# When did "binky" start meaning "pacifier"?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 4, 2006, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-binky-start-meaning-pacifier/338446 "2006-01-04T19:43:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-binky-start-meaning-pacifier/338446/41 "2006-01-08T16:10:36Z")

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I’ve always refered to my pacifier as a “nummy” or “num-num”. My mother is British, so I always assumed that the term had an English derivation. I think that everyone should call pacifiers “num-nums”, it is a perfectly respectable name.

I miss my num-num ☹

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