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What words do you hate?

243 replies

jelly79 · 05/12/2022 20:21

I'll start

Fiancé
Genre
Moist

OP posts:
LINABE · 06/12/2022 22:49

Wanna
Gonna
My bad

IglesiasPiggl · 06/12/2022 22:50

People who say "sourced" when they mean "went to a shop and bought".

Rolypolyfishheads · 06/12/2022 23:00

Hubby/hubster 🤮
Wifey
Mrs
Sperm
Willy
Pube
Anal

forevercooking · 06/12/2022 23:22

lipstickwoman · 05/12/2022 21:04

Sarnie, cuppa, brekkie

I'll bare that in mind as I eat my sarnie for brekkie with a cuppa 😂

forevercooking · 06/12/2022 23:26

Pustule
Ointment
Moist

forevercooking · 06/12/2022 23:29

50but17inside · 05/12/2022 21:30

Oh but ‘Dessert’ gives me the cringe, the correct word is pudding. And don’t start me on ‘sweet’ 😬 or ‘Afters’.

Meal. Piping hot. Gland. Toilet. Tissue when people say tiss-yoo, a wine, belly, cuppa, I fell pregnant, serviette, lounge, settee, living room, evening suit

After reading this I feel like I need to know what area of the country (assuming the UK there 😂) you're from. I'm so intrigued

Frazzled1502 · 06/12/2022 23:29

Hun
hubby
Meal
the name Carl because I can’t say it!

Frazzled1502 · 06/12/2022 23:31

When ordering at a coffee shop and saying ‘can I get….’ instead of ‘could I have’. You’re not ‘getting’ anything!! They’re getting it for you.

forevercooking · 06/12/2022 23:34

DigitalTranny · 05/12/2022 23:08

Most of you are totally bonkers. You just put perfectly alright, random words in here.
What’s wrong with the words unfortunately, obviously, train station (!) was (?) meal etc…
And why the mass hatred for moist?
You people need to examine your lives…

Trains go to railway stations.

forevercooking · 06/12/2022 23:39

@snoodle1 think you mean syllable

forevercooking · 06/12/2022 23:43

RuthW · 06/12/2022 17:34

Gotten.

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

Same

snoodle1 · 07/12/2022 06:24

forevercooking · 06/12/2022 23:39

@snoodle1 think you mean syllable

Yes you’re right! I don’t think I can edit it so I’d better delete it :-(

snoodle1 · 07/12/2022 06:29

snoodle1 · 06/12/2022 10:51

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...

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As someone pointed out, I meant to say syllable and not consonants doh! I wish there was a way of editing posts after you send them…

CandidaAlbicans2 · 07/12/2022 10:11

Moist
Panties (usually said by slightly sleazy, sexed up older men)
Hun
Babe
Bae

Not a word but a phrase - "rainbow bridge". So fucking twee. No, the pet died, it's very sad, but it didn't cross over a fucking rainbow bridge

Original poster
jelly79 · 07/12/2022 20:25

I'm trying to think of when the word panties would ever be used if not by a sleazy man

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BiscuitLover3678 · 07/12/2022 20:27

This whole thread is so gross.

Holibobs
Slippy. Slippy is the worst. Say Slip-PER-ry.

I also really, really hate poorly. But nursery say it so now ds says it and know I say it too. Yuck.

BiscuitLover3678 · 07/12/2022 20:28

CandidaAlbicans2 · 07/12/2022 10:11

Moist
Panties (usually said by slightly sleazy, sexed up older men)
Hun
Babe
Bae

Not a word but a phrase - "rainbow bridge". So fucking twee. No, the pet died, it's very sad, but it didn't cross over a fucking rainbow bridge

I’m with you on the rainbow bridge. But of course I never say anything because normally it’s a very sad time!

BiscuitLover3678 · 07/12/2022 20:31

I also hate ‘passed. As someone who lost someone close to me I really really hate it. It’s like you’re too lazy to say passed away. Which in turn is like you’re too scared to talk about the fact that no, they actually died. Don’t try to make it sound softer than it is please.

Lelophants · 07/12/2022 20:33

Heaving tables
plodding

“with child” no you’re pregnant. It’s too much.

Lelophants · 07/12/2022 20:34

Clearly I’m a prude but in chic lit when they always arch their backs and groan in pleasure, even if the groaning is to do with food. No groaning please.

Inkanta · 07/12/2022 20:35

RIP

whattodo2019 · 07/12/2022 21:10

Hubby
Serviette
Lounge
Moist
Cunt
Settee

Original poster
jelly79 · 07/12/2022 21:56

I can't believe it's taken me this long to say this one (it's not a word though)

My other half

Even worse

My better half

🤮🙄

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DosCervezas · 08/12/2022 08:24

Cherub.

Now most often heard with sarcasm to describe children who might be quite difficult to manage.

howdyhey · 09/12/2022 09:43

I can't stand when people say they have 'plans'. As in, 'I can't make that day because I already have plans'. I don't know why it irritates me in that context but it does.