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Irritating words!

123 replies

queenc81 · 18/12/2016 21:20

Please tell me I'm not alone, and other people can't have certain words used around them?

Oh has just used the worst one, (moist) Angry even writing that makes me shudder. It knocks me sick when I hear that word.

Oh thinks I'm going crazy and I'm trying to prove I'm not with this thread. I also can't have clocks in the house, the ticking makes me want to rip my ears off. Dickhead husband calls me Captain Hook Hmm

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WeeM · 19/12/2016 00:15

Ye olde this that or other
People who call their partner babe

DontTouchTheMoustache · 19/12/2016 00:15

Why do people hate the word 'moist' so much? I have no feelings towards it, what is the big deal? Is it how it sounds or what it means? Confused

TheCompanyOfCats · 19/12/2016 00:22

I'm intrigued too Moustache, it always features on 'Most Hated' lists but why?

Any of you moist-haters care to deconstruct it for us?

DontTouchTheMoustache · 19/12/2016 00:28

I would very much like to be enlightened. I get why people don't like hubby because I have a family member who puts at least 4 posts a day up about her amazing "hubby" and I mostly want to throttle her, so the word gives me chills.

Spartak · 19/12/2016 00:31

Holibobs and amazeballs. Especially be anyone over the age of 12.

Ohdearducks · 19/12/2016 00:32

Nom nom nom
Flavourful is rage inducing and
Smelly

Daisyfrumps · 19/12/2016 00:33

Hubby
Wifey
Guffed
Illegitimate

Daisyfrumps · 19/12/2016 00:38

'Moist' however, is most amusing and must be said in a high pitched shrieking voice with accusatory upwards inflection at the end for full effect, e.g.

MOIIIST?!

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 19/12/2016 00:45

Preeeemark for Primark

AmIBeingUnseasonal · 19/12/2016 01:09

Holibobs, Crimbo, hubby,
lowkey (the way it is used now, ie "I lowkey want eyebrows like these") fleek, reem, on point
meal, toms for tomatoes, pots for potatoes, pud, choc,biccies, pop, (most food shortenings!)
Ex mil used to say "boc boc" for bottle and "napnap" for nappy Angry

Annie592 · 19/12/2016 06:26

Preggers. Arghhh!!

What's wrong with portion?!

user1477282676 · 19/12/2016 06:27

Meal.

Worst when used as "Enjoy your meal"

Fuck off.

user1477282676 · 19/12/2016 06:29

Oh yes! "Smellies" when used as a description for bath type items...shampoo or whatever!

drinkingchanelno5 · 19/12/2016 07:08

Mooch, bits, tat, entitled.

queenc81 · 19/12/2016 07:46

Don't touch the moustache.

I've no idea why it bothers me so much. Hate hearing it said and reading it.

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queenc81 · 19/12/2016 07:48

Nomoreloser gusset is another one of mine.

Might start a petition to get all these words banned Grin

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CaoNiMerrilyOnHigh · 19/12/2016 08:04

See, I don't mind "moist" myself. It reminds me of dew on moss, fresh spring mornings, etc.

A phrase I can't stand is "for a quiet life". It's so... I don't even know. Passive? Lazy? I just picture some chump lying on a sofa while the world carries on around him/her.

anyname123 · 19/12/2016 08:11

Tummy! I hate it. And I especially hate "tummy time".
Nom nom / noms makes we want to vomit.
Meal as in"go out for a meal", which which bloody meal, surely you know?

LeonardoAcropolis · 19/12/2016 08:15

Gland
Continuum

The name of the shop "Mulit York". Yuck.

honeylulu · 19/12/2016 08:25

Gusset, definitely. Horrid word.
BTW I do say hubby. My dad had an employee who used to say it when talking about her other half - never mentioned him by name, it was always "hubby says this.." etc. My parents thought this very naff and used to snigger about it and it became an adopted word in our house, used ironically of course.
It has occurred to me just now that people might think I use it non-ironically.Blush

honeylulu · 19/12/2016 08:27

I also hate "nibbles" and "afters" used in place of "pudding".

RoseGoldHippie · 19/12/2016 08:28

Tepid Sad

FizzBombBathTime · 19/12/2016 08:32

Perk
Perky

When people say these on here it makes me want to cut my ears off

DrinkReprehensibly · 19/12/2016 08:33

YY to panties for me and 'hun' - goes through me. My ExH used to use the word panties when getting to talk dirty and it was a total turn off.

Supper and tooth pronounced "tuth" are horrible, particularly in tuthpaste and tuthbrush. I'm from the north west and I had no idea this was a thing until I moved south. But, having said that, it doesn't seem universally common so I don't know if it is actually a southern thing or just an eccentricity of certain families.

NavyandWhite · 19/12/2016 08:33

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