Meet the Other Phone. Only the apps you allow.

Meet the Other Phone.
Only the apps you allow.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

To Really Hate This Word.

243 replies

Hollanda40 · 20/08/2019 14:41

There's lots of words I quite dislike,
That really make me cringe...
"Panties" and "gusset" are right up there
And so, of course, is "minge".

Children aren't kids, that's baby goats,
And I don't really call DH "hubs"...
I call both my children by their proper names
(I also hate "bae", "boo" or "bubs").

You've now seen my most disliked words,
So now I hate to foist
On you, the worst one of them ALL...
It can only be bloody "moist"!!!

😀

Just a little rhyme to cheer you all up on a Tuesday afternoon :)

OP posts:
helpmeiamatoad · 20/08/2019 15:51

I agree with you on all counts OP except I really don’t mind ‘kids’ !

One I do hate is ‘property’ when referring to a house!

LeysaV · 20/08/2019 15:52

Minge
Gash (vom)
Starting things with "So,"
Hobby (I do not know why)
Angle
Bubster and Hubster

Abouttimemum · 20/08/2019 15:55

Another vote for hun.

Especially written on a Facebook post. Such as:

“God am fumin today”
“Awww what’s up hun?”
“I’ll PM ya hun”

PuffHuffle5 · 20/08/2019 16:01

I dont mind ‘minge’ it’s quite funny. Moist doesn’t offend me either, but I agree with the rest.
I can’t stand when mums refer to themselves as ‘mumma’, it even worse ‘mumma bear’ Confused
I also hate ‘boobies’.

Laiste · 20/08/2019 16:06

@PooWillyBumBum re supper. i'm sure it sounds just fine when you say it Grin

It was mainly this woman's screeching queen voice and the fact she thought she was way above everyone while professing to be a devout christian Hmm

LiveInAHidingPlace · 20/08/2019 16:11

Mama, mumma, momma and every other twee variation of mum.

Preggo. Seriously? Especially when used as a noun "hey, preggos" (yes one board I use uses that regularly).

Bubs, baba, little, my boy/girl, little un etc. It's child, kid (doesn't bother me) or regional variations like wean/bairn.

When did people become so teeth cloyingly sick making?

iklboo · 20/08/2019 16:12

Moist gusset Grin

iklboo · 20/08/2019 16:14

Please - just say abdomen.

And you say 'ouch I just banged my patella on the table' or 'my gluteus maximus is getting too big' Wink (I'm kidding).

FAQs · 20/08/2019 16:14

I hate the words

Folk
Hubby
Holibobs

ChristineTime · 20/08/2019 16:16

I love the word "minge"
I don't know why, it really makes me laugh. I'm childish.

I hate when people use the word "pee". It sounds really twee. Either say "piss" which I understand "pee" to be short for. Or, how about just don't fucking tell us what you're doing in there.
I went out with a bloke years ago who used to say "pee" so whenever I hear someone use this word I just think they're a pervert.

tuberr0se · 20/08/2019 16:17

'Hun' is awful. Hubby is the worst. Though supper is surely just a late night casual meal? Not sure what is wrong with that? Suppose you could also could call it the munchies?! Don't get me started on emojis. The worst of all is when someone responds to something that isn't particularly funny with a laughing so much I'm crying but on an angle./Grrrrrrrrr.

Blutopia · 20/08/2019 16:17

I always read these threads with amusement and think none of the words bother me overly (except perhaps "supper"), but I've just remembered one that I DO hate - "doggy".

Not as in doggy-style or doggy-fashion (apologies), but when somebody actually uses it to refer to my dog.

My terrier is a savage, unfriendly, uptight snarling vicious bastard, so when my old landlady used to ask "And how is your little doggy" I just wanted to set the little sod on her.

MillicentMartha · 20/08/2019 16:18

I love the fact that the poster called PooWillyBumBum is squeamish over the word ‘wee!’

Mitebiteatnite · 20/08/2019 16:19

My all time worst word is 'pamphlet'. I can't tell you why, but it makes me physically heave when I hear it. Leaflet will do just fine, thank you.

picklejimmy · 20/08/2019 16:19

People who say crimbo instead of Christmas.
Particularly in newspapers--when people say 'fessed up. Instead of confessed.
Makes me feel like it's still 2002.

Splurge. That word makes my skin crawl.

Mitebiteatnite · 20/08/2019 16:21

Also don't like 'supper' but my Scottish in-laws say it and it sounds totally different and not all that bad at all. 'shall we go for a wee haggis supper?' Grin

GatoFofo · 20/08/2019 16:22

When people call their son ‘little man/prince/soldier’ makes me cringe.

Gullet and belly sound gross to my ears.

Then the usual fam, hun, holibobs Angry

Badwifey · 20/08/2019 16:23

I hate the word "space" being used when describing a house or room.

tuberr0se · 20/08/2019 16:25

Oooh and 'property' instead of house. And 'per calendar month'

Rachelover40 · 20/08/2019 16:25

Minge, minge, minge and minge!
I like minge (I mean the word), it makes me laugh.

PooWillyBumBum
@Laiste sorry, we say supper if it's eaten at home but 'going out for dinner' if you're in a restaurant. Just how I was taught as a kid.
---
That's quite correct though you can go out to dinner at someone else's house, ie a dinner party.

Love your name btw, very appropriate for this thread :-).

SuzieSunshine · 20/08/2019 16:27

Hate the saying 'I'll give you a tinkle'. Just say 'I'll ring you'. My male mortgage adviser used to say this to me and I lost all respect for him - it just came across as such an unmanly thing to say!!

haverhill · 20/08/2019 16:30

Pamper.
It just sounds wet and twee.

apostropheuse · 20/08/2019 16:31

Two words: fur baby.

Oh, and poorly
and horrid

BlueberryPoppy123 · 20/08/2019 16:32

When people say everythink somethink nothink...

Grumpyoldpersonwithcats · 20/08/2019 16:38

apostropheuse
You beat me to it with 'furbaby'.
I loathe it.

Swipe left for the next trending thread