/r/wildbeef

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Those stupid names you come up with when you've forgotten the real word.

A wild beef is a cow!

Those stupid names you come up with when you've forgotten the real word.

A wild beef is a cow!

A wildbeef can be used to describe anything - the only real requirement is that it's a genuine attempt to describe something where the actual word has been momentarily forgotten. Deliberately silly descriptions of animals belong on /r/properanimalnames, please check them out if you enjoy reading posts on this sub!


POSTING GUIDELINES

  • Please post the 'wild beef' part of your post as the title, with the actual name in the post body.

  • OC is heavily encouraged - and please don't post stuff you've found elsewhere without checking the top posts first! As funny as it is, the Liquid Zoo has been posted a hundred million times already.

  • Wildbeefs are not malapropisms, misspellings, or typos. Those are better suited to /r/boneappletea or /r/boneappletypo. If your post would fit on those subs or any other language mix-up ones (like /r/engrish) then it probably doesn't belong here. The same goes for /r/puns - if it looks like a deliberate joke, it's not a wildbeef.

/r/wildbeef

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Cognitive ca-ca – French-inspired silliness that acknowledges crappy thinking.

5 Comments
2025/02/01
23:41 UTC

121

George Washington Green Lady

My friend trying to think of the Statue of Liberty

3 Comments
2025/02/01
23:11 UTC

42

Between pants

Leggings

3 Comments
2025/02/01
14:13 UTC

39

MUSIC BOX

Speaker. I was playing Scribblenauts, and I could not for the life of me remember the word speaker.

5 Comments
2025/01/31
20:30 UTC

16

Heating pillow

I meant heating pads 😞

0 Comments
2025/01/31
03:28 UTC

74

Blue fast guy

Sonic...

(Why didn't I say blue hedgehog...?)

8 Comments
2025/01/30
14:58 UTC

18

Kids doctor

My friend forgot the word for pediatrician

2 Comments
2025/01/30
08:44 UTC

44

Oven Board

the fucking sheet pan

1 Comment
2025/01/30
05:10 UTC

53

Snorf sticker

I was trying to remind my partner to put on a Nasal Strip before bed

1 Comment
2025/01/29
22:16 UTC

100

Ran out of hungry

Somehow forgot the word for 'full'.

1 Comment
2025/01/29
18:07 UTC

38

The gay Australian

Troye Sivan

3 Comments
2025/01/28
23:29 UTC

91

"I might have a shave, underneath my chin is getting all... shave-needy"

Hairy. The word I was looking for was hairy.

0 Comments
2025/01/28
22:07 UTC

1

Jin Sakai

Kingambit from Pokémon Scarlet and Violet

2 Comments
2025/01/28
18:45 UTC

69

A Swim EMT

"You know, a swimmer who saves swimmers."

It was a Lifeguard.

0 Comments
2025/01/28
02:52 UTC

25

Decorative film

Wallpaper (granted, this was in a D&D setting)

0 Comments
2025/01/28
02:45 UTC

80

Dead people doctor

My partner forgot what a mortician was.

4 Comments
2025/01/27
19:44 UTC

76

Pencil Ammunition.

I forgot what pencil leads (the ones used in mechanical pencils) were called, so I called them pencil ammo

2 Comments
2025/01/26
19:34 UTC

68

Tea boiler

A kettle, my friend had to remind me what it’s actually called

6 Comments
2025/01/26
05:22 UTC

26

Big ukulele

Forgot what a violin was called..

3 Comments
2025/01/25
00:29 UTC

65

Dead people cop

Coroner.

4 Comments
2025/01/25
00:20 UTC

93

The zoosh

My mom called the blender the zoosh the other day. I’ll never let her live it down.

10 Comments
2025/01/25
00:13 UTC

52

Half coat

A lovely girl in the washroom said she liked my "half coat." Didn't have the heart to tell her it was a vest.

7 Comments
2025/01/24
21:04 UTC

44

Carbohydrated oils

I’m pretty fluent in English, but this time I didn’t know the word for Hydrogenated oils..

4 Comments
2025/01/22
18:14 UTC

29

Little bits of french fries

Couldn't remember the term hash browns this morning.

0 Comments
2025/01/21
21:46 UTC

120

Husband box

I forgot what those little boxes that hold proposal rings are called. I still can't remember 😭 are they just called boxes???

12 Comments
2025/01/21
16:05 UTC

43

Mushroom

I meant "marshmallow". Momentarily forgot both the word "marshmallow", and the actual meaning of "mushroom".

5 Comments
2025/01/21
14:54 UTC

3

white margarita with the pineapple thing

pina colada

courtesy of Lordminion777 on twitch

1 Comment
2025/01/21
03:06 UTC

13

Jousting with a Knife

He meant to say "fencing"

0 Comments
2025/01/21
03:13 UTC

40

Jousting with a Knife

He meant to say "fencing"

0 Comments
2025/01/21
03:13 UTC

38

The Dick State

Florida! I was at Burning Man, riding my bike around, high as Saint Peter’s balls. I saw this one camp that had a bunch of neon signs that I wasn’t sure were dicks or Florida, except that I couldn’t remember what Florida was called, so my inner monologue just called it “that state that looks like a dick.”

2 Comments
2025/01/21
03:00 UTC

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