In the movie, "The Little Mermaid", what did Scuttle call a fork?

In The Little Mermaid, Scuttle calls a fork a “dinglehopper.”

Scuttle is Ariel’s seagull friend and self-proclaimed expert on human objects. When Ariel shows him a fork recovered from a sunken ship, he confidently gives it the invented name “dinglehopper” and claims humans use it to comb and style their hair. Ariel accepts the explanation, making the fork one of the film’s most memorable jokes.

The term is not a real name for a fork; it is Scuttle’s humorous mistake. The joke works because Ariel has never lived among humans and relies on Scuttle’s unreliable interpretations of human technology. The scene also reflects a recurring theme in the film: objects from the human world are familiar to viewers but mysterious to Ariel and her underwater friends.

A nearby mix-up involves the smoking pipe found with the fork. Scuttle calls that object a “snarfblatt.” In the 1989 animated film, both words became part of The Little Mermaid’s pop-culture vocabulary, although the objects remain a fork and a pipe in the real world.