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What completely inoffensive words can't you stand for no good reason?

399 replies

AintNobodyHereButUsChickens · 10/05/2020 13:48

I cannot stand it when people say spuds instead of potatoes. No idea why, I just hate it!
Will the spuds be ready soon?
Just pick some spuds up while you're at the shop.
The spuds need peeling.
Etc etc 🤮 Awful!

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BrexpatInSwitzerland · 12/05/2020 06:50

'Hubby encouraged me to pamper myself.'

Agreed, that's downright ghastly! (Also, in a credential for successful branding: evokes the image of him wanting her to wear adult diapers for some sex thing in this context. Confused)

And while I'm at it: "hubby"!

That doesn't sound like anyone you'd want to touch with a bargepole - never mind spending the rest of your life in an intimate relationship with.

SparkyBlue · 12/05/2020 07:21

Shall
Fetch
Poorly
I don't know why but those words really annoy me.

lotusbell · 12/05/2020 07:37

Calling your princess daughter 'Prinny'
Any alternative spelling or text speak - u, thort, rite, no (in place of know), wot, ave.
Holibobs and famalam
Pucker
Suck
Stink - as in "she's so stinkin' cute!" and
"That car goes like stink". Just no.

BettyStover · 12/05/2020 07:39

belly
buttie (e.g. bacon)
reach out (what happened to contact?)

yellowbluebell · 12/05/2020 07:39

Belly
Hun
Hubby
Lil man
Baby Daddy
Babes
My Bad
Chillax
Squad Goals

Songsparrow · 12/05/2020 07:40

Pita pockets
Pouch

CloudsCoveredTheSky · 12/05/2020 08:04

"Calling your princess daughter 'Prinny'"

Is this a thing? If so, just shoot me now because I don't want to live anymore.

One of my friends started calling me "gurrlll" in a faux-American sassy accent and I hate it but then I started using it to my husband as a joke every time he's annoying me and I can't stop.

Whattheduck · 12/05/2020 08:43

Calling food Grub
Mam
Shortening of words not all but things like sesh (session) or soz
(sorry)

lotusbell · 12/05/2020 09:03

@CloudsCoveredTheSky, sadly it is. It makes me cringe to just type it.

Also,
Winner winner, chicken dinner

And

Matchy matchy
Hmm

Zaphodsotherhead · 12/05/2020 09:53

Filling. As in 'I can't eat any more, jacket potatoes are just soooo filling!'

And hubby.

Anything pronounced incorrectly ('seketry, nucular' etc).

Ect instead of etc.

I could be here all day.

Ginisatonic · 12/05/2020 10:47

Horrid
Pleasant/unpleasant
Plate as a verb
Inhale when referring to food
Toms for tomatoes
Fuck ton - see it on here all the time. It makes no sense

PoloNeckKnickers · 12/05/2020 16:44

People who call a banana a nana.

emmetgirl · 12/05/2020 16:58

When people call a vulva a vagina. It seems anything between our legs (women obviously) is just referred to as a vagina. It's not. It's the vulva. The vagina is the muscular tube that starts on the outside of the body (at the vulva) and extends inside the body the the cervix.

bringincrazyback · 12/05/2020 21:15

'Flavoursome'. It's quite a useful word but just really makes me wince. It sounds so pretentious somehow. I'm probably BU given that I abhor the word 'tasty' even more. Grin

ginandgingers92 · 12/05/2020 21:58

The whole "you got this Mama" stuff at the mo make me feel a little queasy.

MarshaBradyo · 12/05/2020 22:00

Mama
Vile
Poorly
Kid

Horrible post writing that ;

Littleroundsponge · 12/05/2020 22:04

Job lot, no idea why but it just really irritates me!

ypestis · 12/05/2020 22:07

Blouse
Meh
Cock
Panties

And the following but only in relation to property:
Ladder
Second steppers
Portfolio

MarshaBradyo · 12/05/2020 22:08

The ‘pot’ part of pension pot

Mucklowe · 12/05/2020 22:09

"Tatty-bye"

ypestis · 12/05/2020 22:10

Also I have an irrational hatred of the crying with laughter emoticon and ROTFL

ohlookthisisjustdaftnow · 12/05/2020 22:11

So - especially when it is the first word of a sentence.

'n' - as an abbreviation for 'and'. It's short enough already.

I'm also starting to get slightly twitchy at the words 'lockdown' and 'social'.

blacksax · 12/05/2020 22:20

Baby daddy.
Gifting.
Mini beasts.
Panties.
Lush.
Mama.

nevernotstruggling · 12/05/2020 22:21

Belly button

Shaven

'N' gives me the rage

My exh calling the dds 'baby' in a stupid voice.

nevernotstruggling · 12/05/2020 22:22

Lo as in little one