Words you don't like

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With thanks to @DebbieTheCat for the inspiration, how about a list of the words you really can't be doing with?

Top of my list would be "problematic" - the whole beige, head-tilted, be kind-ness of it just annoys me!

Treat and spoil when adults are talking about themselves: “I’m going to treat myself” or “I’d just like him to spoil me”.

Vom inducing.

Picky dinner 🤮
Puggled 🤮

I've posted these on another thread but "toasty", "buttery", "Baltic" because they feel lazy. I also dislike abbreviations which are made from a pronunciation which doesn't exist, for instance "Pots" for potatoes and "Toms" for tomatoes, when the stress is not on the first syllable, we don't call them TOMatoes.

The word Panties gives me the ick

The Mumsnet chocs. Agree with pud too. See also veggies and roasties.

All sound like they are trying very hard to make my food jolly.

Babe !😩

Bite, as in a bite to eat. Going out for a bite, aaargh, shush!

Referring to vegetables as sides, as if they weren’t really part of the meal.

That means 'carrot' in Welsh.

I work with someone who says babe ALL the time. Everyone is babe. I accidentally called my DH babe (must have picked it up by osmosis) and he looked at me like I had two heads 😭

Yorkies for Yorkshire puddings

I work with someone who's hubby (her words) and daddy ( again her words, yes she in her 40's)both caller her Babe, and she uses it back to Hubby, its so cringe worthy I hate it when she is on the phone to them, really gets my heckles up.

Mansplaining, manspreading or any other nasty man hating words invented by sour women.

Panties
Front bottom
Tummy
Grown-ups
Sleeps - when used in place of days or nights
Pre-prepared and other such redundancies

'Teddy' when it isn't a bear, it's something like a rabbit or a monkey.

Gobsmacked. (So stupid.)
Obsessed. (No, you're not. You mean you're fond of.)

Creamy
Woozy
Methinks (or, even worse, when people write it as "me thinks")
Mani/pedi
Bap (I always picture one of those really dry ones with too much flour on top)
Meal
Cornish (nothing against lovely Cornwall or its inhabitants, just dislike how the word Cornish sounds!)

I'm sure I'll think of more 😂

I can't stand "crimbo" buy don't mind "crimble"

I have a friend that said,
"happy hollibobs" to me.... That word gives me the rage!

I've thought of another - "gifted" instead of "gave"

Normalcy
Curated
Artisan
Lush

That's yo for with regional accents, rather than being a word to dislike.

Yes, I thought "yous" was an informal plural of "you" in some regional dialects.

'Words I was taught were c--n - toilet, serviette, settee, tea for dinner, dinner for lunch - I think it's bollocks but it still grates (I blame my mum)'

Regional dialects aren't 'bollocks' as this poster so delicately puts it.

I thought the poster meant it was bollocks to suggest that those words were "common"