Personally, I can't stand the name "binky". I'll call it a "pacifier" as I have my whole life, through lots of siblings, cousins, and years of nannying... I never tired of calling it by it's name, the pacifier.
I was not raised in a cutsey family and I hope to continue that. I will try to use the correct terms for everything.
YES!!!!!!! My thoughts EXACTLY...and I'd like to add...I absolutly can not stand nicknames for pacifiers...for some reason it drives me crazy! Usually things like this do not bug me EVER...but this is one thing that does.
Depends - for the most part pacifiers or pacis. Some in fam call it a binky. The big one when we were all small was "goy." My uncle, a few years older than I, used to make a noise that sounded like "goygoygoy" when he was sucking on it so his siblings referred to it as his goy. It stuck for me and the next several grandchildren but drifted away as we got to grandkids, the next generation (that is what we older set refer to the cousins who are young enough to be our kids as)
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We call it a Bink. It's funny, I can understand how this would sound grating to someone else because I find it annoying when others call it a paci or anything else.
Re: S/O Paci Question: What do you call it?
Pacifier or paci. I think that's pretty much it.
To me, a "binki" is a blanket for some reason.
I personally can't stand the term "binki."
For lack of anything else that I like, I will probably call it a "paci"
wow. ummm...let's hope she doesn't have a thick accent of some sort. it could be misunderstood!
I think I called it a "pucky" and my sister called them "suckers" for my niece.
Pacifiers.
I was not raised in a cutsey family and I hope to continue that. I will try to use the correct terms for everything.
YES!!!!!!! My thoughts EXACTLY...and I'd like to add...I absolutly can not stand nicknames for pacifiers...for some reason it drives me crazy! Usually things like this do not bug me EVER...but this is one thing that does.
We called them nuk's (like the brand), until DD started calling them nuk-kies. Then, she just started calling them "keys."
Then, to get her to stop using it, we called it a stinky.
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