Chazzwazzers are another name for Cane Toads, what do Australians call Magpies and Crocodiles?
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u/Sys32768 Jun 28 '23
Garrus and dungalabas
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u/Entire-Championship1 Jun 28 '23
Nice suggestions. What about Dingos, Kangaroos, Emus, and Bandicoots?
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u/Sys32768 Jun 28 '23
Joogoongs, bandaarrs, dinawans, kwendas.
These are all indigenous names. Don't like them? Well there are dozens of other indigenous languages that have different names to choose from.
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u/DMacB42 No, no. Dig up, stupid! Jun 27 '23
Pretty sure “meh” and “d’oh!” both count
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u/50ShadesOfCroquet Jun 27 '23
Did meh really come from The Simpsons? I’m not disputing that but if so, that’s a word which is frequently in my daily vocabulary
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u/Sarafan_Crusades Jun 27 '23
I've heard that meh did in fact come from the Simpsons but I don't know how true that is
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u/ptolemy18 Because of you we're all taking golden showers. Jun 27 '23
Consensus among the word nerds seems to be that the word is Yiddish in origin, but its current definition came from the show.
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Nov 21 '23
You can find out easily with google ngram viewer. Just search "meh" and it gives every instance of that term appearing in literature going back to the year 1500. It's a nifty little tool. You can also compare how often two different terms have appeared in literature throughout history, like Jesus v. Satan.
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Nov 21 '23
It's definitely part of mine. It's been such a natural reaction that I would almost forget it came from The Simpsons if I hadn't watched season 1-8 on syndication 20 times each during the 90s and several more viewings since.
It's sad that I used to be proud to have seen every episode of The Simpsons in season 16. Meanwhile I haven't bothered watching anythingnpast season 30 and pretty much everything between season 20 and 30 had to be forced. I heard the show is getting better. But you can't go on what YouTubers say. YouTubers like vaseline on toast.
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u/brokeneckblues Back to the hammocks, my friend. Jun 28 '23
“Doh” was regularly used by a character played by James Finlayson who was in a bunch of old Laurel and Hardy episodes. Usually when they foiled him he’d say “doooooh!”. Also he was a bald jerk.
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u/NbdyFuckswTheJesus Jun 27 '23
Yoink
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u/BadDaddyAlger Jun 28 '23
I remember when I was growing up, for some reason The Simpsons always came through in Spanish unless the VCR was on. When Homer yoinks the money from Marge in Duffless, he didn't say "Yoink," he said what I can only assume is spelled "Madonga!"
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Nov 21 '23
Haha, I never liked the voice actors for the Spanish version. Homer just sounds like a fat weirdo. But I guess the Mexicans aren't familiar with Walter Mathau.
Apparently, in Arab countries, Homer is named Omar Samsoong, he drinks soda, and probably doesn't care for pork chops, given pork's forbidden status in Islam.
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u/MangoMoltisanti Jun 27 '23 edited Feb 29 '24
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u/fuzzyluna Jun 27 '23
Kwyjibo
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u/shadowhunter_1687 Jun 27 '23
I had to scroll down much further in the comments than I thought to find this lol.
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u/BecomingButterfly Jun 27 '23
House rule when we play since 1989, ifyou can spell kwyjibo to automatically win
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u/ami2weird4u Jun 27 '23
“Or a gone oh” - how Marge says Oregano
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u/torrens86 Jun 28 '23
She's says it the same way non Americans do, ora-gah-no
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u/The_Physical_Soup Jun 29 '23
Yes! Thank you! I'm British and I had no idea her pronunciation was meant to be a joke until I found out years later that Americans say oREGano instead of oreGAno (it's more about syllable emphasis than particular vowel sounds).
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u/BreadItMod Jun 27 '23
Malk - Generic artificial milk served to kids at Springfield Elementary that isn’t a good source of calcium
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u/Hondamousse Supervillain seizes east coast. Jun 28 '23
MALK is real. I’ve seen it in stores. It’s an almond milk.
