...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?

I also hate 'I'm good' in response to 'How are you?'

It's the 'gob' part that jars with me. Also calling a woman 'gobby'. Yeuk.

I also hate " off of" as in he's off of the TV

Mummy milk. And you all got in before me but moist. And the word smug looks smug. >irrational

Multilingual OH mangles his languages and comes up with some very ugly hybrids - podulate being one describing the act of using an i-pod!

'Frock' - that's another one.

"What a lovely frock"

Oh do frock off...

"The wow factor" - I absolutely hate that expression! It is used far too frequently and I HATE it - it gives me the rage!

'Parenting' for bringing up children.

Gut rot. My friends used to say this when I was a teenager and even then it made my skin crawl. I have the same reaction to it as you do to gobsmacked - it's so CRASS.

Moist is the worst.

Any adult using the word 'yummy' makes me cringe.

Anyone at all using 'scrummy' is BU.

Also hate the word 'snack'. Don't know why though.

Genitalia. DH uses this word and it makes me rage.

Words that I just violently dislike, without them necessarily being ugly or crass are:

gifted (as in "she was gifted a large box of chocolates")
nom nom nom
'tis and 'twas, methinks, etc.
superb and stunning - just sound so Alan Partridge to me

Oh yes, and "having a kip"

Proper. DD likes to pop this into almost every bloody sentence lately.
"I was proper cross"
"I was proper late"
WTF?

How are you with pudenda Sandy

And boak. And "I just threw up in my mouth".
And "naughty" to describe eating a cake or a biscuit.

God, I could be here all night. I'm such a miserable old fart.

Chunk/chunks. Makes me feel ill.

Another vote for 'snack'. And my husband uses it all thetime in a really whiney way. "I just need a snack" (he is American). A smack more like.

"boak" makes me, well, boak...

"stabby" makes me, well, stabby"...

Vulva is pretty awful. Penis, on the other hand, is quite a nice word.

'Comfort zone' is another one. Oh, and any wacky speak, like 'totes amazeballs' or 'holibobs'. Seriously love, you sound like a cock.

I'm afraid I'm guilty of using 'stabby' (see upthread) but I can totally see why it would irritate.

Phlegm.

Hiya, y'alrigh(t)?

Hubby