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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

To ask , what is your least favourite word/phase?

422 replies

SteveAs · 07/03/2018 18:54

I will start

Beast from the east- just cringe

OP posts:
Icomehereseekingpeas · 08/03/2018 22:04

Full time mummy.

It's a ridiculous thing to say.

woollytights · 08/03/2018 22:06

Simples

Happy days

Keep smiling

I sound bloody miserable don't I Confused

roboticmom · 08/03/2018 22:06

Every little helps. Every little what helps? Little is not a noun!!!!

Also my dd started ending her sentences with ‘so....yeah’ ugh

Mawalls · 08/03/2018 22:31

get your rat out

Worldsworstcook · 08/03/2018 22:32

You get a lot more bang for your buck

(Drives me nuts, puts my teeth on edge)

confusedalot1 · 08/03/2018 23:10

‘6 of 1’ argh.

KichenDancefloor · 08/03/2018 23:20

Gusset

KichenDancefloor · 08/03/2018 23:21

Pushing the envelope - a management phrase so banal and devoid of meaning that no on can explain what the heck it means.

KichenDancefloor · 08/03/2018 23:28

Hashtag, when spoken aloud.

'I was all, like, hashtag squad goals with my fam.'

kierenthecommunity · 08/03/2018 23:34

Most of mine have already been mentioned...

‘All the feels’ - sounds like you’re being groped
‘Love the bones of him’ - just sounds really common
‘Spit of him’ - ditto

Some that I don’t think have been mentioned;

‘Go to’ unless it’s referring to a person. As in ‘penne pesto is my go to midweek meal’ or similar
‘Hive mind’ noooooooo! So wanky Hmm
A grammar one but ‘been’ instead of ‘being’ such as ‘kids been kids’ or ‘you can’t help been ill’

KichenDancefloor · 08/03/2018 23:34

Immigrant.

Used to be a descriptive word but in modern UK use is often disparaging, dismissive or nasty. The same bile isn't used when people talk about refugees, visitors, ex-pats or foreign workers.

TheHobbitMum · 08/03/2018 23:51

Moist shudder

affectionincoldclimate · 08/03/2018 23:57

Reading this thread through gritted teeth, so to speak as so many of these are setting my teeth on edge.

Not sure if this was mentioned but pots for potatoes. To go with toms.
FFS!

EverlastingLove · 09/03/2018 00:02

My Grandchildren everything is , "Like " , " or " Random ", my son calls MN, The MUMTY NUMPTYS !

WatchoutDSisdriving · 09/03/2018 00:06

I hate the c word.

I also hate the phrases “wind your neck in/ keep your beak out” that get trotted out on certain threads on here if the OP has dared to question something that is usually morally wrong.

LeighaJ · 09/03/2018 02:20

lightbulbneedschanging

"Does anyone actually know what ‘my bad’ means it doesn’t make any sense"

That you f'ed up and are acknowledging/owning up to said f'ing up.

LeighaJ · 09/03/2018 02:55

The most hated words seem to be:
Bae
Hubby
Hun
Lil Man
Moist
The C word

I didn't count each instance but I think those are the ones I spotted most often. I can't sleep, so I have to make my own fun. Blush

BertrandRussell · 09/03/2018 08:17

I hate cunt used as a swear word or insult. And no, it is not regional, or dialect. Or being reclaimed. It's just misogynistic.

GrannyGrissle · 09/03/2018 08:31

'l could OF said'
Chocs (for chocolates- Yuk).

Spoog1971xx · 09/03/2018 08:57

Gotten, gifted, yummy, hubby - just no

Sillybilly1234 · 09/03/2018 09:02

Wind your neck in
Also
Cis woman

Lalliella · 09/03/2018 09:18

To die for.

So you’d die for chocolate cake would you? Allow me to help by beating you to death for being annoying!

LuckyBitches · 09/03/2018 09:21

Tummy

TitsalinaBumSquash · 09/03/2018 09:55

I'm fairly laid back, none of these bother me and I quite often call people Bae (not in public) because my young teenage children find it both hilarious and eye-roll worthy all at once.

The two things I do have an inward pucker about are,

The phrase, 'boys will be boys.' which I translate as, these people can act how they like because they have a penis and we shall all shrug it off as nature.

The other thing is a salon that I drove past occasionally and it's called '2 Gawjus' which even just typing now makes me shudder, I don't know why, the W and J together in a word seem to get my back up.

GreatDuckCookery6211 · 09/03/2018 09:59

LuckyBitches I don't like tummy. But belly is worse 😩