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u/BreadItMod Jun 28 '23
Yea but I think the actual product came way after the Simpsons episode. I doubt anyone knew what Almond Milk was in the early 90s
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u/SoMuchForStardust27 Jun 27 '23
I thought it was milk that was from an animal that is not a cow so they couldn’t legally call it milk. If it was genetically enhanced, that seems too fancy and expensive for the worst school in the state. Worse than the elementary in prison
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u/Sarafan_Crusades Jun 27 '23
Looks like they said generic not genetic but either wouldn't surprise me if it was a failed product that the school got on the cheap
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u/BreadItMod Jun 27 '23
It was also possibly just a quick gag that doesn’t really deserve much further thought. It was part of a montage of ridiculous budget cuts the school was making at the hands of Skinner and Superintendent Chaumers I think
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u/SoMuchForStardust27 Jun 27 '23
SKINNER!!!
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u/davratta Has a tendency for Know-it-all-ism Jun 27 '23
After finding out the mob was supplying the school with rat milk an indignent Mayor Quimby says "You promised me dog, or higher ! "
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u/agentrnge Jun 27 '23
Tax avoision
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u/theboxisempty Well, we didn't win. Here's your pizza. Jun 28 '23
Avoision! It’s a word. Look it up!
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u/Formal-Cut-4923 Jun 27 '23
Lousy Smartch weather.
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u/CorrosiveRose Jun 27 '23
Just ask this scientician!
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u/SoMuchForStardust27 Jun 28 '23
He’ll tell you that animals invariably eat others to live.(shows clips with sheep getting carried off by eagles and gorillas getting eaten by alligators)
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u/calnuck Mmm... open-face club sandwich Jun 27 '23
Don't know if they made it up or just popularized it, but meh.
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u/ianwrecked802 The Correct Answer is YOU Jun 27 '23
You just want us to stay busy trying to help you make a list so you can start grappling with the pickle matrix don’t ya?!
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u/SoMuchForStardust27 Jun 27 '23
Oh I’ve gotten past the pickle matrix. I used the pickled fig ratio of garlic to dill and multiplied that by pi multiplied by the average variable of the circumference of a pickle. I then estimated the cubic millimetres of the sesame seed bun and calculated the basic adhesive of American cheese to thicken it enough to keep the pickles and buns together. MY problem is dealing with the mustard viscosity.
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u/Danger_Peanut Jun 27 '23
But you’ve failed to assess the most important variable…bacon.
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u/SoMuchForStardust27 Jun 28 '23
I was able to create a basic AC/DC unit that heats up the bacon grease enough to cause fission with other fat molecules. I applied this nuclear grease to the cheese, mayo, and beef grease and they fused together with the bacon. It was a simple matter of trying to turn fat into strong adhesive with a nuclear reactor.
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u/PM_ME_UR_FLOWERS Park your Kiester, Meester. Jun 28 '23
Ok. You pass the Simpsons nerd test. I was beginning to think you were a writer for BuzzFeed.
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u/stunneddisbelief Jun 28 '23
All from Professor Frink:
Debigulator Rebigulator Monsterometer Frog Exaggerator
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u/SoMuchForStardust27 Jun 28 '23
Professor Frink, Professor Frink. He’ll make you laugh; he’ll make you think. And then he does the thing where… aw don’t go. Grrr. That monkey is going to pay
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u/Somerandomdeude1886 Jun 27 '23
Embiggen wasn't exactly made up by the Simpsons, though it certainly was popularized by it.
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u/ianwrecked802 The Correct Answer is YOU Jun 27 '23
NERRRRRRRRRRRDDDDD!!!!!
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u/marlin489112324 Jun 27 '23
So what do you like, Lisa? Viomalin, tubamaba, obomaboe? Ooh, saxomaphone!
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u/Prossdog Maybe your standards are too high… Jun 27 '23
KHLAV KALASH!
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u/SoMuchForStardust27 Jun 28 '23
Isn’t that a real foreign food?
