Words and phrases that make your teeth itch

[Sfuandtired]

I’ll start

hollibobs
smashed it
The gift that keeps on giving
Don’t mind if I do

All of those give me irrational rage! 😆

and (hand) crafted

'Belt and braces'

Describing something as 'smelly'

'ain't'

Pronouncing 'aware of' as 'aware-wov'

I loathe 'if you know, you know' So patronising.

On marketplace 'needs a clean'. Well, you're selling it- give it a clean first!

Absolutely anything to do with food.

Delicious
Mmmmm
Nom nom
Scrumptious
Get in my belly
Scrummy
Succulent

Just shut the fuck up and eat your food there's no need to have a wank over it.

Nothing "makes my teeth itch", but I find the phrase " makes my teeth itch" really irritating.

Talking about a 'space' at work, when you dont mean a physical space. Not even sure what it does mean really. Moving into whatever space = just doing something different?

I think it's often used defensively on Mumsnet. If someone says (e.g.) 'I've never seen anyone try to grope a woman on the bus' dozens of people will pile on with variations of 'that doesn't mean it never happens'.

Deep dive

Going forward

Furbabies

‘Lives rent free in my head’.

Curated - what’s wrong with made?!
And I cannot stand “ He/She turned around to me & said”! My friend’s Dad had a brilliant reply to that “ What are they a fuckin’ ballet dancer?”! 🤣

Toxic masculinity
Misogyny (sick to the back teeth of this one)
'Super' - super quick, super fun 😫
Y'all - very American and very stupid
Pinky - when used to refer to a little finger

Narcissist and gas lighting. These are two phrases that came along with the people who like to spot red flags. Most of these people have no clue what those words mean and label every person they dislike as a gas lighting narcissist. Sometimes they're not gas lighting or a narcissist, sometimes they're just an ignorant prick.

Completely irrational, but... adults using any of the following words to other adults:

Poorly
Greedy
Cuddle

Fine if you are a small child or you're talking to a small child, but between adults they make me cringe. It reminds me of couples who talk to one another in baby voices... 🤮

Actually, scratch that – even 'greedy' used to a child indicates some weird Roald Dahl-esque values system that I can't hear without feeling the speaker hasn't emotionally matured past the age of 8.

Belly, belly ache, belly button 🤮🤮

I use tummy. The word belly makes me wince.

Tummy makes me wince!

'Taking the piss', but especially variations of it like "extracting the urine". It's such a dreadful phrase, why would you spend time coming up with multiple ways to use it?!?

Taking the piss is an ancient phrase.

Pop of colour

Yep that word as if everything in ones home needs to be aesthetic! That and bloody "wholesome" - just stupid

Ooft, me too. Add to the other list of 'words not to be used past the age of 8'

Unalive

Weaponised incompetence

which to be fair I have only heard on here, and only in the last few days
but it annoys me. Probably irrationally.

ick and grim I don't like either

Reached out - instead of contacted.
There was a poster last week who used it over a dozen times in her OP.

Smashed it - I can't even express how ghastly this one is.

Colleague instead of member of staff is something that is almost ubiquitous in retail outlets now. Colleague? Does he work here? He was working at ABCXYZ with me yesterday.

I agree with others about ‘poorly’ and ‘tummy’. Both utterly mimsy.