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Words you cannot bear to read or speak or hear

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squinker45 · 03/01/2024 11:03

I cannot bear to read or speak or hear some food related words. It is difficult for me to write them as I feel so ick about them but here goes:

Tasty
Delicious
Sweet treats (or just treats)
Snack
Yum
Nom
That slurpy face emoji (I refuse to put it here)

Uuuuuuurgh I feel ill now

What is wrong with me? Anyone else or am I a massive weirdo?

OP posts:
emmetgirl · 03/01/2024 12:48

I cannot bear to read or speak or hear some food related words. It is difficult for me to write them as I feel so ick about them but here goes:

Tasty
Delicious
Sweet treats (or just treats)
Snack
Yum
Nom
That slurpy face emoji (I refuse to put it here)

YES! All of those! I'm glad it's not just me.

SunnieShine · 03/01/2024 12:51

"Cos" instead of because - silly and lisping.

"Tinkly laugh" makes me want to slap the TLer round the chops.

maddiemookins16mum · 03/01/2024 12:51

Baby daddy

JamSandle · 03/01/2024 12:51

Breath

RedDiamond · 03/01/2024 12:52

Hun

My bad

Wendysfriend · 03/01/2024 12:54

Crusty bread
Hot chocolate
Crudités
Picky bits
Beige food
Naked potatoes
Niace
Yum yum
Snuggles
Read a book

Redwineandcake · 03/01/2024 12:54

Authentic self
Kiddos

Carouselfish · 03/01/2024 12:57

Gobsmacked. It is just the most moronic way of saying shocked. Someone smacked me in me gob they did!

Lucanus · 03/01/2024 12:58

MrsSkylerWhite · 03/01/2024 11:17

Decimated. Do so many really not underatand what it means?

In current usage, the figurative meaning is standard. It means largely destroyed, not reduced by precisely 10% (a circumstance we don't really need a word for anyway). So it is you who doesn't understand what the word means, not everyone else.

Winnipeggy · 03/01/2024 13:00

Cluster

HelpMeGetThrough · 03/01/2024 13:02

Winnipeggy · 03/01/2024 13:00

Cluster

I have to say that in my job almost every day.

Terrified - Every bugger is terrified these days, never slightly nervous.

willWillSmithsmith · 03/01/2024 13:03

squinker45 · 03/01/2024 12:26

@ElevenSeven I also hate 'fry it off' and have also heard 'cook it off'

Fry it or cook it FFS

I'll add 'pan-fried' on menus because what else are you going to fry it in?

I hate pan-fried as well and I doubt any restaurant is going to say ‘air fried’.

Fraaahnces · 03/01/2024 13:04

I think it’s pretty telling what I do for a living, but “sputum” and “phlegm” make me gag whether spoken aloud or seen in person.
I also have the icks about the word “Whatnot” being used instead of etcetera or whatever. “He had packed his toothpaste, toothbrush, hairbrush and whatnot.”; “She flippantly described his appearance as “grey suit, grey tie, navy shoes, brown man bag and whatnot”.

Couchant · 03/01/2024 13:05

maddiemookins16mum · 03/01/2024 12:51

Baby daddy

DH was once sitting in on a court case about fraud where a cut-glass QC had to explain to an extremely posh elderly judge what a ‘baby daddy’ was. The jury was trying not to laugh.

idontlikealdi · 03/01/2024 13:08

We're pregnant
Nice
'Of' an evening / morning - I know its regional but it irrationally annoys me

SerafinasGoose · 03/01/2024 13:10

Gender.

penjil · 03/01/2024 13:10

Stresa22 · 03/01/2024 11:33

Milk coma. 🤢🤢

A what now????

ColourMeBlue · 03/01/2024 13:11

Hubby-as it's usually said by people NOT married.
Discuss-not the word itself,but when people put a "thought provoking statement" up on Facebook and end it with the word Discuss.Unless you a lecturer in a University class,you do not need to be telling me "discuss" anything

InstrumentsofTorture · 03/01/2024 13:12

Belly
Bum
Meal
Blah blah blah

I also hate it when people say at the beginning of posts things like "buckle up/strap yourselves in/pull up a chair/get yourself a hot drink" etc.

And "mortified" - so often it's used incorrectly. Makes me twitch.

I am guilty of "little man" though he is 30 now so perhaps I can forgive myself!

ColourMeBlue · 03/01/2024 13:14

Migrating-because everyone I know seems to be MIGRATING from Child Tax Credits to Universal Credits.You are not migrating anywhere.You are changing over on a benefits system.

marshmallowfinder · 03/01/2024 13:14

Fucking meal/mealy and therefore the likewise sounding Amelia and Emilia.

Mole.

SmugglersHaunt · 03/01/2024 13:15

When people repost something on social media and just write:

This.

Before or after it

GiveMyHeadPeaceffs · 03/01/2024 13:16

Kiddies...the word grates on me in any context.

Fuming. MN seems quite fond of people "fuming" over sod all.

katseyes7 · 03/01/2024 13:17

Cuddle. Ruined forever for me. My ex husband used to use it to refer to having sex. "Are we having a cuddle tonight?" It actually makes me feel nauseous.
Little man.
Puke.
Scrotum.
Doggo.

penjil · 03/01/2024 13:17

WhatsTheUseOfWorrying · 03/01/2024 11:51

‘Curate’. Thank fuck that’s on the way out.

Also ‘narrative’ for any poxy email or memo: “What’s your narrative?” 🙄

Christ, that's awful. I've never heard that one, fortunately.

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