fuggarugga
April 24, 2008
When we visited Yeller & Co. a few days ago, I learned a great new word from two-year-old Emma.
Fuggarugga
If you ask Emma which Disney princess is her favorite, she’ll respond with, “Fuggarugga!” Which of course means “Cinderella”. Of course.
Niel and I have said it multiple times a day ever since.
We use it to mean a variety of things. Anything, really, except of course Cinderella.
It’s our new multi-purpose word, sometimes used as an exclamation of joy—”We get to sleep late tomorrow! Fuggarugga!”—or even an expletive-alternative. “Fuggarugga! We missed our turn!”
You should try it out.
I know you wanna.
What’s your word of the week?
Holy crap you have no comments yet!!
WOOHOO!! I left the FIRST one!!!
Ok, I too love Cinderella and Bell from Beauty and the beast. I don’t have a word for this week, I will have to borrow yours. I think it’s stuck in my head now that I have read it in your post!! Thanks a lot!
Not to age myself but I remember my aunt Aggie taking me to see Walt Disney’s Cinderella when it first came out. It is amazing that it still thrills children, and adults, today. A truly timeless story.
One word I do keep thinking of this week is “sunrise”. A new beginning for everyday, when I can drag myself out of bed early enough to drive to the beach and watch it.
change
@danielleH says:
This is (of course) one of my favorite posts ever! It toatally made me laugh out loud through the whole thing. I’m glad Emma changed your lives. Just try to explain that one if it slips out during a meeting or sermon :) Its so funny as an “expletive-alternative”. I’ll have to print his out for her memory box! hehe
My word? I don’t think I have one, I’d like to use yours…but then Emma would be really confused!
@danielleH says:
And I’m glad you spell it right :P
It is sooo funny to me that you wrote this post, because after visiting Yeller & Co myself, I will just blurt out for my own entertainment, “Fuggarugga.”
Someone in my house used to say suppataghetti instead of spaghetti.
My word of the week? “Crap.”
Whoops. I guess I just told the whole word that I have a WordPress page.
@danielleH says:
Funny Nat Jane! You say it to?
And Alece, I really like the link you chose for “Emma”. That was a sweet one. :)
NatJ: sellout! ;)
@atangie says:
What a fun word!
ed — i loved hearing that you saw cinderella in the theater. you are my hero today.
natalie — how fun that you’ve been using the word, too! that made me laugh. and i love that you’ve got a wordpress site now!
and mandy — c’mon! you asked for a funner (???) topic to banter about in the comment section and all i got out of you was “change”??? get your game on, girl!
My Word of the Week for this week and the last 6 has been ‘Yaww’!
Thanks Mandy! (and to a slightly lesser extent, Tam, for being the ’cause’ of the video)
So not ‘Aussie’.
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yaww, bub. nice.
Hmmm … no word of the week comes to mind. :( Sorry to leave you disappointed. I like Fuggarugga, though. I have to ask: is it pronounced fUHgarUHga, or fOOgarOOga?
good question, anneth.
fUHgarUHga
you should make that your word of the week!
@tamhodge says:
shootdarn!
its my favorite euphemism. it makes me laugh. a lot. laughings good, no?
ok. fine! again….
Love: i’m SOOOO proud of you! i hope to one day HEAR “yaww” in that aussie accent of yours. YES SIR!!!
Annie: THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for asking the question we’ve ALL wanted to ask! but, alas, i’m so disappointed in the answer. :(
Tam: no.
disappointed??? why????
@atangie says:
Usually in English grammar a vowel followed by a repeated consonant is pronounced with it’s short sound, with the exception of the vowel a (i.e. ball). There are ALWAYS exceptions to the rules in our botched up but dearly beloved English language.
Here are some examples of words that follow that rule:
taffy
wellness
pillow
follow
dull (depending on your dialect)
The letter u is a tricky one.
You did well with your spelling Alece.
and that coming from a teacher! i’m glad i spelled it right, gigi!
@atangie says:
I would still like to know why Mandy is disappointed though.
Mandy, wassup wit dat cuz’?
This post made me laugh…I can totally see you and Neil doing this.
I don’t really have a “word” substitute, but Kev does…….
“Son of a Biscuit Eater!” :) ha!
ha ha! niel will like that one!
@ngipedia, thank you AGAIN for making things so clear around here. we’d be LOST without you! ;)
why am i disappointed? um. well. ladies.
because, if it’d been fOOgarOOga, then i wouldn’t constantly have this unfortunate four-letter word in my head every time i read fuggarugga.
i’m just sayin…
ha ha ha! got it!
Absolutely loved this :)
@cassgirl says:
dolly darn its!!!
I got it from my 7 year old when he cusses.
If he uses this.. no hot chile on the lips. :)
@atangie says:
Mandy – you are welcome. :-)
Fabulous and Jimminy Christmas – not sure on the spelling, but you all seem to know your spelling rules so well, maybe you can enlighten me on the spelling of Jimminy.
I forgot Kev’s other one…..it came out this afternoon when he was working on the truck and dropped a bolt…..
“Sheestenfarger!” :)
sheestenfarger?! ha ha!
dolly darn its?!?! man oh man. some of you have some really good ones!
:-)
Mine is “Botocasido” (pronounced: BA-da-ca-SEE-do)
It’s a word that means absolutely nothing! It has no meaning or definition, yet it is an all purpose word. You can use it for almost anything you’d like.
(I use it because I heard some friends of my say it.)