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

429 replies

MrsOverTheRoad · 18/07/2017 13:29

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!" Angry

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

Also

Meal

OP posts:
ScrumDinger · 19/07/2017 09:06

Best thread ever?

ConstanceCraving · 19/07/2017 09:06

Odious.

sowhatusernameisnttaken · 19/07/2017 09:09

Parenting the shit out of life

Makes me think of that god awful Flectcher couple. Cringe.

Sunnysidegold · 19/07/2017 09:10

So many already mentioned!
I hate:
Pants instead of trousers.
I don't think any of us like the word "panties", do we?
Titties
Norks
Bangers (makes me hate gok wan!)
Lots of these are slang for breasts!
Breasticles (shudder!)
Literally (let's face it, it's hardly ever used correctly now)
Smothered (sauces on food)
I'm sure there are plenty more.
Oh, and to the poster who mentioned loving the word "swoosh", I now can't stop repeating it in my head thinking "it is a lovely word!"

BeautyGoesToBenidorm · 19/07/2017 09:33

Journey, used in any context other than to be going somewhere. TV talent shows, I'm looking at YOU.

Preggers/preggo. Just ugly.

ConstanceCraving · 19/07/2017 09:34

Wrap around care.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 19/07/2017 09:50

Catarrh - makes me feel ill.
Pamper, pampering - not just because they're usually referring to expensive things I'd run a mile from anyway. Just hate it.
Amazing - so like totally overused.
Totally as in the above.
Like ditto.
'Of' as in 'outside OF' the town centre. It is not needed!

Peeps

MrsHathaway · 19/07/2017 09:57

#growinguptoofast

I had forgotten how much I hate the phrase and concept "growing up too fast". Years appear to run faster the older you get, that's all it is. If you want your children never to age then you have a problem. THE WHOLE POINT is that they get older.

BeautyGoesToBenidorm · 19/07/2017 10:07

Wrap around care

Yes! No idea WHY I don't like it, but I think I dislike the word 'wrap'. I remember reading the line 'his mouth wrapped around a bacon sandwich', and I found the mental image revolting for some reason, and a bit nonsensical.

wildbhoysmama · 19/07/2017 10:20

Chillax makes my teeth screech. Therefore, DS says it ALL the time to wind me up.
Eg Me " I can't ruddy find my keys/purse/ phone." ( so already irritated)
DS " I'll have a look, mum, chillax." so negating the fact he's helping and ramping up the irritation.

Ramping up
Patched ( as in' He patched me' if someone doesn't answer a text in 3 seconds flat. Only uttered, thankfully, by under 16s)
Jamp ( as in past tense of jump- just awful)
Biccie
Nylon

To pp who said ' Any word in a broad accent' Confused. Look at you in your ivory tower with your cut glass RP, clearly you're superior to us minions. Noone but noone can say fuck off better than a Glaswegian ( or jobby which is one of my favourite words ever).

WhatALoadOfOldBollocks · 19/07/2017 10:22

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??

For me, it's the way it's used by certain men to describe a vagina. Often said in a seedy way that makes my flesh crawl. Actually, I think most men should shut the fuck up about anything sexual when they're trying to be "sexy" because usually what they say or how they say it turns me off.

TheFreaksShallInheritTheEarth · 19/07/2017 10:27

"Cray cray" what? Is that "short" for crazy? It's longer and less easy to say. And sounds fucking stupid and infantile.

I, too, love a good "jobby" though. Haven't really heard it much since I left Scotland 25 years ago.

MrsHathaway · 19/07/2017 10:31

Cakes should indeed be moist but it is one of the worst words in the world.

Agreed that there's something awfully seedy about it. Dank and dark, like moss or must or mould, which incidentally is where the word derives from, etymologically speaking.

wildbhoysmama · 19/07/2017 10:36

Ah Freaks, you need to visit regularly just to get your jobby quota, that or Youtube Billy Connolly. There are so many people who are jobbies or have jobby behaviour, the non-Scottish are missing out on a vital noun/ verb/ adjective.
See also:
Scunnered
Dreich
Thrawn
Stank
Oxter etcWink

Cuckingfunt1981 · 19/07/2017 10:38

Epic arghhhhh can't stand when people say or write it grrrr

faithinthesound · 19/07/2017 10:39

I hate the word "cuddle". I much prefer snuggle. I don't know why, "cuddle" just makes me REALLY uncomfortable. I'm cringing typing it.

I HATE HATE HATE the word "unpack" as it pertains to ideas and concepts. "Let's just unpack that concept..." Or you could eff right off? I have a specific lecturer who I clocked using that phrase more than twenty times in a one hour lecture. It was, in retrospect, portentous of the tumultuous relationship we would go on to have (I can't stand her, and I don't think she thinks much of me either!)

kingjofferyworksintescos · 19/07/2017 10:41

Nom nom
Take care
Little one
Hubby
Learner
Any text speak shortened words
Other half / Better half
Baccy
Chrimbo
Minge
Hun
Brew
Bubs / bubba / babes

mollymollymoo · 19/07/2017 10:45

moist
flange
Brekkie (is breakfast such a difficult word?)
'How ya diddling?'

aaaggghhhhh!

TheFreaksShallInheritTheEarth · 19/07/2017 11:06

Oh my, wildbhoys, jobby is an adjective now? It wasn't in Fife in the 70's - early 90's, just a nice cuddly word for poo, or a jokey insult "Ya big jobby!" Nice to see the evolution of the jobby.
Yes, I do love Billy Connelly's jobby wheeker!

kennycat · 19/07/2017 12:45

I just thought of more...

Kiddies
Sweeties
Fart
Play date has been mentioned but yes it's awful

Katedotness1963 · 19/07/2017 13:24

Unctuous, makes me feel sick.

Thanks to an old "four in a bed" episode I'm also adding Biatch.

Hoor.

Udders for breasts.

Imstyledilemma · 19/07/2017 16:06

Nourishment.

Ughh.

KrayKray00 · 19/07/2017 16:30

Thefreaks Grin

We made the Daily fail!

wildbhoysmama · 19/07/2017 16:42

The evolution of the jobby Wink freaks! Still mainly used in the context of ' Ya big jobby' but can be extended to ' jobby behaviour ' or ' jobby opinion ' or the much loved by me ' just jobbying about'.
For a wee bit of nostalgia search YouTube Chewinthefat - interpreter for the neds. Classic. Even my English friends love Chewinthefat/ Still Game- it travels surprisingly well.

Aeroflotgirl · 19/07/2017 16:51

Penisbeaker (wtaf does that mean)
Playdate,
Baby wearing
Hun, hon, hunny
Babe
Meal, as in lets go out for a meal.
Belly
Calling your boy 'my little man' when he's blooming 11 years old.

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