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No seriously, I always get blank stares when I ask people, I've called them wall chargers or power bricks, my friend called them plug chargers, my fiancee calls them dongles. What do you call these around your house, like when you're asking someone if they've seen any (______)'s
Charging block
Charging brick.
Unless I'm describing it in a system, then it's a full bridge rectifier :)
Chargie boys.
My favorite has always been "wall wart"
Usb wall charger
As a european, with safer plugs, a fire hazard.
Power bricks or USB bricks. A dongle is an adapter, so it has some sort of thing on each side (besides a power plug lol).
Dongles are historically not adapters but rather self contained devices that plug directly into another device. Often providing no function except to be detectable.
USB charger brick.
We call them Handyladegeräte, and I think that's beautiful
Had to check that out.
Handy = mobile phone
lade[n] = charge
geräte = devices
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Handy
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Ladeger%C3%A4t
Cargador (Charger)
usb cocks
Block
USB chargers.
"Dongles" are wire to wire USB adapters for computers. Sound "cards", Ethernet adapters, video adapters.
"Brick," or "charger brick." Sometimes "AC adapter."
Cable head
uhhh 'do you have a charger butt?' or 'hey, you got a buttplug? [while holding up my phone and shaking it] '
I usually call them "those, uh, usb thingies" while pantomiming plugging one into the wall
jimmie
Brick or Charger
USB power adapter
I’m reading through the comments and pretty much I’ve heard them called all of them and I’ve called them most of them
Except a wall wart
All of these work except "dongle". a dongle had a specific purpose in my day, some high end software wouldnt work without the dongle (a USB, serial or parallel device) plugged into the computer. Was an anti piracy device.
Marshmallow
Dongle? That implies connection to a host computer.
"wall block"
AC adapters
Fire hazards
I don't know, but now I'm calling them wall warts because this community corrupts us, lol.
Charge block.
USB charger or adapter
