Words (and phrases) you dislike

[HowDairy]

We all know MN hates the word moist, but are there any others that you really dislike?

I don't like smear or seep.

Literally’ ‘actually’ and ‘at the end of yhe day’ as sentences starters…

'foodie'

You like food then.

The phrase I dislike the most is
I'm not being funny but..,... (Of course you are)
Closely followed by
No offense (if you are not being offensive why do you feel the need go say that?)
And then
X sleeps until ....... (Why not just say X days or X night's until X?)
I also dislike rainbow bridge and fur baby

Cool, sweet, sick

I hate gotten too. I think its more common in the USA but it just sounds wrong.
What's wrong with got? Gotten is unnecessary and it sounds horrible

I'm not British and the expression "picky bits" makes me queasy.

Nothing has EVER sounded less appealing.

‘I was SAT on the bench when xyz happened’

Did someone allocate you the bench or plonk you down? I doubt it.

To my horror, my DD, an MFL graduate who studied a linguistics option, uses this. We had great conversations about the pros and cons of the Oxford comma when she was in Y9 and yet she is unbothered by this grammatical atrocity.

It's up to you. I haven't said that.

”Gifted“ as in “I was gifted this” - no you weren’t, you were given it or you were given this as a gift. I’d rather listen to nails down a chalkboard than “gifted”. Another is “on accident” - it is “by accident” and goes back to the Latin ‘per accidens’ via France and ‘par accident’, so don’t bring your sloppy uneducated American speak to the UK!

Kiddo and tot. I loooooathe them

And hubs/hubby.

Period.
Unless you are American the term you are looking for is full stop.

Gotten
Gifted (to mean given)
Invite (to mean invitation)
Hard agree
First post nails it
Picky bits
Boils my piss
Babywearing / wearing the baby
On the boob / boobing

I like "I was sat" even though I know it's wrong.

"Use your words" so bloody patronising .
"Cannot get worked up about this"
"So" at the start of every sentence

I am sure there are more !

"Excited for"... this annoys the shit out of me too @igelkott2026

"Me either" - when people mean Neither.
"Based off of" - It's generally "based ON"
I'm sure there's many more that irritate me but this is all I've got so far

Oh Ida, what can we do? 😂

Create or Created.

I tend to think of it meaning something quite awe inspiring, wonderful, thunderbolt from the heavens and so forth. Sort of Biblical in grandeur.

Not, "I created this spreadsheet."

Curiously, I quite like the other more slangy use of it, "Ooh, stop creating such a fuss'' because that does really express the making something out of nothing element of the word.

I’m British and hate “picky bits” also. Reminds me of picking scabs/spots!

Per serving - when used on supplement bottles, it’s dose or dosage
Robust
like - when used after every few words
gifted
reaching out

"Fast forward to."

I realise that I must have quite a visual brain and I see in my mind's eye little people on 2.0 speed, talking like high pitched chipmunks and flailing their arms around.

Picky bits is very unpleasant but I like gobsmacked.

Grin and bear it. (Another dubious phrase.)

Oh definitely Hubby, Hun and Holibobs but I also have an aversion to the word ‘stump’

Yum, yummy and nom nom.