/r/wildbeef
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
My friend trying to think of the Statue of Liberty
Leggings
Speaker. I was playing Scribblenauts, and I could not for the life of me remember the word speaker.
I meant heating pads 😞
Sonic...
(Why didn't I say blue hedgehog...?)
My friend forgot the word for pediatrician
the fucking sheet pan
I was trying to remind my partner to put on a Nasal Strip before bed
Somehow forgot the word for 'full'.
Troye Sivan
Hairy. The word I was looking for was hairy.
Kingambit from Pokémon Scarlet and Violet
"You know, a swimmer who saves swimmers."
It was a Lifeguard.
Wallpaper (granted, this was in a D&D setting)
My partner forgot what a mortician was.
I forgot what pencil leads (the ones used in mechanical pencils) were called, so I called them pencil ammo
A kettle, my friend had to remind me what it’s actually called
Forgot what a violin was called..
Coroner.
My mom called the blender the zoosh the other day. I’ll never let her live it down.
A lovely girl in the washroom said she liked my "half coat." Didn't have the heart to tell her it was a vest.
I’m pretty fluent in English, but this time I didn’t know the word for Hydrogenated oils..
Couldn't remember the term hash browns this morning.
I forgot what those little boxes that hold proposal rings are called. I still can't remember 😭 are they just called boxes???
I meant "marshmallow". Momentarily forgot both the word "marshmallow", and the actual meaning of "mushroom".
pina colada
courtesy of Lordminion777 on twitch
He meant to say "fencing"
He meant to say "fencing"
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.”