Active discussions

Please or to access all these features

Talk
AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Original poster

To despise the word 'comfy'?

133 replies

citylightsbehind · 27/02/2025 17:06

Urggggggh. I don't know why, but I hate it.

I personally will abide a bit of discomfort for aesthetic reasons, but would never look askance at those who choose comfort over fashion.

I just have a, possibly unreasonable, hatred of the word.

OP posts:
GoodToBeHome · 27/02/2025 17:47

ItGhoul · 27/02/2025 17:42

But the OP was talking about the word 'comfy', I think, rather than the actual concept of comfort?

Show quote history

From the OP'S post:
I personally will abide a bit of discomfort for aesthetic reasons
I love to be comfy too much to abide a bit of discomfort for aesthetic reasons!

BallerinaRadio · 27/02/2025 17:46

Bizarre

TerrifiedandWorried · 27/02/2025 17:45

When I was at school my friend did her gcse art project around the word comfy. Only, she spelt it cumfy.

ItGhoul · 27/02/2025 17:42

GoodToBeHome · 27/02/2025 17:38

I love all things comfy! Huge soft sofas, king-size bed with memory foam mattress, soft dressing gown and loads of blankets.
Sorry but comfy is my happy place!

But the OP was talking about the word 'comfy', I think, rather than the actual concept of comfort?

GoodToBeHome · 27/02/2025 17:38

I love all things comfy! Huge soft sofas, king-size bed with memory foam mattress, soft dressing gown and loads of blankets.
Sorry but comfy is my happy place!

ItGhoul · 27/02/2025 17:29

It doesn't annoy me, but at the same time I don't know why 'comfortable' gets its own abbreviation when other comparable adjectives don't. What's special about the concept of 'comfortable' that it needs a shortened version?

Oddly, 'veggie', as referenced above by @Lovageandgeraniums, really grates on me. I also hate it when people say 'roasties' and 'Yorkies' for roast potatoes and Yorkshire puddings. Oh and when people describe themselves as a 'foodie'. And when tennis commentators call left-handed players 'lefties'.

I appreciate this is very much my problem and not theirs, though. I make no claims to rationality over this.

Hitherzither · 27/02/2025 17:27

And 'pamper'. Yuk, it is so infantilising. Makes women sound like they want to be babied and back in nappies.

Lovageandgeraniums · 27/02/2025 17:21

I hate it too. Horrible cosy laziness. I also hate 'veggie'.