Words you are sick of hearing/reading

[Soubriquet]

Social distancing
Bubbles

What part of xxx do you not understand? Used on here with reference to staying at home and, more recently, wearing a mask.

Mermaid
Trans
Furlough

Woke

Covidiot

Covid anything
Clapping for anything at all
"Socially distanced, of course"
Mask
Captain Tom

And any words at all that come out of the mouth of a certain colleague who refused to come back to work because she "didn't feel safe" even though everyone else was and she has no underlying conditions and then has been putting the amazing time she's been having with her kids on full pay (public sector) on social media, where she has been ignoring SD rules.

Sheeples - seriously, do people using this word not realise how utterly thick they sound?

'Educate yourself' (when NOT said to newly homeschooled children).

Literal violence ( when applied to things which are literally not violence).

Literal violence ( when applied to things which are literally not violence).

Under the latest dictionary definition of 'literally' (which notes its informal use as being literally the opposite of the formal meaning), they could be though.

Keyworker
New normal
Bubble
2nd wave
Social distancing
Masks

(Whoever's) life matters (and arguments around the phrase).
Vaccine
Huawei
Cotton ceiling.
People with a penis/cervix/vagina/etc

Baby Mama
Baby Daddy
Quality time
woke

Weirdly enough baby mama/daddy has only appeared in the last few months

Why?!

'Rona instead of Corona

It's not cool and it's not edgy.

In my overactive imagination, it conjours up an image of someone wearing an 80s shell suit and a back to front baseball cap

Weirdly enough baby mama/daddy has only appeared in the last few months

Why?!

There's a 2008 film called that based on the expression, so it's been around a while!

Poorly-sick
Living my best life 🤮
Shielding

And now also all of the above

Oh I know it’s been around for a long time but it wasn’t common on mn

Now it suddenly is

Lots already mentioned.

And used to be Brexit for me, but after months of nothing but CV, I sort of miss it!

On MN it’s narcissicist, disingenuous, and get your ducks in a row!

We're all in this together!

After Cummings's eye test, Boris missing key opportunities for action and repeated incompetence from this self serving government... we are certainly not.

Anxiety
Mental health
Change Management
PPE
Adapting

I could go on....

Entitled - someone's acted like a wanker
Curated - you grouped together any old tut
Blended (families) - you married someone else and kids are involved.

I feel better.

I have more!

I don't want to be 'levelled with'.

There's no such thing as 'covid secure'

Any emails beginning "I hope you are all keeping safe..."

You're a knob.

Toxic
Problematic