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

Got a bit carried away there but it made me feel better!

Scoff.
My mother uses it repeatedly in relation to the healthy appetites of her young grandchildren. In every other way she is remarkably well spoken. But this is a hideous anomaly.

Toes curled as I wrote this.

Oh GInliness, you've just reminded me of another abomination. People saying that they've 'scarfed' food. 'Scarfing it down.'

And chow down, yes. Equally bloody awful.

Clit / clitty just fuclking awful

Playsuit.

Hells bells!

Eh!

Xmas
Shut up
Pussy (both kinds)

On Police shows when they say 'premise' instead of 'premises'

'Tummy'. Mil used to use a lot, as in 'she has a sore tummy' when talking to me about her mother. Made me feel very infantilised. Thought it deliberate on her part, especially as we both had masters degrees in a science. Still irrationally hate the word now.

Also, I grant you I'm a language pedant at times, but contractions of words bug me.

So - Relos for relatives, Sainsbos for Sainsburys, etc etc

Arggghhhhh

Sarnie.
Getouttahere it's a sandwich.

Tea instead of dinner. Tea is a drink, okay?

Jodhpurs. Yuck, eek, just no!

Akimbo. What? Is it a hawainese word? Japanese?

Spread eagle. What did you just do to an eagle? It is animal abuse...

Oh god, I was watching the Vauxhall advert, with the pyjama mammas(wtaf), the man was saying: "look at those pyjama mammas, with their sweet jam jar"! Wtf is he on about. That has really annoyed me. Jam jar fgs, they don't look likes conserves🤔😕

Oh yeah "jammies". Makes you sound about 5 years old

Famalam for family. Say what??

Jam jar - cockney rhyming slang for car. Might mean that?

Might be that, but it's aghghhg

Not everybody is going to know rhyming slang.

Fall pregnant: it doesn't sound like a happy event.

Vajayjay

unctuous - always seems to be used incorrectly as well

i hate the hyperbole that seems to be a mainstay of social media. everything is 'an adventure' these days

oh and also the 'this one' phenomenon. dinner with this 'this one' tonight. sickly. ----

'treats' is a good example of social media hyperbole. just makes me feel oddly infantile. 'an adventure with this one, treats with this one' 🤢

Chunky
Bless

brekkie
brew
cuppa

oh and also the 'this one' phenomenon. dinner with this 'this one' tonight. sickly

Yes, yes. 'This one' is most irritating.

brekkie brew cuppa

This thread is cathartic.

I see your "cuppa" and raise you "cuppy"

An otherwise lovely parent council mum puts this on notices and posters.

"Pop in for a chat and a cuppy"

Don't even get me started on "pop" as a verb