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What words do you hate?

243 replies

jelly79 · 05/12/2022 20:21

I'll start

Fiancé
Genre
Moist

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Mrsjayy · 06/12/2022 14:43

Or pulses people know what they are

IToldYouAmillionTimesAlready · 06/12/2022 14:45

Hubby
Furbaby
Cuppa
Panties
Tummy
Belly
Poorly
Willy

lookeelikee · 06/12/2022 14:46

Hate

Hangupsrus · 06/12/2022 15:02

Tuppence

eveoha · 06/12/2022 15:09

I hate ‘the ‘comedienne’ Dawn French’ an oxymoron if ever there was one ☝️ ☘️👍🏿

ChocolateBauble · 06/12/2022 15:12

Crucial

game changer

awesome

Tuichi · 06/12/2022 15:30

FearofQueefing · 06/12/2022 13:53

Panties definitely the top contender.

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

I’m ok with forever home in the context of an animal rehoming ad. It grates when people use it in an otherwise sober description. ‘We’re looking for four bedrooms, a big garden and off-road parking because this will be our forever home.’ Wrong register.

jelly79 · 06/12/2022 16:55

Glasto for Glastonbury

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stuntbubbles · 06/12/2022 17:02

Lush.

And one I remembered last night in an idle googling of symptoms: water infection for UTI. I’d never heard it before my first pregnancy when someone put the wind up me suggesting I had a water infection, I thought they meant amniotic fluid! Just say bladder infection, urine infection, UTI! Wee isn’t water!

Nancienoo · 06/12/2022 17:16

Bigslippers · 05/12/2022 20:32

Discharge
Tummy
Bottom
Flange
tissue as in tiss ew and not tish ew

Flange 😂

LadyHester · 06/12/2022 17:25

Curdled

electricmoccasins · 06/12/2022 17:26

Blancmange

RuthW · 06/12/2022 17:34

Gotten.

Hate it and stop reading a post if it's in it.

ohyouknowwhatshername · 06/12/2022 18:34

Lube 🤑

Claricestarling1 · 06/12/2022 19:31

Phlegm
spittle
glob
they all make me gag 🤢

popsoda · 06/12/2022 19:42

Bitch
Stupid
Idiot

MarmiteyCrumpets · 06/12/2022 20:08

Slacks

Piss

Marg

Iconic

Utilise

Bunda · 06/12/2022 20:32

Wow, when I saw the first person who didn't like the word 'meal' I thought, 'funny that'... then so many more followed! I truly did not expect so many more to follow.

I hate when people say 'in depthly'.

Izadrennan · 06/12/2022 20:36

Bubbas
Kiddos
Hun
Babes
Famalam

ohyouknowwhatshername · 06/12/2022 20:41

Feedback

Tit

LadyHester · 06/12/2022 20:53

What’s wrong with meal?
Or micturition?
What about expectoration?

Suture
Pantyhose
Couch

Whiskeypowers · 06/12/2022 20:58

Mrsjayy · 06/12/2022 14:42

I had to Google Legumes very recently 😅

What a ridiculous word just say lentils.

Agreed
Just so pretentious when they are a cheap dried pulse!

Whiskeypowers · 06/12/2022 21:01

I’ve thought of another

“curated” used in a fashion or similar vein.
no love you pulled a few bits of tat together there’s nothing historical about any of it

CongaLine · 06/12/2022 21:17

"Side hustle" - no, it's a part-time job.

"Dropped" when used to mean "released" eg "He's just dropped a new video".

"Super" and "ridiculously" used in place of "very".

"Property" when used in the singular. "We bought a property". Just say house/flat or whatever it is!

Jennywren1975 · 06/12/2022 21:50

Nosh. A family member says, going for a nosh up and it gives me the rage.
Cushdy
Bish, bash bosch