To ask what words make your teeth itch?

[scruffybird]

Or sayings?

Mine are:
bolt hole
bespoke
Bless

Sticklebricks, the sight, sound of their name everything make my teeth ache, On a normal note, Babs. My child is not your Babs.

Slab - when referring to food.
Squat - in any way at all. Just an ugly sound
Rollercoaster ride - when talking about ups and downs of life.
It was a nightmare - for a small inconvenience.

Oh, and "awww" when typed. Just horrible because you imagine the sickly sweet face of the speaker.

Eurgh, that's revolting CBear6. Think I would have yanked my catheter out so I had something to throw at her!

Recently I was in a queue for the checkout in the supermarket when a lady squeezed my DD's chunky thighs and said "ooh look at those sexy legs!" I glared at her and said "She's 10 weeks old, she is NOT sexy"

Maybe an overreaction on my part but I really can't stand it.

The expression "makes my teeth itch" makes my teeth itch me ver uncomfortable.

YABU

I loathe the phrase "Make my teeth itch"

I say Awesome quite a lot. And Fab.
I also use the word 'like' far too much in the middle of sentences. It's embarrassing, I actually can't stop myself.

I agree with MillyR about 'decimate'. And I cannot stand it when people say 'nother'. As in 'That's a whole nother subject'.
Oh - and anyone who claims to be giving 110%.......

Americans calling any form of education "school"

I'm fecking 50......I can't get rear end onto those small chairs anymore FFS sake it's COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY

Reality losers...."oh I'm devahstayted" no you have been rejected, this is showbiz get used to it.

If a relative in Afghansitan is killed then you will be entitled to devastation.

even worse than later: laters

literally is driving me nuts at the moment. I remember teenagers (over- and slightly wrongly-) using it a lot in the eighties and for some reason it's had a massive surge lately. I hear it (over- and slightly wrongly-) used now by adults (Radio 4 presenters, dd's teachers) who should know better all the time.

Roll on

As in 'roll on 5:30' or 'roll on the weekend'

It expresses nothing, and it's always the same few people who use it. As if they have the most stressful lives in the world and are staggering heroically to the next interlude of leisure time.

Reem! it is like nails on a blackboard to me! irrespective of whether said online or in RL x

'Transgressive'. Very fashionable these days, and to me very annoying.

Also, 'upcycled'. WTF is that about?

There are lots more that will doubtless occur to me....

Oh, and 'properly' as in 'it's properly scary' or 'she's properly angry'. I loathe it. Young people seem to think it's acceptable usage. It isn't.

There, I knew I'd think of more

I hate with a passion modern onomatopoeia words - the sort that are found in text speak.

Whoop.

I hate:

Makes my teeth itch
Hollibobs (for holidays)
Random
Bubbly to describe a person
Epic/epic Fail
Ironic (used wrongly)
Adults typing in lolcat speak thinking it makes them sound quirky
Kooky
Balmy
Forever home
Bum
Horrific, devasting etc for minor things unless jokingly
Primarni

...the list could go on!

Yummy Mummy (just punchworthy)
'in theory' at the start of a sentence.
LOL, ROFL, LMAO etc
Hubster, the other/better half.
Again, the fashion item singular. A sales assistant once told me that the shoes I was trying on 'would look super with a natural shade tight'.

I love all these words, I love watching language evolve, we are actively taking part in the history of the English language. There are words that have been invented on this forum that will probably make their way into the OED within the next decade.

:o

Moreish - God I hate that word and refuse to use it. Wish there was another word that really meant the same thing though.

hubby

And 'back in the day' seems to have emerged from somewhere recently. I detest it.

YABU

Bossybritches on a similiar note I hate the overuse of the word 'grief' or 'mourn'.

As in 'the whole country is united in grief' when someone famous dies or ' the whole village is in mourning ' - ehh sorry no but you're not - unless of course the whole population has simultaneously lost a child/sibling/parent.

The phrase "teeth itch"

H pronounced 'haitch'.

People using the wrong tense of the verb- 'he done that', 'dinner's been ate' etc.

'No worries', can't bloody stop saying it and it sounds daft in England. Picked it up when living in Australia and still saying it three years after we returned home.

YY Madam52 that irritates me too, so unneccesary.

I also don't like the term 'mummy tiger'. If you are not of the tiger species then it's really just another parenting sop.