AIBU to not like words ending in 'ies' ?

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There seems to be an increase in the use of a particular word ending, and it makes me cringe. Here is my list so far:

doggies
chockies
biccies
smellies
panties
buddies - just ugh in every sense, really makes me squirm.
veggies
roasties
rellies - (shudder)
sickies.

These words seem to me a bit infantalising and lazy - for instance does it really take much more effort to say vegetables instead of veggies? Do you have any words to add to my list, or am I just being unreasonable?

I don't think anyone else has already mentioned it, but also - infantile words spoken by adults is a real turn off and very unsexy

@BitOfFun

Leaving aside the slightly alarming old man, the most offensive of all the words listed has to be panties

I claim an exemption for Scousers, who invented 'leckie' before it was even on Brookside!

Yes, if Scots are permitted to have their 'needs fed/cleaned/washed' then us Scousers claim our 'leccy'! I suspect it probably stems from the way we say 'electricity', with stress on the 'lec'.

I call biscuits 'biccalillies' and I think that's OK
Reminds me of a friend who would get off the train at 'Manchester Piccalilli'.

I hate smellies, it reminds me of dirty washing.
Picky bits/tea reminds me of wildlife documentaries where vultures are picking the yuk bits of meat off a lion s kill like the bits the superior animals dont want.
But my mum calls insects etc beasties which I love! Mum doesn't love beasties though
Littlies can get in the bin (have a friend who works in an infants class and says this).

^ that reminds me that I call insects creepy crawlies, have always done so!

I hate it when people describe themselves as a mummy. Like 'I'm a working mummy.' I rejected an Instagram request the other day because it came from a parenting account called something like 'relaxed_mummy'. No.

Lorries?
Faries?
Ladies?
Spies?
Berries?
Cities?
Parties?
Famlilies?
Ponies?
Dictionaries?
Factories?
Agencies?
Flies?
Pies?

Two of them seem reasonable in your list OP (panties and buddies) but the rest do not. The Dutch add their suffix for little to far too many things, so maybe overuse of suffixes is not confined to the UK.

Overuse of 'big', 'little' and 'literally' I don't like either.

It’s grim, infantilising nonsense. The worst, imo, is baggies. How hard is it to say bags? There’s nothing cute about them.

@speakout - no, no problem with plurals. It's sticking 'ies' at the end of words to make them sound 'cute' and babyish.

I’m with you OP. Have a Facebook friend who occasionally posts that she’s having some ‘posh choccies’

I'm going to add 'pressies' to the list.
It's presents or gifts, not pressies ggrrrr.

Absolutely as Speakout says, there's no problem with plurals. So using examples from above posters:

1 lorry; 2 lorries (fine).
1 present; 2 presents (also fine). Pressie - not fine. It's the dreaded added 'ies' to words that people think is cute and endearing.

I also agree with Biffbaff - the 'mummy' thing is overused, ghastly and twee too. And very patronising.

And another one pops into my head - taking the dog for 'walkies'.

I came on here to say you were BU, but have read all the words I am now filled with The Rage.

YANBU. At all.

Just to gatecrash your thread but how do you feel about “spends” and “lends” etc. I can’t bear them, makes me feel like it’s kids’ pocket money.

Heebie jeebies?

I get them from 'cuppa'.

While we're on the subject, is it trollies or trolleys? I always thought words ending "-ey" didn't pluralise with "-ies", but Sainsbury's appears to think otherwise.

@Katiepoes

Heebie jeebies?

I get them from 'cuppa'.

Yes, but 'brew' is awful too, possibly worse.

Mannie
Wifie
Sweetie shoppie
I'll put the kettlie on for a wee cuppie
Goonie (dressing gown)
Bairnie
Hoosie

All perfectly normal where I grew up and very much part of the language. The diminutive endings are added to just about everything!

However, these have been used for goodness knows how long and are not the same as the examples in the OP

Yanbu. I once watched a movie (was it Four Weddings?) where someone used the phrase rumpy pumpy.
I have not stopped cringing since.

Oh and anyone over the age of 12 using the word tomoz needs to have a hard look at themselves.

This is just downright snobbery. 😂