What words do you hate?

[jelly79]

I'll start

Fiancé
Genre
Moist

C**t - i have no problem with swearing but fucking hate this word it’s just disgusting.

Buddy - I had an ex that called everyone Buddy, it drove me mad.

Well - that’s “well” good that, that’s “well” awesome that, no it’s fucking well not ggrrr

Dodo or Doodie - it’s dummy or I’d even settle for bloody pacifier, a Dodo is an extinct bird and Doodie was the guy shagging Lady Di.

Sicastic - it’s not even a word, my mother just couldn’t pronounce Sarcastic, I use to cringe listening to her.

Innit - wrong just wrong!

Keckle - it’s fucking kettle!

Fag - reminds me of chocking on smoke while by parents puffed away in their fags when we were kids. Also a horrible word for a gay man.

Knickers. So vulgar.

Always pants to me

Haha reminds me when I was about 14 going on a caravan holiday with a friends family, I was trying to be quiet while I did a poo in the toilet, all I heard was a big plop. I’d hoped they didn’t hear, but when I came out all her family, parents, 2 brothers, grandparents were there laughing as my friend called me plop the rest of the holiday. I was mortified.

Moist gusset

The word flesh makes me wince. I'm wincing now thinking of it.

I like some of these - although agree with a lot!

I’m adding Woke, gaslighting and catfish so over seeing and hearing these bloody words everywhere. Until MN I’d never even knew what they meant, I had to look that up.

Fanjo
Norks
Naice
Mumsnetty
UnMumsnetty

Settee
Lounge
Toilet

Kiddo and doggo.

Meal is fine, mealy is unpleasant and mealy-mouthed is just awful.

Adults calling their patents “ mummy and daddy “. Just stop it, now !.
Panties
Boobs

Absolutely with you. And narcissist, mental load, life admin. Parenting really gets my goat too. And of course, LTB !!!!!. 🤨

Fanny flutters 🤢

Cloth
Sups as an abbreviation for supper
Gloomy

This is so identical to my list I thought I’d posted it!

I’ll add tasty, mains and sides.

Hot choc instead of hot chocolate. People who use it are always smugly enjoying winter in some way. Just have a hot chocolate like the rest of us!

outfit / outfits - as in clothes. Just sounds weird to me

I hate 'kids'. They are my children. I am not a nanny goat.
Also many words relating to the loo. I think ,'loo' is about the only tolerable word. But big, lavish etc really make me squirm. When I was little we referred to 'the PK' but I've never heard anyone else use that.
Agree with 'to medal' .....its to win a medal. Or 'appeal' a case, surely it's to appeal for/against a case. I could go on (and on and on and on).....

Partner
Mom
Gusset
Testicles

When people add an extra vowel to the word mischievous…….why??

Authentic, as in "my most authentic self"... what other kind of self are you going to be??
I also wrote "tin toms" on a shopping list recently and still haven't forgiven myself 🤮

Vile. Very overused on here.
Cis. Nah, I don't need an extraneous word to qualify what I blatantly am thanks.

OMG that drives me mad too! I think people use it to try and sound posh or well spoken, but it has the opposite effect!

OMG yes! I think it's come over from the US. It annoys me too, although it probably shouldn't. I'm pretty sure 'gift' is not a verb - it's the thing you give - so to use the word 'gifting' just doesn't make sense to me. It only really started appearing over the last few years. I appreciate that language evolves though. I just find it hard to accept sometimes. When you get to my age (50) and something has always been said a certain way all your life and then it suddenly changes, it feels odd. Like people adding the extra consonant to the word mischievous. For the first 45 years of my life this word had three constanants : MIS-che-vus, and then suddenly I'm hearing Mis-CHI-vi-ous. I think maybe people started combing 'devious' and 'mischievous' by accident and then people started copying it? It grates on me everytime I hear it said incorrectly. I probably just need to get a grip...

Preggers
Hollibobs
Nom nom
Kids

Sensual, sensuous, sexual....hearing words like those makes me want to shrivel up and die of embarrassment. I could never say them myself. Just horrible, all the 's' sounds, not even the meaning of the words, just the sound of it. I really hate that ASMR thing as well.