To ask you for your list of words that you hate?

[MrsOverTheRoad]

I know it's been done to death but I need to get this out

Scrumptious.

Fuck that word. Just fuck it.

It's a stupid, self indulgent sort of word.

"Oh isn't he SCRUMPTIOUS!"

It's such a childish word somehow. So Mary Poppins.

Also

Meal

Nothink, of (past couldnt) c*, horrible. sputum, yuck!

Vibrant.

It seems to be the word every school uses to describe themselves nowadays. Pick another adjective!

Anthropomorphism (mainly because I really struggle to pronounce it, and that annoys me)

I feel the same about anthroposophy which I cannot say. A few years ago I had to do a lot of work with the Steiner Waldorf Schools Fellowship and really struggled saying that word. I was pleased to move onto a different area of education policy and leave Steiner in the past, until they started opening academies!

Amazing when it is pronounced Ay-mazing. Ay as in hay. Especially when everything said to the person gets the ay-mazing! response.

Shaven instead of shaved can't cope with it

Haha at " housecoat ". Instead of dressing gown.

Eugh! Housecoat

Treat- "I will treat you to a bottle of Diet Coke" Oh as it's so rare I get to drink one, such a valuable drink. What is my worth that this 99p drink is such a treat?!

Meal- I will treat you to a meal...yeah, as I have not had food for such a long time! It is just dinner/going to eat...meal makes it seem so much more!

Water feature-Probably a 90's child thing, bloody Groundforce and Charlie's breasts running free made everyone think a 'water feature' was just what their back yard needed..."come over to see the water feature" Now I need a wee thanks!

Hmmh let me think of others

Any kind of therapy-speak - process, closure, intimacy, dynamic, growth.

I work in education and often get headaches from gritting my teeth when some bastard gets hold of a new word and uses it every other sentence (pedagogy instead of teaching, enrichment, impact used as a verb).

Also can't believe you're ten pages in and no one else wants to punch people for calling their dinner 'cheeky'.

chinwag
gunt

smock/frock
puke
piss flaps
gravy, to describe something good, it's all gravy
flapper, used to describe a dangling bogey. I've got a flapper.
and the one I hate most, ironical. It's not a word!

I'm with everyone who said "moist". It absolutely makes my skin crawl. I have no idea why. I love Terry Pratchett books but a character in several of his books is called Moist and I can't read them. Totally irrational I know.

Going slightly off the subject but I also can't stand it when DH, whilst watching Match of the Day, knowingly says "yes, it was definitely an OG" - It's an Own Goal for chrissake, why not say it. Sounds like a real tosser.

Sorry, rant over, had a bad day.....

Urgh, yes to water feature. Or calling anything and everything in your house or garden a "feature".

Overuse of the words basically, essentially and blatantly in a sentence. Grrrrr

"Let's nail this down"

"Let's take a pragmatic approach" (as opposed to what other approach?!)

Elephant in the room

Bottoming out. Yuck.
Squaring the circle. Corporate wank-speak.

Sowhat let's take a helicopter view of this
Then we can touch base offline and run it up the flagpole

Let's see what the customer journey looks like before we go any further down this road

Quiver

Oh god yes, a cheeky anything.

"blessed" (as in "I feel so blessed") and "my bad" aaaaaaarrghh

Don't understand the hate for moist at all. I'm always after a moist cake which is why I usually pick the gluten free ones. Always moist. What's the issue??

We are pregnant. .... really? Well how the fuck did that happen?

Shimmering, incandescent rage falls over me whenever I hear or read that phrase.

Unctuous
Discharge

Burger.

Which is a shame cos I like them to eat, but evidently not enough to go through with ordering one.

Have to second the word chillax. Fuck my life I detest it. I think our previous PM coined it and my DM say's it very often. Each time I have to bollock her...it's cringe as fuck

Picnic
Snax/snacks
Belly
Nom nom
Meal
Pop as in "pop in oven" "popping over"
Lunch
Kiddie
Panties
Slacks/slack
Sandwich
Most words used for vagina, including vagina