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Words I hate...I AIBU I know but I want to tell you mine and hear yours.

435 replies

FortunesFave · 11/11/2020 07:22

Smellies.

What an ugly word for something as nice as beauty or bath products.

Booze.

So SLOPPY sounding. BOOZE...no...no...no.

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FuzzyPuffling · 11/11/2020 17:57

Lovely little mole ( is it a mole?) and beautiful lettering, but "wife of" offends my feminist side!

heathergem · 11/11/2020 18:00

Chrimbo

PerseverancePays · 11/11/2020 18:00

Incredible; massively overused especially in descriptions. Grinds my gears. Most things are not incredible.

stayathomer · 11/11/2020 18:03

Big girl pants. Hate it!! Also pan frying (you are frying) and actually in general the way people describe food- chunky chips, crusty bread etc

Headspinner2020 · 11/11/2020 18:10

'Tea' (instead of dinner)
Supper
Picky tea

Drawmelikeoneofyourfrenchgirls · 11/11/2020 18:11

Gusset. God I hate that word!

grubblyplank · 11/11/2020 18:13

Game changer-makes me feel very stabbyAngry

Mashingthecompost · 11/11/2020 18:24

I don't think I dislike any. I dislike the overuse of some phrases, or the incorrect use. Esp 'less' instead of 'fewer'. I also dislike it when people say they don't like 'moist', that's a right old bandwagon. I have noticed that there are road signs near us that say "road liable to flooding" which I don't think makes grammatical sense, but I usually just tend to wonder why they say it. I think it should be 'liable to flood' or... can't think of a word to replace 'liable' when 'flooding' is used. Likely to, has a tendency to, flood. Prone? Probably prone works with flooding.

Turgha · 11/11/2020 18:26

Super is super annoying!

Mashingthecompost · 11/11/2020 18:26

Any individual words, I mean.

IntermittentParps · 11/11/2020 18:31

prone or susceptible to flooding, maybe?

Turgha · 11/11/2020 18:38

Bint (and all derogatory words like that, but especially that one.)

Bambam2019 · 11/11/2020 18:41

When people call an evening meal “picky tea” 😩 also hate “bits” as in “just need to get a few bits from the shop” 😷
Also snooze, hate that word!!
Someone I know also uses the world “whiff” for ‘smell’ and that makes me cringe, too!

HappyChristmasTreeRex · 11/11/2020 18:42

'Naice' because it's nearly always used in an irritating context by someone trying to boast about something or sound superior.

Stealthfart · 11/11/2020 18:45

LongPauseNoAnswer the Queen says pudding. Dessert is for the nouveau riche.

blankiesandunicorns · 11/11/2020 18:45

Hollibobs and familam.
As in "I'm on hollibobs with the familam"

Oh fuck off

MaidEdithofAragon · 11/11/2020 18:47

Pick up instead of buy. My teenage DD says 'can you pick me up some sweets at the shop?'= please buy them for me. It really irks. Pick up means collect.

Stealthfart · 11/11/2020 18:47

‘Fundamentally’. Used by greasy salespeople and politicians. See also ‘going forward’.

Wineisrequired · 11/11/2020 18:51

For me it’s the word moist .

maxineputyourredshoeson · 11/11/2020 18:54

Gash

Borrow(ed) as in ‘borrow me a fiver’ ‘she borrowed me’

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Nomnomnom

Flange

SewingBeeAddict · 11/11/2020 18:56

Plate up
Pack lunch
It makes me want to cut their heads off

GypsyWanderer · 11/11/2020 18:59

Armpit. I literally can’t say the word now and have always called it ‘under arm’ since I was a teenager.

billydilly · 11/11/2020 18:59

Succulent

My dh once used this in a sexual context which, 26 years later, I still can't bring myself to repeat.

GypsyWanderer · 11/11/2020 19:00

An amalgamation of yours, I hate the phrase ‘pack it up’ instead of ‘pack it in’ when you want somebody to stop doing something. In school I remember a teacher who used to say it and it grated on me. Still does to this day!

GypsyWanderer · 11/11/2020 19:01

Also I’m a logomaniac/logophile so I could be here all day Grin