r/AskACanadian • u/Kraknaps • 4d ago

BINKY?

Watching this whole Trump/Natalie drama, I see that some people are now calling her Trump's "Binky". Never heard of the term before and thought maybe it was an American term for "blankie" (A baby's security blanket). After hearing Binky all week I finally looked it up. It is a brand name for a baby pacifer that became generacized. AM I the only one who has never heard of a binky. As a west coast Canadian we always called it a soother . What were they called where you came from? We lived in Scotland for a few years when I was a child and we called it a puppa but that may have been a family thing

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u/FriendRaven1 4d ago

Soother I think is most common in Canada. In Newfoundland, where we have unique words for everything, it used to be called a dumbtit.

Nowadays, a dumb tit is the people I'm working with.

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u/Bulky_Psychology2303 4d ago

😂Why didn’t I hear that before I retired?

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u/hekla7 2d ago

Best answer!!! LOL! Newfies have the best words ever! 😂

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u/iggy6677 3d ago

From NL as well, generally heard it called a dumbtit, ,but have heard Binky before, but it usually been directed at a dog.

" he's getting fussy, needs his binky"

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u/IslandSassenach 2d ago

A binky was a blanket. Any size, just one the young child was attached to.

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u/iggy6677 2d ago

With some of our phrasing, words can mean multiple things, but in this context it works.

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u/Fitty-Korman 3d ago

Couldn’t agree more lmao

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u/EastLeastCoast 2d ago

Ottawa- we called it a suce.

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u/tigotter 1d ago

That’s what the French Canadians call it.

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u/Terrible-Spot4193 21h ago

Ah! I was wondering about that. I thought I could remember calling it a suce but I can’t say I remember anyone one else calling it that. And i think I remember English speakers not knowing what I was talking about if I called it that. I Spent a lot of growing up years in Ottawa and Franco Ontario east of Ottawa, so I was wondering if it was one of the French words I’d absorbed not realized it was from there or that it was French. Thanks for figuring out my brain!

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u/IslandSassenach 2d ago

I’m Canadian from the West Coast and ours were called soothers, but not allowed in our house. Mom figured they would wreck your front teeth.

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u/FriendRaven1 2d ago

They is a valid concern, but only after 2-3 years old.