USB charger.
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Isn't it a mobile charger?
Charger.
Adapters for upgrading your home’s firmware.
Wall block USB wall block
Most of the time, we just call it block , I’ve never heard of wall wart. Today I learned…
My family calls them charging doots
Edit: or also sometimes “wall-to-usb adapters”
Wall block
USB charger
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!
Chargie boys.
USB wall adaptor
Charging brick. I don't think I've ever heard them called anything else besides a charger.
Squares
The wonders of spanish
Block
USB adaptor
If context is unclear might add a "mains" or even "C" in the middle as needed.
Everything you said was except for dongle. I absolutely would not accept that in my household.
Charger or phone charger
USB bricks or USB chargers
Plugs?
It appears the manufacturers call them power adapters
Switchmode power supply.
Plug adapter - UK
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.
Charging brick, or power adapter.
I can't think of a better term for these.
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.
Wall warts are large transformer blocks that don't have an AC cable but rather have an integrated plug. Yes this is a transformer that plugs straight into the wall, but it's tiny. It's at most a wall pimple.
wall pimple it is then
Chakra, Charging brick, power adapter
USB chargers
USB-Power-Supply