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
Inkompatibel
Wall block
The Dingus. Wall wart. And a whole number of colorful names if I step on one with the prongs up, or roll my ankle on one in the dark!
wall wart
I recently got odd looks for saying exactly this. I swear that’s what everyone where I live (Ohio, USA) USED to call them.
USB charger.
USB wall-wart
Now that you make me think about it I think I've been calling them different names depending on what I intended to use them for, most of the time (I'm translating) I call them phone charger but I also called the power supply or usb power supply when I wanted to power something else.
Never thought about it.
Block
USB chargers
Chakra, Charging brick, power adapter
Charging brick, or power adapter.
I can't think of a better term for these.
Brick.
cube or charging cube
Charger or phone charger
Charger block
USB-Power-Supply
Plugs?
It appears the manufacturers call them power adapters
Squares
The wonders of spanish
Plug adapter - UK
Everything you said was except for dongle. I absolutely would not accept that in my household.
Switchmode power supply.
USB charger ("usb-laddare"), also when they are used as a permanent transformer.
Butt candy.
When I'm speaking English, I think I call them USB-to-outlet-thingy. Otherwise it's almost, but not exactly a direct translation: USB-Stecker.
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