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AIBU to hate this word

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mummymummums · 03/06/2017 22:30

Blessed, as in, feeling blessed. Just gets my goat. Not sure why, think
I find it smug.
What words get on your tits nerves?

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HeteronormativeHaybales · 04/06/2017 22:10

Someone, I think on here, pointed out how silly 'pan fried' is and now I'm self-conscious using it, but it is actually semantically different from 'fried'. It's sea bass or courgettes in olive oil, not sausages and eggs in lard.

Another one who really dislikes 'PJs'. But really don't get the 'cuppa' hate. I think it's an inventive formation. On a related theme, I hate 'coffees' as in 'I'll get the coffees', and 'main' for main course, somehow even worse in the plural.

Want2beme · 04/06/2017 22:14

Meal. It sounds so pretentious and sanctimonious to me - don't know why. I hate it.

MargotFenring · 04/06/2017 22:19

I have a relative who writes the word 'luverly' and 'luv' in almost everything she posts of FB. It makes my eyes burn with rage.

Another relative also never refers to him self as 'I' but as 'myself'. For example he will always say 'John and myself went to the cinema'. That one annoys the fuck out of me.

I also hate:

Lush
Nom
Yummy (I really hate that word - for no reason I can discern but I hate it)

Oh yes and "Mmmmm" noises when someone is listening to you. I find it so distracting!

Miserable bastard that I am.

OfaFrenchmind2 · 04/06/2017 22:19

I hate "tiny". I prefer wooden words.

Giraffey1 · 04/06/2017 22:21

Hun
Hubby
Hubbicle

rockcake · 04/06/2017 22:23

I also hate meal Grin it sounds so mealy as in mealy-mouthed, meaning shit-eating (sort of)

Hate the word shit now I think of it

WhatsGoingOnEh · 04/06/2017 22:30

"Reaching out." Just say "contacting", you twat.

"A big ask." It's just twatty. Thankfully I've now killed most of the people who were saying it.

"Are you on glue?" HOW did this get to be so popular on MN?! It's like the crappest put-down you heard at school. Is it being used ironically now? Just like "did you mean to be so rude?" is held up on MN as the pinnacle of verbal wit when dealing with twats. But it's just crap.

llangennith · 04/06/2017 22:34

'Feeling blessed' makes me cringe.

Rhayader · 04/06/2017 22:35

When DC (both under 5) fart, MIL calls it "a fluff" 😐

fluffycloud · 04/06/2017 22:40

Delish😖

ButterfliesandMoths · 04/06/2017 22:40

Hubby

Bestie

Anything with a #
#this #that stop with the hashtags

Mutiny0nTheBunty · 04/06/2017 22:50

Adding yummy mummy to my previous long list (unless said ironically). Who actually seriously refers to themselves as a yummy mummy? Is it the same bunch of people who would refer to themselves as MILFs (shudder)?

Tartyflette · 04/06/2017 22:59

'So fun' as in ... It was so fun....
Just wrong. Great fun, really fun, even such fun (the last one has me channelling Miranda's mum but never mind.)
On the other hand I quite like both moist and gusset, sometimes even in the same sentence. Grin

Ohyesiam · 04/06/2017 23:59

Often for me it's the way some of these things are said. My 12 year old daughter with now day anything she approved of is sick, and she is so self conscious when she says it, and with so much emphasis. I feel like telling her I don't need convincing she is the next generation, I remember giving birth to her. Same with goals, fleek, bare etc. Just relax, you don't need to impress me, I'm your mum, in already impressed with you.

BoldKitties · 05/06/2017 00:16

Oh I have so many of these!

Saw someone on FB earlier refer to their niece as being 'totes adorbs' Angry.

Also loathe:
Blessed
This one
Plate up (as in, put food on a plate)
Pack up (for packed lunch)
Veg/toms/pots/choc/pud

I have some relatives who, when playing peekaboo with a baby, instead of saying peekaboo, say koo-kee in this really annoying sing-song voice. Can't fucking abide it, it literally makes me cringe.

WellThatSucks · 05/06/2017 04:18

Most of all of the aforementioned, one that I don't think has been mentioned that will instantly drive me to hunt down and kill block the user is 'squee'. As in: 'here's a picture of a cute fluffy kitten - squee!!'
Do they mean 'squeal' which is almost as bad but at least it's a real fucking word. It needs to fucking stop.

Casschops · 05/06/2017 05:19

Naise
Goady
Shouty
Boc boc (as in do you want a bottle when said to a baby.)
Lol

zukiecat · 05/06/2017 11:05

.BoldKitties

I can't stand Pack Up or Plate Up either!

Or "I turned round and said"

MargotLovedTom1 · 05/06/2017 13:34

Cutesy. Fucking, fucking cutesy.

WashBasketsAreUs · 05/06/2017 15:11

Journey - as in a journey from Bath to Bristol is fine, anything else makes me cringe. Just because you're going through some life event, you are NOT on a journey!
Friend - as in " how are you, friend?" Or " my friend" used in the same way. Aaaargh!
There's many more but that's enough for now.

PyongyangKipperbang · 05/06/2017 15:40

Yeah "Personal Journey" makes me want to vomit.

You did NOT go on a personal journey to reevaluate your life goals and fulfill your ambitions. You did a night class in Spanish and went on holiday.

MissisQuigley · 05/06/2017 15:55

We are pregnant.....

That needs to stop.

babykite · 05/06/2017 16:16

Hate fanjo. Just call it a vagina fs

friendlyflicka · 05/06/2017 16:20

confused.com
stupid o clock
diddly squat

malin100 · 05/06/2017 16:36

Tasked Angry

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