...to think this is the ugliest word in the English language?

[DarceyBissell]

...gobsmacked.
I have heard even BBC types say it, politicians even.
Every time I hear it I want to puncture my own eardrums. Ugly, crass, lazy, crude.
Also hate nouns as verbs - mothballed, torched etc.
Think I am too sensitive for this world.
Any other words/phrases make you see red?

"When can I have sight of that"

Instead of...

"When can I see that"

Nope. I save my ire for trafficked children and abused people. Not for letters strung together into sayings.

agree gobsmacked horrible
incentivised is pretty awful
Hate hearing Issues all the time - are Problems out of fashion?

'Gusset' is the ugliest word in the English language - FACT

I dont understand how gobsmackes is crude

I love the fact that, in English, any noun can be verbed.

Vagina isn't the loveliest word.

I'll see your 'gusset' worra and raise you runny, crevice and moist.

Pud for pudding
biccie for biscuit
choccy for chocolate
butty for sandwich
piccie for picture...

... you get the idea

As soon as I saw your thread title I thought "whatever it is, it's not as horrid as Gobsmacked!" haha. It's just foul.

Precious - seems to be certain people's favorite word at the moment.
I am really starting to hate it

Gobsmacked is HORRIBLE! There's a DJ who refers to sidings as 'gobsmackers'. I have to switch him off.

Sidings???

Some songs, I meant.

Tee - am gobsmacked by your po-faced (that's another one) response.

I'll see your 'gusset' worra and raise you runny, crevice and moist

I'm sorry, I should really have turned my web cam off

I love gobsmacked!

I hate the word vulgar. Or rather, I rarely hear it used in a context that doesn't make me

Early - not even Chip Butty?

early butty is not the shortened version of sandwich, but comes from "buttered bread" which was all us northerners could afford in the 19th Century!
I hate the phrase "ticks all the boxes" and the words membrane and mucus. Up their with moist.

worra

Leak is not a nice word either. Nor is flange, appendage or canal.

Moist is indeed a grim word .

However spongy and elbow are lovely words .

Early you and I should run away together. We are clearly made for one another. I have started whole threads devoted to my hatred of words like that. (although I do admit to using the phrase 'chip butty' on MN earlier today, but that is the only exception to my rule. Other than that the word butty is taboo for me.)

I get creeped out by people calling Yorkshire Puddings 'Yorkshires' and roast potatoes 'roasts' or 'roasties.' It actually makes me recoil and feel a bit ill.

And don't get me started on people who have a cuppa or make a brew.

Scrotum

...people who say 'I'm loving...'(whatever it is).
Something that's a 'must-have.'

Scrotum is grim. I'd be miffed if I were male. I think female bits are more melodious.

Moreish

"Hmmm they're so moreish"

Hate it.