What do you call these in your part of the country?

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1. Soother /suder

2. Dodo or dody.

3. Dodi

4. Soother

5. soother

6. Dummy

7. Dodo or dummy

8. Soother

9. Smoczek

10. Wexford, a dodie. Wife is Cork, she says dummy.

    Grandfather (would have been 100 this year) used to call them a dumb-tit. Which I’m sure is the origin of dummy!

11. Its always been called a Dummy in Donegal, but I hear newer parents calling all sorts of names.

12. Dodo

13. It’s a dummy you dummy

14. Dummy

15. Buttplug

16. Binky

17. Dummy

18. Dummy (Derry/Donegal).

19. Soother

20. Soother

21. Ciuccio

22. Soothers, only remembered after reading the post

23. Dooodee pronounced “do, Dee”

24. A dummy

25. Soother (Dublin)

26. Soother

27. I’m too old to be only realising sooder is spelled soother. And discovering that the word is descriptive of the service it provides… To soothe!!

28. Soother – Dublin

29. Doodie. Dummy or soother. Also often called where the f is it now 😄

30. Dodie or dodo

31. Nu Nu

32. Doodie

33. Soother

34. Peace and Quiet 🤫 😁

35. Doody

36. Soother

37. Dummy or dody

38. Soother (Armagh). But Belfast partner calls it a ‘dummy’

39. Dublin – Dodi or soother

40. From Newfoundland – it was a dummy or soother. Old ppl sometimes used the term ‘dumb tit’ lol. And we learned the ‘proper’ word was supposedly pacifier.

41. That there’s a dummy tit.

42. County Down – Dough-dee or Dodo

43. Dummy or dody

44. I’ve been calling em chazzwazzas