New words for old things

[MerryMarigold]

I've just been looking at swimwear and spotted the 'monokini' on quite a few sites, which is .... wait for it....a swimsuit.

I mean... why? Is it supposed to sound more glamorous?

Any other new, irritating words to describe something which has had a perfectly good name for a long time?

Very little makes me lol these days, but that did.

'Unboxing' which essentially means opening something you bought.

Some of these are brilliant!

Colourways

The absurd elevation of job titles which makes it impossible to discern the nature of very simple roles.

Sanitation manager - toilet cleaner
Executive PA - secretary
Horticultural landscaper - gardener
Loss prevention officer - security guard
Waste removal engineer - binman
Customer experience executive - call centre staff

Etc

🤣 totally absurd

Ive just googled monokini and it's either a swimsuit with the sides missing or bikini where the bra and pants have been tied together with a hoop

'Back in the day' - we used to say 'once' or 'back then' or actually specify the time period.
'pop of colour' - used to be 'splash of colour'
pre-order - order
'queer' - I have no idea what this actually means any longer, it used to mean 'strange', and then it was a rude term for gay, and then some gay men laid claim to it, and now it seems to mean having blue hair and extra piercings and expecting to be referred to as 'they' while having partner of the opposite sex.

I stay well away from queer. It's top of my list of mic drop moment words.

'Colleague' or 'workmate' has become 'work colleague. Infuriating.

Fairy cakes are now cupcakes.

Staycation. It's a holiday but this makes it sound like you're cheating out! And if you stay in Britain it's probably cost you three times more than Spain would have done!!

For me it’s ‘life admin.’ It seems to be a mix of things done once or twice a year such as booking dentist appointments and paying car insurance, as well as non-events like ‘booking airport parking.’ All packaged up under ‘life admin’ to make long work of a short job.

Are they the same? To me fairy cakes are the small ones with just a blob of icing (or nothing at all) that you buy in big packs from the supermarket or make at home, while cupcakes are bigger and more fancy with a lot of icing.

'Did a haul' for shopping makes my skin crawl

It’s “ take out” now apparently.

Body warmer - gilet

Pristine means untouched by human influence. Now it means nice and clean.
A travesty is a burlesque (grotesque, downmarket) parody but because of the phrase "a travesty of justice" everyone uses it to mean an injustice or something that rouses indignation.

"Reach out " now means to contact someone

People sitting exams are no longer supervised lor watched; they are invigilated.

'Tragic' has been extended to cover anything sad. I even heard it used to describe the death of the Queen Mother. She was in her 90s and died peacefully!

Hate the whole ‘journey’ thing.

Normalcy instead of normality

‘Actioning’ something. We used to just ‘do’ it.

‘Sex work’ boils my piss as well. It’s prostitution. Don’t sanitise it - it legitimises the abusive fuckers who pay for access to a woman’s body.

A red lip.
A well cut trouser.