'Foodstuffs' and other words too awful to mention.

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

I’d never buy Lickle Bubba or My Babiie products because both of those brand names made me grind my teeth.

Sorry I’ve just discovered it’s Ickle - even worse!

The Meal, as in 'are you making the meal'.

NO I'M NOT MAKING 'THE MEAL', I'm cooking dinner!

An ex friend who was quite a cow in the end used to say "pootle" all the time - pootle to the shops, pootle to the gym. Aaaghhh it was so irritating. She also said "mooch" a lot as well.

I can't stand it when people pronounce "ish" as "iss" - I've noticed politicians who are trying very hard to sound well spoken saying things like "issssue" "tissssue" and so on

Another one which was a bit odd and I don't know if anyone's ever heard this before is my ExH used to pronounce muesli "mewslay" - it made me want to hit him

The only acceptable use for the word 'belly' is immediately combined with 'button'.
On its own, in my best Hyacinth, I'd say it sounds sooo common!

Also hate adults using the word tummy about their own or other adults stomachs.

I really dislike 'picky tea', it's a buffet people!

Also calling it 'tea', it is dinner if an evening meal. Tea is a drink.

The only acceptable use for the word 'belly' is immediately combined with 'button'

So how would you order pork belly?
What would you rather we call a pot belly stove?

@TheStuffWasBad - I'm vegetarian so I wouldn't anyway, but it's a horrible use of the word 🤢

I can't stand 'hubby', 'hubs', 'hubster', 'nom, nom', 'chocs', 'eateries'... All of which have already been posted.

I wonder why these words become so annoying/cringey?

This is getting quite classist now. In some parts of the country 'tea' is a meal and that is such a boring old hobby horse to ride out.

I don't like it when people say "a wine" for a glass of wine.
I realise I'm being stupid because "a beer" or "a gin" sound fine to me. Mind you, I don't like "a tea" instead of "a cup of tea" whereas "a coffee" sounds quite okay.

Luckily, I don't like tea so it doesn't often come up (well, it might if I drank it, I really do dislike it...).

An ex friend who was quite a cow in the end used to say "pootle" all the time

One of mine always talks about her husband "bimbling". He has a couple of hobbies that really would be outing because they're pretty uncommon (he does cycle and play golf as well) but which produce beautiful results (imagine it was something like painting or making pottery).
She always says that he's "bimbling" around in his workshop, making him sound like a child playing with plasticine or something.

“Resources” when referring to people in a company.

Meal is okay, 'the meal' is fucking evil.

DH is wonderful, I really do think he's a fantastic person but he says 'look to' and 'looking to' and I want to punch myself in the face. I can't stand it.

'I'm looking to finish early today', 'I'm looking to go to the gym after work'. 'I'm looking to pop to XYZ later'...is it an actual thing? Is it just him? He has no idea I hate it so much. What does it even mean?!

I get irrationally bothered by "What do you think to this dress?". I'd say "What do you think of this dress?" I'm not sure if my way is wrong or if it's some kind of regional variation.

I also... and I feel IABU... but I get annoyed by people saying that they hate the word moist. Everyone seems to hate the word moist, what's wrong with it! It's not a bad word! Belly however, I definitely understand that one. It makes me feel weird and I struggle to say it.

Urgh to nom. And to #foodporn, #nailporn #shoeporn etc
And people on saying 'catch yourself on op', about as edgy as James nesbitt in cold feet

Nom nom too. That's just awful. And any shortened version of a proper word, like prep.

Sexy. Just makes me shudder. It sounds so ridiculous, especially when used to describe objects. It's word that should only be used in an ironic way.

Hubby. No idea why, but it gives me the rage.

Loo, on the other hand, makes me wince. Such a horrible, twee little word. Call it the toilet, the lavatory, the privvy, the bog, the necessarium or even the shithouse, but "loo" is a bit like nails on a blackboard.

Also, a very long list of words/phrases used at work that make me think the person using them is a wanker;

Blue sky thinking
Strategy
Issues
Deep dive
Conceptualise

and so many more...

I work somewhere that all that awful businessspeak is viewed as a sign of incompetence, which is absolute bliss.

But I used to work somewhere that is was absolutely compulsory. As in, you'd be pulled to the side and given a 'talking to' for using the wrong terms. So you weren't allowed to 'tell' someone something, you had to 'cascade' it. It was utterly tedious, and such a waste of time and ability.

Agree with meal and hence Amelia. Gobsmacked is mine. It's so horrible and sounds so moronic. There are easily ten words that are actual words that mean the same thing. Smacked in the gob. Ugh.

I used to work with someone who'd say 'gone toilet' instead of passed urine. (We were veterinary nurses discussing the patients...) (Silent scream!)

I cant stand 'Lil' shirt for little. Sounds really chavvy and silly.
Also hate people referring to every cute baby as a 'lil heartbreaker'

My mum also says I am going for a plop, her word for poo. I hate it cos all I can think about is a horrid poo making a big splash in the toilet.

Then she also uses the term piddly pee, for wee.

Just cringe everyone lol

Panties. No. Just no.