Words and phrases you only hear on Mumsnet

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"Hacked off"

"Tear him a new one"

I've never heard one person in real life use either of those and to be honest, I'm glad! They're the ugliest phrases ever!

Tear him a new one is particularly disgusting.

AIBU to ask you to share yours? Either things you don't hear in real life or things you hate but only encounter here?

Considering you're a new user. you don't like MN much, do you?

I have only ever come across "batshit" on MN, but I rather like it actually

rawsienna Have you never heard anyone say "I couldn't care less"?

whyohwhy that's the thing, the proper phrase is 'I couldn't care less' as in, I care so little, that it's impossible to go any lower.

I don't know why 'I could care less' became popular. That implies you still care a bit.

Oh er, and yes I hear it all the time.

Grizzling. Hate the word.

I've never heard flange used to refer to vagina but it always pops up on threads for words people dislike. In real life I've only ever heard it being used in the correct context (flattened out part of something to help it attach to something else)

You don't hear grizzling in RL? Are you in the UK?

A lot of these I do hear in RL (inc 'hacked off' and 'grim').

The one on here I just can't stand is 'judgy'. Like a really infantile version of judgemental. Is it really so hard to put the word in full? I don't know why it's used so often on here and I have NEVER heard that one IRL. It would sound ridiculous.

Rawsienna - I'm from Scotland and many of us would use the word arse in person. It's actually probably a bit too frequent in my everyday vocabulary - whoops!!

I struggle with all the shortened words, I really struggled to read a thread the other day as almost every second word had been shortened to two or three letters. Need to revise the MN (see what I did there? heh heh) secret code

You don't hear grizzling in RL? Are you in the UK?

I don't think I've ever heard of it. I'm a Londoner.

'Fuming' is another one. In so many threads the OP is 'fuming'. In real life people just say they were angry or perhaps furious.

I mean I have heard OF it but I haven't heard it used.

Nope-not heard grizzling and lived wales, Scotland and northern England! Awful word!

Grizzling and fuming are everyday words to me.

All the false sympathy and just to get a few more details out of some poor cow who's spilled her life's beans all over the web.

any update hippo I've been thinking about you seeing as how there's no reality tv at the mo

Grizzling? Isn't that just the crying that isn't quite crying noise that babies and toddlers make? My dad used to use it a lot. Is it s Derbyshire thing?

My mum used to say it a lot...she was from London.

Yes, that's it, what babies do when they're grumpy but not fully crying.

Blimey, I use a fair few of the words and phrases above in real life and always have I think - including hacked off, entitled, stabby, grabby, odd, vile, arses, not my circus not my monkeys plus one I definitely got from MN which would be thundercunt.

However totally agree with 'vulva' - never heard anyone use it ever (not that I have a huge amount of conversations about genitals in general, might be that I suppose!).

Also 'hub' or 'hubby' outside if the context of a broadband router. Boak. (yep boak, use that too - totally standard word - perhaps regional differences would go a long way to explaining the general confusion!?)

My mum used grizzling. South London

"Screamed in (insert person) face"

Do people really scream in other people's faces?

You never see "shouted" "yelled" "raised voice" it's always screamed.

Upduffed.

Also... I think you should definitely cancel the cheque.

FWIW... when I worked in advertising for women's mags Sanpro was a common term. The ads would only be allowed on certain positions in the magazines, usually towards the back..

Grizzled/ grizzling/hacked off/ fuming/ livid -all every day words to me ( 20+ years in London and 10 in East Midlands)