We call it a Soothie. Because we first used the actual Soothie brand pacifier that they gave us at the hospital and then the name just stuck for all pacifiers.
2007-02-21 09:41:04 · 13 answers · asked by Mommy...LT 3 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
they got the name binky because when they first came out that was the major brand name for them....that was the company that made them.....i call them nuk nuks because that is the kind that i first got at the hospital...they were made by the Nuk company and my daughter calls them nu nus because she is only two and that is just how she says nuk nuk. lol
2007-02-21 09:55:24 · answer #1 · answered by blah blah blah 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm quite sure that Binky was also a name brand at one time. I think over time folks have just kept using that name because it sounded more 'baby-ish' than the word pacifier. Some folks find it necessary to talk to their children in a baby-ish manner, instead of calling out to your one year old "Do you want your pacifier?, they instead call out "Do you want your binky? - it just sounds like something that a baby would want more.. I'm one of those folks too though, however we just used the shorter version of pacifier and went with paci. Nothing else, just paci.
2007-02-21 17:57:16 · answer #2 · answered by momto3 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not sure if they are still in production today, but "Binky" used to be a brand name of a popular pacifier. I used to call mine "momo" because, hey, gimme a break, i was only like 1 1/2!
2007-02-21 17:46:35 · answer #3 · answered by karen p 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Playtex actually makes a model of pacifer called Binky. I've seen it in stores
2007-02-21 18:44:05 · answer #4 · answered by guard_girl21 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Binky was a brand, here in the south they're called "foolers" a lot.
2007-02-21 17:53:42 · answer #5 · answered by Sacajaweava 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not sure how they got the name binky, but we call it the paci. Yeah, not so original.
I have also heard them called:
baby plug
cork
sucker
suckie
chew toy
nippy
ninny
button
bobo
dummy (in the UK and Australia)
oshaburi (in japan, meaning 'sucker')
2007-02-21 17:53:26 · answer #6 · answered by Emmy's Mom 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We call them a "PACI", just because I hate the name "binky".
I also heard a friend call it a "nothin" because they get nothing out of them!!
2007-02-21 17:53:58 · answer #7 · answered by Jesse R 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It got it's nickname because of the noise it makes while babies suck on it. The squeaky noise, "binky, binky" lol. I always called them plugs.
2007-02-21 17:47:17 · answer #8 · answered by SavvyGrl 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
We call them Nukky after the brand and my sister uses paci. Try and break the habit early!! :) LOL
2007-02-21 17:58:00 · answer #9 · answered by gertyp44 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
in my family we called them noochies
2007-02-21 17:56:05 · answer #10 · answered by GEEGEE 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