...to think this is the ugliest word in the English language?

[DarceyBissell]

...gobsmacked.
I have heard even BBC types say it, politicians even.
Every time I hear it I want to puncture my own eardrums. Ugly, crass, lazy, crude.
Also hate nouns as verbs - mothballed, torched etc.
Think I am too sensitive for this world.
Any other words/phrases make you see red?

[currywurst3]

"When can I have sight of that"

Instead of...

"When can I see that"

[Tee2072]

Nope. I save my ire for trafficked children and abused people. Not for letters strung together into sayings.

[snooter]

agree gobsmacked horrible
incentivised is pretty awful
Hate hearing Issues all the time - are Problems out of fashion?

[WorraLiberty]

'Gusset' is the ugliest word in the English language - FACT

[ThisReallyIsNotSPNopeNotAtAll]

I dont understand how gobsmackes is crude

[SanityClause]

I love the fact that, in English, any noun can be verbed.

[pictish]

Vagina isn't the loveliest word.

[MalcolmTuckersMum]

I'll see your 'gusset' worra and raise you runny, crevice and moist.

[EarlyInTheMorning]

Pud for pudding
biccie for biscuit
choccy for chocolate
butty for sandwich
piccie for picture...

... you get the idea

[peeriebear]

As soon as I saw your thread title I thought "whatever it is, it's not as horrid as Gobsmacked!" haha. It's just foul.

[Hardhaton]

Precious - seems to be certain people's favorite word at the moment.
I am really starting to hate it

[perplexedpirate]

Gobsmacked is HORRIBLE! There's a DJ who refers to sidings as 'gobsmackers'. I have to switch him off.

[perplexedpirate]

Sidings???

Some songs, I meant.

[DarceyBissell]

Tee - am gobsmacked by your po-faced (that's another one) response.

[WorraLiberty]

I'll see your 'gusset' worra and raise you runny, crevice and moist

I'm sorry, I should really have turned my web cam off

[TheFallenMadonna]

I love gobsmacked!

I hate the word vulgar. Or rather, I rarely hear it used in a context that doesn't make me

[snooter]

Early - not even Chip Butty?

[JRY44]

early butty is not the shortened version of sandwich, but comes from "buttered bread" which was all us northerners could afford in the 19th Century!
I hate the phrase "ticks all the boxes" and the words membrane and mucus. Up their with moist.

[MalcolmTuckersMum]

worra


Leak is not a nice word either. Nor is flange, appendage or canal.

[travellingwilbury]

Moist is indeed a grim word .

However spongy and elbow are lovely words .

[TheRealFellatio]

Early you and I should run away together. We are clearly made for one another. I have started whole threads devoted to my hatred of words like that. (although I do admit to using the phrase 'chip butty' on MN earlier today, but that is the only exception to my rule. Other than that the word butty is taboo for me.)

I get creeped out by people calling Yorkshire Puddings 'Yorkshires' and roast potatoes 'roasts' or 'roasties.' It actually makes me recoil and feel a bit ill.

And don't get me started on people who have a cuppa or make a brew.

[littlehandcuffs]

Scrotum

[DarceyBissell]

...people who say 'I'm loving...'(whatever it is).
Something that's a 'must-have.'

[TheFallenMadonna]

Scrotum is grim. I'd be miffed if I were male. I think female bits are more melodious.

[PicnicPie]

Moreish

"Hmmm they're so moreish"

Hate it.