Stop with the daft made up words.

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Somebody judging you is not being judgy. They are not a judgy-pants. An actual real word exists for what you're trying to say, and it doesn't take much longer to type. JUDGEMENTAL, people. As in "I am judgemental towards people who use cringe-inducing phraseology."

Complainy Pants is a new one which I quite like. I don't have a problem with nom nom nom.

I had a facebook friend remark on her 'dinner with yummy hubby' and keep having to go back and stare at it lo disgust.

Okay one more: it is "whoa." Not "woah." Unless I have misunderstood and you are not trying to say "whoa" as in "whoa, that has caught my attention" or "whoa, my fine horse" but are in fact doing some kind of wohhh-ahhh meditation/chant thing.

I quite like dahling instead of darling. I'm off to the spa dahling

Guardian article

LiberalPedant, as long as you can hoik them properly I don't think the precise garment type matters.

I think when you try to stifle linguistic creativity, you are suppressing blah blah blah...

Boak is Northern Irish :)

I think Scottish too

I do get it that language develops and that slang can be creative/funny. I work with kids and their use of slang is almost poetic at times. Don't know why some specific examples make me irrationally irritated. It's the cutesy, babyish stuff that does it. Judgy-pants, om nom nom, yummy hubby, luffly, squee, hollybobs, however many sleeps till Christmas... AARRGH.

I also can't agree that " stood there, massive huge judgy pants hoiked to her armpits" is an example of good comic writing, but each to their own I suppose.

Sorry, but what's nom nom nom mean?

I've managed to work out most of the others, I think.

It is a hideous way of showing your appreciation of food. As in vacuous FB status update style "Just had choccie cake OM NOM NOM". As if you were a three year old whose friends were interested in what you just ate...

Hollibags...

My favourite non-word is crapola.

well this thread is judgey pants, I think those who can't see joy in this language are cuntoxing badgerfuckers.

I like a lot of made-up words.

I use the really shit ones in an ironical (see what I did there) way.
I'm 34, it's funny to talk like a 15 yo from time to time.
You can't beat a good old hash tag.

I laughed my arse off at 'vroominator', Peanut's mate sounds ace to me.

How has 'whevs' not come up yet? I say that one to DD just to piss her off because it indicates that I'm down wiv the kids (when I'm really not!).

And as for the 'sleeps til' thing - are you all saying that The Muppet Christmas Carol is wrong? It has a song in it 'One More Sleep Til Christmas'.

If The Muppet Christmas Carol is wrong, I don't wanna be right!

I've only ever seen "you sound entitled" on mumsnet..... Is that a real saying in real life?!

EntitleMENT

you have a sense of entitlement

nom nom is the one that bugs me. It should be yum yum yum.

That makes perfect sense but "You sound entitled" doesn't......

Judgy pants is metaphor, though. It conveys the idea of a state of being judgemental as something that you specifically don with a certain degree of self-awareness and introduces the idea that the degree of being judgemental is something that you can adjust according to circumstances. Obviously you can convey all of that without using the phrase, but it's a bit pompous and clunky (just in trying to outline the concepts for this post I found myself wondering whether "judgementalness" was a real word and whether I could bring myself to use it if it were).

And I like squee. It's onomatopoeia and also expresses a relatively complex concept in a recognised form of shorthand. One could type out "a feeling of giddy excitement and/or anticipation, generally related to an aspect of popular culture on the geek/nerd spectrum but tending towards the geekier end of that spectrum, such that the capacity for conventional logical thought is temporarily suppressed to a greater or lesser extent," of course one could. But one could also type "squee" (delineating the "greater or lesser" aspect by use of capitals, extraneous vowels, and/or exclamation marks) and use the time saved to have a nice cup of tea.