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.

GoldophinHorne
😁😁 It's "loo", "sorry", "sofa"and "napkin" here!

@flaviaritt

Oh god “brew”. There was a thread a while ago where the poster wrote “make a brew” every third sentence for about a page and a half. It was awful.

Wasn't that thread about how she hated the word "brew"?

Mine is "tips and tricks" at the moment. Particularly when they are promised but are never forthcoming. That phrase makes me irrationally angry.

Cuppa!

I dislike the word banter. People use this term to be nasty, obnoxious, cruel and rude to another person. It’s wrong on all levels, in my opinion.

Hun

I am not an ancient nomad, or your abbreviated honey.

Agree with hubby. Also feed to describe a meal (sorry ). Personally dislike drama lama when not addressing a child.

"Selfie" - I hate that it's been added to the dictionary! Very annoying word

I really loathe cheeky anything –cheeky pint etc.
And on the same theme, wine o/clock/gin o/clock etc.

I hate 'meal' too.

portion and (relatedly) batch make my toes curl, as does wallet and purse.

Can't bear baby talk like om nom and holibobs. Grow up for fuck's sake.

Cleanse - just say "clean", FFS.
Hun
Hubby
Resiience - in the context of using the need to build resilience as an excuse for not offering any help or support.
Hacks, as in cooking hacks/tricks.

TBF I think it sounds weird to say 'clean my face'. 'cleanse my face' works better.

Agree with the resilience one, we were just talking about that yesterday in the context of GCSE and A level students. Why do they need teaching at all, they just need to be more resilient and spend every waking moment catching up...

Agree with the verbing of nouns like "to bubble" - eg "to medal" (win a medal) or "to podium" (achieve a podium position in a race). Yuck.

Moist. Gusset. Flange. And hate the C word. 😠🤣

“Global pandemic” (usually because it’s used in the context of posters trying to tell other posters what they should/should not be doing).

“Belly” - makes me think of someone’s big hairy gut. I correct my poor DD every time she says this even though the rest of the world seems to say it. It just makes me flinch.

Supper

Makes me cringe.

@GorgonzolaSouffle

Supper

Makes me cringe.

And I hate ‘tea’ when it’s the evening meal.

We will forever be a divided nation.

@IntermittentParps

TBF I think it sounds weird to say 'clean my face'. 'cleanse my face' works better.

It sounds so unctuous. It's right up there with "moist". And what you are doing is cleaning, after all.

@IntermittentParps

TBF I think it sounds weird to say 'clean my face'. 'cleanse my face' works better.

I wash my face.

Resilient/resilience make me feel sick inside. I feel they are used to victim blame especially in a school context.

And I hate ‘tea’ when it’s the evening meal.
We had dinner and tea when I was a kid (south of England, working-class). Now I seem to move in more 'liberal elite' circles and I say lunch and dinner, but do feel like a bit of a class traitor and an impostor.
I cannot quite bring myself to start saying 'supper'. Supper when I was a kid was a little plate of snacky things like bread, cheese, pickled onions, just before bed, because we had our tea so early (5.30pm) I always got ravenous again.

Seen others hate the word resilience as well.

Grumble? YABU. Have you not heard the completely appropriate collective noun "a grumble of pugs"? Couldn't be bettered.

You'll notice a theme here:

Brolly
Cossie (swimming costume, maybe spelt Cozzy?)
Hubby (hubs also as bad)

“Panties” revolts me so much that it has been forbidden in my house forever. The DC, now grown up, refer to it as “the P word” and used to warn visiting friends, in solemn tones, never to mention it!
As for the pudding/dessert argument- it dates back to the Napoleonic wars. Any French terms were regarded with horror as unpatriotic and replaced with English ones, by the upper classes. So pudding, napkin, lavatory replaced dessert, serviette, toilet.
However, the lower classes still thought French terms were posh - so they used them. Which led to them being branded non U by snobs, even up to the present day.
I still have an involuntary internal cringe at serviette, but try to be polite and hide it!
My other dislikes- although nowhere near my loathing for the P word - are “4 a.m. in the morning” (it could hardly be 4a.m. in the bloody evening, could it!)
Return back (return means to go back. So they’re going back back)
Ignorance of the correct past tense:
I done it, I sung it, he has went away. Aaaargh! What is so difficult about I did it, I sang it, he has gone away?
Misuse of reflexive pronouns- the infuriating “myself” peppered everywhere when “me” should have been used. Ditto misuse of “me” in place of “I” - “Me and Fred went out”. Gr, no! Fred and I, please.

Sorry, bit of a rant! I feel so much better now...

'In actual fact'. Please don't say this, it makes my teeth hurt.

Utilise. You can nearly always say use instead.

'Boobing' as a term for breastfeeding.

Pack-up for a packed lunch.

Hubster.

Holibobs.

Anything that could be used on an etsy plaque to be honest.