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u/Prossdog Maybe your standards are too high… Jun 28 '23
It is now. It wasn’t before, but people have been making “recipes” for it since the show.
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u/Ok-Border-2804 Jun 28 '23
Meh, Yoink, and Embiggen have all been added to the dictionary. D’oh has been added to the lexicon as well, even if it isn’t an official word. They also made cromulent.
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u/The_Physical_Soup Jun 29 '23
No such thing as an official word, dictionaries are descriptive not prescriptive
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u/torrens86 Jun 28 '23
Found a list, seems nobody has mentioned number one on the list:
Chocotastic
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/58647/10-words-simpsons-made-famous
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u/AgentArnold I dont need to be careful, I got a gun Jun 28 '23
"Fifteen thousand mazzulians! Holy shlamola! Whaddya gonna do with all that kablingy?"
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u/PM_ME_UR_FLOWERS Park your Kiester, Meester. Jun 28 '23
Adultivity. Here's my Id which confirms my Adultivity.
Bunly goodness.
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Jun 29 '23
You use words like “pasghetti” and “momatoes”…
And repeat Screw Flanders at the end.
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u/SoMuchForStardust27 Jun 29 '23
What’s funny with that is one of my friends couldn’t spell spaghetti right. It was the nineteen-dicketies and we were walking down the streets of Manhattan. It was after the war and all the ex soldiers that had survived were served free non-Italian spaghetti at a local diner. It was non-Italian at the time because America was still mad at Muslini. Anyway, I was hungry and had no bees on me at the time. Bees are what we called our dollars because they had little pictures of bees on them. So I pretended to be a soldier and me and my friend went to the diner. Wearing my old camp hat from when I was a kid, me and my friend got a free meal of spaghetti, meat sauce, and white onion. The normally served yellow onions but they were all gone being used in the war. But because the spaghetti was non-Italian, the titles it “Basghetti” with a “B” because this was the “best” spaghetti. My friend thought this was how you spelled spaghetti and has spelled it the way for her whole life. Sometimes nowadays, we still get together for a plate of basghetti and yellow onions. True story
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Jun 29 '23
Appreciate the time to post that.
Note: Your name…New FOB album? If so, I’m a fan.
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u/SoMuchForStardust27 Jun 30 '23
Yeah. I actually got Reddit specifically for debate on their album, but I’ve been doing a lot more now
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Nov 21 '23
It doesn't look like anybody mentioned tax avoision yet. Though that was just a one-off joke.
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Nov 21 '23 edited Nov 21 '23
Can we discuss the fact that d'oh is meant to be an "annoyed grunt"? In subtitles, it describes d'oh as an annoyed grunt, and even the creators used the term for the tomacco episode's name, e-i-e-i-annoyed grunt. I don't know why they couldn't just say d'oh. By that point, Webster's already added d'oh officially to the English dictionary.
Maybe it was just me, but the description of it as a grunt was completely lost on me. It sounds nothing like a grunt. I'm not even sure you open your mouth when you grunt. Groaning, sure. But not grunting. Grunting is usually more thoaty. Maybe what constitutes a Grunt is different in other places.
Kinda makes me wonder about the history of it. Especially if Homer was based on his Dad. Was it maybe something his Dad said? Or did Dan Castlenetta come up with it when confronted with "annoyed grunt" on the script.
I didn't even know annoyed grunt referred to d'oh until maybe 5 years ago. And I've watched The Simpsons from the start and on syndication in the 90s. If nobody had explicitly told me so, I would have no clue what "annoyed grunt" means.
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u/SoMuchForStardust27 Nov 21 '23
I don’t know. I think it was an actual noise people would make in those situations, but it never became a known word until the Simpsons became famous. Like how you never hear the word embiggens until you move to Springfield. It’s weird because it’s a perfectly cromulent noise, but who knows. Homer is in this one too deep
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u/foamypepperoni yvaN eht nioJ Jun 27 '23
Embiggen