Words that other adults use that irritate you?

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Some examples that seem to irritate me (yes I know it’s totally irrational!).

First is someone calling the tumble dryer ‘the tumblee’ (written phonetically to explain how they pronounce it). Second is ‘homee’ rather than home. I know there is no reason for these to give me the rage but they do.

AIBU to feel irrationally annoyed? What words that other adults use give you the rage?

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Swimming baths! Ugh. It's a pool. Bath conjures up grime and hair and soap scum 🤢

Oh and ‘fill your (or usually ya) boots’. It makes me cringe. It’s (IMHO) a stupid expression and puts me in mind of someone having uncontrollable diarrhoea!

"Little man"

"Little lady"

Both make me feel sick.

@Washeduponthebeach

People calling their pets 'My boy/My girl'. No, it's a bloody animal, not a child.

My two gorgeous Toy Poodles are our boys 😃

Forgot "sassy" as a way to describe brattish behaviour.

"Our princess is so sassy this morning, sassy little madam 💁🏼‍♀️ 🥰 !!"

@Bebethany

Hun, hun Hun I can’t fucking stand being called hun!!!! 🤬🤬

Me neither. It's so bloody condescending

I hate it when people call themselves "Mama" or their babies bubba or bubs. I hate hubby. Also Crimble for christmas. I really cringe when people say "I was not a happy bunny".

100%

Instead of 'yes' or ' I agree'

When someone's asking a group for advice and they refer to the group as the hive or hive mind.

cheeky monkeys in reference to one's children. HATE IT
fambam
famalam

"Hack" as in 'Try this great hack'. You mean shortcut, tip, suggestion, idea, repair.

Nom nom

"Mumma" (as in, this mumma is so proud etc etc )

@PlasticCupPolitics

Hubby/Hubster Breaky Choc/Hot Choc/Choccie Picky tea Avo (avocado) Spag Bol Boobed/boobing Contact parenting - you’re just parenting, fuck off. Key Worker Snowflake Woke Xmas/Crimbo We are pregnant Little man to refer to a male child Ickle/lickle/hospickle Pickle instead of gherkin “doctor here” or “nurse here” - often seen on threads where someone is asking for medical advice.

I think I just hate people in general, actually.

😂

@adagio

Office bollocks speak. Particularly segue - stop bloody ‘ Segwaying ‘ everything into everything else. Ideation is also particularly annoying.

Yes. This. I would also add 'getting your ducks in a row' and 'silo working'. Those two phrases are used ad nauseum in the local authority I work for.

@LiveatCityHall

Fucking "Doggo". Makes me want to rip my ears off.

couldn't agree more!

"Girly" day/time/meal/shopping trip

Having a mooch

Doggo

Famalam

"Stunning" to describe something mundane like a pair of curtains

When people say "I was sat" or "I was stood there" rather than saying sitting or standing....more of a grammatical error I suppose

"Call him out..."
"Call her out..."
"Call them out..."
"Call it out..."

"Challenge" FFS. That's the word you're looking for! "Challenge him..."

It's not bloody difficult.

@RandomCatGenerator stop it

Yep - infuriating - men can't seem to let women have anything

Women being described as "feisty", "bubbly", "stroppy","empowered", all utterly sexist
Also "boyfriend clothes" as in boyfriend jeans, what the f does this even mean??

I’m so intolerant of people using annoying words!!

Kiddies, sweeties and bunnies makes me feel physically sick; particularly kiddies.

People who call themselves their pet’s mummy etc and/or sign cards from them. Demented behaviour.

Holibobs
Hubster
Babe/hun

I could go on.

Anyone who calls their other half "babe"
Camp, drag, girly, - all words that insult women
Men who call other men "she"

Posh.

Someone once tried to explain it to me as a thing that has cost a lot of money or had a lot of money spent on it.

So my kids get called posh because they have an accent that is not local to where we live. Their accent was free. We are from another country.

And a sausage. That can also be posh. How can a sausage be posh? It’s a sausage. It didn’t attend a private school, it’s a sausage.

I think where I live, it is used to describe something that is foreign, not local, perhaps what ‘those people down south’ might use / eat / sound like and I just find that so ignorant and small minded.

When my kids use the word they get told off. More than if they dropped the f bomb, that’s how much I dislike the word!!

Having just watched the entire series of the MAFS U.K., I think I might cry if anyone utters the words ‘my truth’ or ‘L Bomb’ ever again 😥