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

[FortunesFave]

Smellies.

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

Booze.

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

Pudding is U but dessert etc are Non U.

@Janegrey333

The word “piece” to describe an item of clothing. I don’t care if people who work in “the industry” use it. It sounds stupid.

Yes. I used to have a Saturday job years ago in retail and the staff were forever talking about ‘pieces’ in the ‘current collection’. It was a crappy high street chain. I was embarrassed for them.

@abstractzebra

Gifted, as in 'I've been gifted a coffee make' or whatever! So you've been GIVEN a coffee maker then. No need for an additional, pretentious word when one already exists 😡

To 'gifting' can I add many other nouns which have become verbs, parenting, birthing for a start.

People using "sick" to mean good. It makes me twitch in disgust

Recipes can get annoying, as well. 'Clap on the lid' made my eyes twitch the other day.

This reminded me, I hate hate hate 'heaping' as in 'two heaping spoonfuls of sugar'. Very pretentious IMO. And also makes me think of heaving = vomiting.

Yy ShowofHands to the inflationary use of 'amazing'. In a not dissimilar vein, 'experience' to describe a day out - bad enough when the marketing teams of ridiculously expensive places do it, worse when their customer base literally buys into it.

'Parenting' and, to a lesser extent, 'birthing' I find quite useful. There wasn't a word for the exact activity of 'parenting' before, quite possibly partly because it didn't exist as a concept, and I think we are all better off for it existing now.

Y re amazing, also ‘incredible’. Some people must go around in a constant state of astonishment.

I hate the prefix of "super" on to everything these days..... supercute, super excited etc. what happened to just using very!

I was going to start a thread about this the other day. My husband thinks I'm mad so I will vent on here
I buy my fruit and veg from a local delivery service and for some reason there is a woman who posts her list on the public site every week.
This week:
Jkt pots
Swt pots
Strawbs
Rasps
Blues
Grps (Rd)
Ansd worst of all... Colly

If that's not bad enough, she then posts pictures of every meal she makes with said Jkt pots, colly etc and lists the ingredients.

Am I unreasonable?

Referring to things which should be plural in the singular, eg/ she really suits a red lip, you need a heeled boot with that trouser.
Also, not strictly words I don't like but people that mouth swear words or replace with things like chuffing, effing, bar steward, what the fudge; if you want to swear just fucking swear

These ones. What is wrong with these?

I got this off, rather than I got this from.

Outdoors rather than outside.

@Janegrey333 yeah very true, brought versus bought baffles a lot of people!

Another one from me - people who write 'chopped toms' or even 'tin chopped toms' like where is the rest of it, how much time are you actually saving by writing it that way

It is a tin of chopped tomatoes

Not tin chopped toms - you're just making sound effects by saying it that way

(I know this is a bit irrational of me!)

My veg woman buys toms from time to time. Sometimes lg ones and sometimes baby or sml ones.

Yes to 'off' in place of 'from', especally where the reference is to a gift. 'I got this off my mum for my birthday'. 'Ds always gets a present off MIL'. It makes it sound as if it's been snatched/demanded with menaces.

"Tummy." It's all over the NHS website, presumably as some kind of Plain English policy. But I fucking hate it. It's so twee!

Oh. ‘Methinks’

I’m going to be popping in and out of this thread forever.

Using the singular for things that always come in pairs...

"Here is Fuzzy in a red lip and white trouser, with this season's clunky boot"

KingdomCapers Sorry, I have only just noticed your post upthread saying exactly the same thing. No idea how I missed it, but Well Said!

@ZoominMoomin

Apologies if these have been mentioned -

'Lush' - Only excuse is if you're Welsh and it's part of your dialect.
'Buttery' - Made worse by people using it to describe the texture of a product like make up or something. 'Oooh this formula is SO buttery!'. Get to fuck.
'Crimbus' - Stop being a child. It's Christmas.
'Fur baby' - No, it's your pet. I highly doubt they were birthed out of your vagina.
'Collective' - When a restaurant or bar is called The _ Collective, I immediately assume you're run by a bunch of hipster idiots and probably wont want to give you my money.

@ZoominMoomin I hate "fur babies" and "Chrimbus" as well. Also "Chrimble". Who the fuck invents these words? 🤦🏼‍♀️ My nan made me cringe the other week... she bought some vests for our baby (which I really appreciated, I'm not ungrateful) but she referred to them as "vessies" 😳 part of me died inside.

"Bestie"
No idea why it irritates me so much, My Sil uses it all the time to describe her friends and her daughters friends.. its like chalk on a blackboard for me. 🤐

Squelch.

Munch.

Snuggle.

Also Gorge.

Pile (as in pile food).

Devour.

"Butter soft leather".
Just sounds greasy to me.

Yet another vote for myself/yourself.
'less' instead of 'fewer' .
'literally' , in the context of 'I literally died laughing'.
And 'like', in, like the context of like just like saying it for like no reason.

And obviously gusset.