'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

UnderTheIroningBoard, I mean your lower abdominal region like if you had appendicitis or a kidney stone, not your stomach?

I might be the minority here but I can't stand how Pharrell Williams sings the word Happy in his song by the same name. "Cause I'm happy.... Cause I'm happy..." I'd love to never hear that song again!

A ‘piece’ when referring to an item of clothing.

The fam.

Gobble.

Belly is a great word.

Much better than tummy or stomach (unless you are referring to the actual stomach).

Can't imagine going into a butcher and asking for pork stomach 😂. Or talking to someone about their navel piercing. It's a belly button!

Munch, I know someone who often says they have been out for a nice bit of munch.
It makes me murderous.

For free when it should be free of charge.
Fun used as an adjective; fun time.

Moist..

The phrase ' it is what it is ' ...

@aupresdemonabre "reader" is Charlotte Bronte, not Austen. "Reader, I married him" is from the end of Jane Eyre.

Sorry to be so pedantic but it's one of my favourite books.

Grown-ups. FFS, can't you just say adults? We're not 4 years old.

On the food theme I really dislike the phrases "all the trimmings" and "a good spread"

Sourcing instead of shopping or even just, you know, buying stuff 🙄

Bloody typo That should have been to @aupresdemonarbre

People using words like purchase, acquire rather than the perfectly acceptable 'buy' to sound posh and formal. You see this kind of thing here when people compose imaginary notes for twattish neighbours etc. The unnecessary adding of 'polite/ly' eg 'polite note', 'I asked politely'. Do people usually ask things rudely? Isn't polite just the base?

For me it's those holiday posts on social media captioned with the words "and relax". That really winds me up. Along with...

Meal
Nom nom
Awesome sauce
It is what it is

Oh, and footwear, the ghastly Rees-Mogg and 'footwear'. Nobody says that!

The verb "to prep"
I'm going to prep the dinner.
I prepped the dinner.

What's wrong with using a few extra letters to finish the word prepare???
I'm going to prepare the dinner.
I prepared the dinner.
Much smoother.

"Prep" makes me think of private education, not organising yourself.

Gentle reminder ...why not just reminded why does it need to be gentle..

‘Plate of food’ a la John Torrode makes me want to vomit and smash the television up simultaneously

Reminder not reminded

I hate belly too. I also hate tummy when adults use it. My 50-something sister said today that our 80-something DM had tummy ache. It’s stomach, for goodness sake.

I struggle with what to call that area though. I don't particularly like belly, tummy is for small children and I hate it when people use stomach in reference to the whole lower front torso, rather than just the internal organ.
It should be abdomen, but that often sounds awkward, for example if a child comes to me crying because they've been hit by a football, it seems weird to say "Where on your abdomen did it hit you?".

Kiddos. Hubby. Haters. Nom.

A person on my favorite forum repeatedly informs people of her favorite dishes which is totally acceptable but she keeps calling it, "tasty noms". I am sure she's a lovely person but I want to punch her every single time I read that or her saying her food made her, "nom, nom, nom". She's a grown woman too.

Just no.

I always think of loads of these and then when these threads come up I can never remember them.

My all time worst though are:

Veggies for vegetables, especially any sentence finished with 'and loads of veggies'.

Little tummies, especially 'it will fill little tummies' usually heard in the context of cooking on a tight budget.

I get the 'meal' hatred, especially 'evening meal'. Although that's not as bad as using the word 'supper' when talking about your evening meal ie. Dinner.

I loathe the use of "Shop" as a transitive verb, particularly in advertising, as in "shop our full range", or lip or eye in the singular for makeup as in a red lip, a smoky eye - makes me think they are only half done?

Yes, yes, yes to hubby/hubs, bubs/bubba/baba and ESPECIALLY preggers

‘Space’ a-la George Clarke ‘what an amazing space’ ITS A ROOM!!!

Oh and ‘bit of kit’ no idea why, I remember cringing at it as a child and nothing’s changed.

When dd1 was a baby in Liverpool, I was introduced to the world of ‘bok/bokky, doady and meddi’. That’s bottle, dummy and medicine to anyone who CAN HEAR THEMSELVES SPEAK AND DOESNT WANT TO HEAR THEMSELVES TALKING LIKE AN ABSOLUTE TWAT!! Soooo much rage for those 3!!!