...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?

Sorry but I am more irritated by the people who get in such a state about trivial violations of language rules than by the original offences, to be honest. Languages gets changed and corrupted by life and exposure to different types of people. Deal with it.

Prophylactic

Preggers/ preggie
Brecky for breakfast
Nom nom nom
Tits
Choccy
Yummers

The thread is about words people find unpleasant quesadilla. Prophylactic isn't a language violation, for example.

It's a light-hearted thread innit. Somewhere for a bit of a vent and a laugh.

Blueshoes I am scrubbing myself in bleach after reading that Tony Blair quote!

bad smells that i hate the smell of

At work I constantly hear 'We need to have a conversation around that.' Aargh why can't we just talk about it?

And don't get me started on wow factor. Eurgh. Simon Cowell, Phil and Kirstie have a lot to answer for.

I hate it when my friends say/facebook/text
bubba
hubby
om nom nom
My wuvvly dawta (that one REALLY irks me)
Hun

It makes me want to scream but they are my friends and I feel all judgy.

Or at work
Thinking outside the box
blue-sky thinking
make it look sexy (what? you really want me to present something that looks like porn to the client?)
Can you action this (scream)

But moist is the most disgusting word in the English language.

I think all the words that make me cringe have been mentioned already...but it's grown adults using them in long combinations that really gives me The Rage:

"Sooooo excited to be off on my hollibobs wiv my gawguss mateeees!! Fankyou!!" Ugh.

But I do like parsnip

Oh yes... fankoo. That makes me want to cry.

Settee
Dessert
'Get in!' (Hate that expression with a passion)
'Really/very/totally' unique - a thing is either unique or it isn't. Stop with all the qualifying it people.
My husband hates the word 'eggy' (I'm not keen either) but I use it regularly now because his reaction is consistently priceless. He looks physically ill the moment he hears the word.

Oh and did I mention 'babe'? I once - forgive me, it was just the once - went on netmums and it's all the rage there.
No adult should call another adult babe, make or female. HORRID WORD.

My dad calls me and my sister babe, it's left over from when we were little. I love it personally

valiumredhead I feel really mean now.

I love gobsmacked. It's one of those words that enjoyable to say - like dingleberries.

Amazing grates on me, lately. Mostly because it's overused by gushing blue eyebrowed twenty-somethings who failed to learn any other superlatives (another fine word) at school.

ChairmanWow I know but a fair bit of it is also basically pedantry. Getting in a tizz about Gobsmacked for example. Sorry, I know some language violations are irritating but you see a level of neurosis about it sometimes which makes me think people have far too much time on their hands.

Lady-don't be daft! I find these threads fascinating as it shows how words can mean such different things to different people. Actually tbh if anyone else but dad called me babe if think they were bonkers

Agree with lots of these - have hated gobsmacked for years. And all the usual suspects - hun, hubby, bubba. Hate hate hate cuppa, biccie and pics for pictures. Also I give you.....foodstuffs.

This thread has made me realise how much I hate the word panties.

Sheath is awful.
Pork, I hate. Even worse when I heard the term "pork sword" the other day, I nearly fainted.

I love the word ricochet. I can say it over and over.

quesadilla - if you think all this is a waste of time why waste your own time making killjoy comments?

Agree about panties and sheath, they just sound obscene. Also pouch, that actually makes me feel ill.

Ugly words...
Discharge
Flange
Gland
Sluice
Turd
Tumour
Smegma

I hate 'pork sword' too. Yuck.

'Spam truncheon', on the other hand...

Oh, and my particular facebook nemesis: 'LOLZ'. 'LOLZ' after every sentence.

'I love my cat, LOLZ' 'Got my hair cut, LOLZ'

bicycle shops that describe secondhand bikes as 'soiled'.

I hate most of these words. I therefore conclude I am an intolerant wotsit
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