What words do you hate?

[jelly79]

I'll start

Fiancé
Genre
Moist

I so agree with you, was just about to put this in a comment.....can I add we have an older lady at work who says it all the time, it just sounds ridiculous. 😫

Nodding in agreement with so many. Poorly, touch base, nom, pupper, doggo, hun, cis, etc.

A seasonal one that I'd never heard of before until I moved here - FUDDLE. I hate the word with a passion. Makes me think of lots of people huddling in and encroaching on my personal space, and lots of fuss and faff around the setting out of the food and all the other noisy social stuff. It's a no from me as it sounds like hell for us neurodiverse people 😨

Stunning

Labia

Passed - as in he passed away.

I really dislike the use of euphemisms surrounding death. When I hear someone say "He's passed" I think "passed what -his driving test ? " The person has died, it's very sad, but lets be clear, they died.

Scandi

‘The trainer’ - someone on a Balenciaga thread was talking about owning the something trainer. That’s annoying, but what really got me was that they were talking about throwing ‘it’ out!

‘Product’ in the sense of ‘put a small amount of product in your hand’. Why not gel, mousse, whatever the stuff is?

I had many others a few years ago, but the good thing about loathesome words is that trends change so fast now that they disappear quickly too. Twee swearing (twat badger, etc) and the gruesome phrase ‘I love the bones of him’ used to be rife on here, but I don’t see them much any more.

Gifted
Gift
Teen
Cute
Lack of adverbs and poor grammar drive me nuts.

‘nursing’ instead of ‘breastfeeding’. Just tell it like it is.

Oh God yes. Someone from customer service said this to me as an apology. 🤮

I work with someone who graduated in English from an RG university seven years ago. He is the master of the malapropism, regularly mis-spells words, thinks 'infer' is a posh version of 'imply', and thinks nothing of writing 'Have you seen John and I's comments?'.

Literally
Big
Super

because they are overused.

The word 'like'

When people always refer to like in a conversation and overall use it. Small minded.

Just remembered "meet cute"

That needs to stop immediately

Panties definitely the top contender.

Also hate the word 'forever' used as an adjective: 'forever home' 'forever friend' etc

Yuk, bum, bottom, hubby, yummy, yum, tummy.

Phrase used in The Holiday. Just watched it.

Micturition
Veg

Myself, yourself when used incorrectly: ‘My partner and myself’. And ‘yourself?’

That makes me go full on Basil Fawlty.

'Opportunity' is really grating at the moment. It's everywhere.
Last year it was ' if that makes sense '. Please, no!

Also despise...

Here's the thing

Titillating - just gives me the 🤮….. conversely as I was walking earlier (and looking at the view) I was thinking what fab words vertiginous and undulating are 🙈😂

I hate the word 'produce' as in the noun for fruit and vegetables. Oh, and I also hate 'veg,' incidentally.

'Field to fork' or 'farm to fork' makes me want to kill everyone in sight. No reason, I just hate the sound of it.

Legumes….. fuck off
scoff

I don't like it either I get people are trying to be thoughtful but they died they didn't pass away.

I had to Google Legumes very recently 😅

What a ridiculous word just say lentils.