AIBU about the word ‘horrid’

[VivienneHolt]

I’ve seen this on about 4 different threads in the last couple of days. AIBU that it gives me the rage?

Terry Pratchett said it best in the Hogfather:

‘That’s horrid’.

Horrible, thought Susan. The word is “horrible.” “Horrid” is a childish word selected to impress nearby males with one’s fragility, if I’m any judge. She knew it was unkind and counter-productive of her to think like that. She also knew it was probably an accurate observation, which only made it worse.

I don’t think I’ve ever encountered it in the real world save for in some of Enid Blyton’s more saccharine efforts, but suddenly it seems it’s invading mumsnet. It’s so twee and prim! It’s one of those words that immediately changes my whole perception of the post, regardless of what else it says.

Am I unreasonable to have such a visceral reaction?

What other words give people instant rage?

I think seedy is a fine word for that sort of illness where you are under the weather, not feeling well, bit nauseous, bit of a fever - just not properly ill if you see what I mean!

”I hate the word spewing”

How about Acute Gastric Nostalgia, @Motherontheedge1 - where everything you’ve eaten comes flooding back to you!

Hate the word “flaccid”

In one job, there was a woman I had the misfortune of having to endure several times a year.

One of her favourite things to do when there were no witnesses was to nudge you with her ample shoulders and make sniggering comments about 'these people' or 'they're running on African Time, just like my servants did when we lived in Kenya'. I did make a complaint, but she was 'old school friends' with important people, so it was dismissed with a 'Well, she is very helpful, she's done so much for us in the past her husband made a sizeable donation, etc'. She didn't have the excuse of being old, either, as she was only in her late fifties.

The only way to describe her without getting fired when new management came in - they asked for an explanation why they had been told not to ever ask me to work with her on her subsequent visits - was;

'Ugh [shudder] She's an appalling person. Simply ghastly'.Happily, that answer meant I was able to stay as far away as possible from her whilst not being dismissed for snapping that;

'She's a fucking racist bitch who seems to think she's a 1920s Memsahib and if I have to hear one more shitty comment about how funny it is that she assumed the new manager was the fucking cleaner and barked at him to get a mop and bucket and 'clean that mess up', I will quite cheerfully twat her across her smug fucking face with a fucking steel baseball bat'.

I read lots as a child and would watch old films. In addition, my grandmother was from a privileged background and, on our rare visits, once I began speaking, she enjoyed talking to me and listening to me read Now We Are Six, etc which freaked my mother out as she said I was the only child she'd ever been interested in. So I was encouraged to keep on using what were slightly outdated archaic terms and expressions. Horrid was a perfectly acceptable word to her, as was beastly, atrocious and other such expressions and sayings.

I'm not about to knacker any future employment prospects by dumbing down my vocabulary to keep to the simplest words possible. I'm old, skint, fat and disabled. All I've got left is the ability to speak clearly and expressively -and using alternative words for expressing how detestable a person or situation is, rather than swearing as much as I do on here and keeping to the bluntest descriptions.

MitzK, you are a card, you tell 'em!

Anything you only see in tabloids.

"Romping"
"Reveller"
"Tip the scales"
"Shed the pounds"
"Left disgusted"
"Worse for wear"

"Belly" is a horrid word.

Also there expressions used about adults. Someone on here once disaprovingly asked the OP why, at 2am, she and her FH weren't "tucked up in bed and fast asleep"

I find it a bit affected. It's like the word is horrible, but horrid sounds more old fashioned. Just say horrible fgs.

Twee DH

'Belly' is a great word.

'Tummy' is a horror of a word.

Reminds me of Lavina Greenslade in Riders: "Wupert you're being howwid!"

Really? Is this truly life changing? A discussion on words?
Ladies? Have you nothing better to do?
Oh Ooops! I said ‘ladies’ and that’s probably another non word! Sexism, racism, homophobia oh and yes! Now ‘wordism’?
Grow up!

Awwww someone's a sad little twat. Seriously, you need to calm down with the exclamation marks, petal.

I’m from Yorkshire and if I said ‘fook’ I would have to disown myself! It’s fuck. While I’m on that, gosh and goodness. Just say fuck, for fucks sake!!
I’m more a hater of abbreviations. Can’t stand all this DC, DH crap. Just write my children, my husband. And FGS/OMG and the rest. When did we all lose the ability to actually use full words?!
I love this thread! I could go on all day about words and phrases I despise/detest

One of my biggest pet hates is people misusing the word ‘robbed’. My phone has been robbed. No, your phone has been stolen. Unless they used force or threats of violence to remove said phone from your person.

Actually I hate the word / phrase “spoonfeeding”. It seems to mainly be used to disparage children at private school, as in “Well of course at {school A} they don’t spoon feed them in the way that they do at the private school”.

This annoys me partly because it makes no sense - when children are taught, the teacher breaks up the curriculum and teaches it a bit at a time (whether state or private). The phrase implies that the children being taught are sitting around being babied and haven’t had to put any work in.

One that I’ve only ever seen used on here (and I’m a former lawyer so used to seeing outdated pieces of jargon) is “outwith”. I know it’s of Scottish derivation but bizarre that people use it in English. So grating - just say outside!

I’m never sure about ‘lounge’. I say living room, but that seems a ridiculous description if I think about it. Drawing room..? No, who says that ?

A word used on this forum, and quite recently by an OP - the word ‘ick’ or ‘icky’.

wtf

I dislike 'absolutely' instead of 'yes'. Seems to be out of fashion now

@MedalMedalMedal- we say sitting room; we do mostly sit down to do things in there!

I should call mine the lying room - seem never to sit on a sofa these days but lie flat out !

Sitting or living room is correct. A lounge applies to a hotel, horrible word.

I’ve changed my mind about ‘poorly’.

I’ve just seen it be said from adult to adult in another thread and it sounded sympathetic and caring.

I’m now a poorly supporter.