'Foodstuffs' and other words too awful to mention.

[rabbitsnose]

Some words just really make me shudder. Also, 'meal' and 'helping' as in 'another helping of broccoli'. Noooo

Gotten gives me rage and I have no idea why. Have a couple of otherwise lovely friends who use it and arrrghhhhhh

Also, my husband cringes at people who use me instead of my. For example, me bus fare, me cat, me drink. He literally grits his teeth and groans

Yes, don’t mind if it is their natural dialect but some people use it as an affectation.

Gosh , at the start of reply on Mumsnet
cuppa

when did handy tips become life hacks?
when did we start turning nouns into verbs? was there a shortage of appropiate verbs
Not everything was good in the 1980's but it really wasn't much effort to say Steve Coe won a medal at the Olympics instead of medalled in (which suggests he messed things up by interfering ie meddled)
silly shortenings like delish strawbs just why? answers on a postcard please
and euphenisms when not needed pre-loved, I love it so much I'm selling/giving it away oh secondhand then or perhaps if really old an antique or vintage item but not pre-loved just pretenious nonsense

Belongings is such a wierd word. I cringe when you get the announcement on a train especially when you can really hear the middle g.

Brimming.

Can we agree that "making love" as an expression is awful? Fortunately I don't think many people use it these days.

Stay at home surely? Swap out - do you mean substitute? Then in no particular order; hun, bubba, can I get, sat ( in place of sitting), so ( at the beginning of a sentence) and famalam. Where did that appear from?

Another thread has just made me think of the words panty and titty. 🤮

I agree with many of these and would like to add burpees. It reminds me of some nauseating adolescent burping the national anthem.

It's got 'nuts in'. No. It's got nuts in it . Thanks. Signed a Scottish person

Can we agree that "making love" as an expression is awful? Fortunately I don't think many people use it these days.

I may be wrong about this, but I am almost certain that when reading books that were written maybe 100 years ago or more, 'making love' was used in the context of a young couple spending a bit of time together and maybe stealing a peck on the cheek, or whispering declarations of love in each other's ears. Very clean cut and acceptable activities for the time. I remember when I first came across it being confused because I couldn't understand how this very wholesome couple could be making love on a country picnic in an era when they were barely allowed to spend time alone together due to 'appearances' and then I discovered that it meant something completely different. Does anyone know anything about the history of this phrase? I agree that 'making love' as a euphemism for sex is horrible. Although 'lovemaking' is even worse!

familam...gets me every time. Hate it.

I hate 'scran' used for food.

Munch used for something to eat 'let's go for a munch'

Veggies...just say veg!

Not rtft but:

Tom Hardy is delicious. No he's not

Well, I'd happily eat him!

Sarnie.
Just fuck off if the word sandwich is too adult for you.

Most of the words that annoy me I thankfully don't hear in RL, just on here. Like sanpro

@choli I've got a friend who calls them sammies and it gives me the ick 😂

I've have a friend who is lovely in every way except that she says "cris" instead of "crisps"

"Shall I buy some cris while I'm at the shop?"

And I've just remembered. My in laws never call dh by his name, they only ever call him "son" "y'alright son?"
They never call my sil "daughter" they use her name. And they chose his fucking name so fucking use it!

I also can't stand the new use of feels and mood.

"This is a mood" "that's giving me feels"

I have a friend who 'washes' his teeth? Wtf? You clean teeth. He won't accept it's weird.

And another who calls the ground the 'floor'. To her everything you stand on is the floor whether inside or outside. According to her 'ground' is reserved for football grounds etc. so when you are chatting In in the park and the kid drops something she'll say 'oh no you dropped it on the floor!!!'

Despise 'meal'. 'we went out for a meal'. I don't know why but it seems so....low brow.

isabellerossignol

Can we agree that "making love" as an expression is awful? Fortunately I don't think many people use it these days.

I may be wrong about this, but I am almost certain that when reading books that were written maybe 100 years ago or more, 'making love' was used in the context of a young couple spending a bit of time together and maybe stealing a peck on the cheek, or whispering declarations of love in each other's ears.

Yes to both of the above.

I've definitely come across making love to someone to mean courting as distinct from having sex.

To me, even worse than "making love to" is "making love with" someone.
An ex used to say it and it just sounded awful to me. He was a bit of a "feathery stroker" as mentioned in a Marion Keyes book.

Deep clean. Tolerable on carpets perhaps, but how can you 'deep' clean sodding hard surfaces like floors and work tops? A thorough clean is far better.

@isabellerossignol I know what you mean about the more innocent meaning of "making love".

In The Silver Chair (one of the Narnia books) the main characters end up in a giants' castle. Jill tries to find out what's going on and it says, "She made love to everyone - the grooms, the porters, the housemaids, the ladies - in - waiting, and the elderly giant lords whose hunting days were over."

I didn't really notice the phrase when I first read the book but it really took me aback when rereading it as a teenager.

nakedavengerreturns

We always wash our teeth in this house.
Maybe it's an Irish thing ?

I hate "on" my period.
Ugh
Never heard that before til I joined Mumsnet.
Perhaps it's a British thing ?
I say "having my period"

Mine are all bathroom related (avoiding use of the word toilet);
Jobby (I’m Scottish)
Going for a dump
Touching cloth
Skid mark
The shits
Pumped (again Scottish for farted)

Just remembered another expression I hate.
Lovechild to describe a child born outside of wedlock. It implies those born within a marriage weren't conceived with love.
B*llocks to that!

Jacqui’s Feathery Stroker test is a horribly cruel assessment that she brings to bear on all men. It originated with some man she had slept with years ago. All night long he’d run his hands up and down her body in the lightest, feathery way, up her back, along her thighs, across her stomach….And so the phrase came about. It suggested an effeminate quality which immediately stripped a man of all sex appeal….Far better, in Jacqui’s opinion, to be a drunken wife-beater in a dirty vest than a Feathery Stroker.

The book is "Anybody Out There?". There's more to being a feathery-stroker than above, but I certainly remember lying there with my FS and considering a shopping list in my head, interspersed with the most bored-sounding dirty talk ever in the hope he'd hop on and get it over with.