What words make you cringe?

[Bintymcbintface]

Just that really. What words make you kinda recoil.

Mine are:

Treats
Creamy
Hubby
Furbabes/furbabies

Gotten

Completely wrong grammar. The child needs fed.

Perfectly acceptable north of the border.

Karen (unless your name actually is)
Flaunt / flaunted / flaunting
Tresses
Hun (unless you're Attila)
Pamper
Princess (unless you are one)
Knurl
Cheeky
Wa'er (water), ta'oo (tattoo)
Slacks

"Supper". Makes me never want to go near food again.

Also, not a word, but when people moan when they are eating (i.e. putting food into their mouth and going "mmmmmm") I want to stab them, and then myself, in the eyes with a fork.

@TheYearOfSmallThings

Bliss.

Ugh, I agree! Especially when people describe a really dull experience (like eating crap chocolate in the bath because their noisy kids are away for the evening) as "bliss" or "heaven".

Or maybe I'm just sad for them!

Oh god yes 'comfy'. Almost bearable for a sofa or a pair of slippers, but I keep seeing people using it for more serious situations ie "he wanted to come over to my house on the first date but I wasn't comfy with that" UGH

The word succulent. Didn't even know how much I hated it until someone posted about their MIL bragging about something she made being so succulent 🤢

Bless her/him - when talking about a child or anyone really

Slay/slaying
EXpresso martini
Handsomes

and loads already mentioned. Hubby/wifey 🤮

I don’t mind ‘myself’, ‘yourself’, ‘himself’, ‘herself’ when said by an Irish person - in fact, I like it - they can carry it off in way no other nationality can.

@GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing

Oh I had a”okey-dokey” too! Sounds passive aggressive especially when written down

I’d never thought of it - but you’re so right about the passive aggressive “okey dokey”!

Facebook speak:
Gifted
Making memories
So, I did a thing....
And just like that...
Living my best life
Lived experience
Fam
Hun
Holibobs
LOL
Hashtag...anything

Corporate speak:
Deep Dive
Circle of Trust (said to me in a meeting this week)
Reaching out
Moving forward

General:
Passed instead of passed on or died (Maggie Smith's character in Downton does a great take on that)
Passed instead of past (and vice versa)

@grapewines

Toddler

I have heard Americans say "tot". That's worse.

Yes and the way “tot” is used in the tabloid press. See also “stunning” to describe any woman to which something unpleasant has happened.

‘This one’

You do you

Yummy
Boujee
Cringe

@Stravaig

Thanks! Famalam seems right somehow for sprawling extended family/friends. Holibobs sounds like an old word made new. Why are they annoying? Is there a connotation, or they just are?

Famalam is a word I’ve only ever heard used ‘on the street’ tbf, especially in London. Not so much these days, although I do tend move in different circles now (hence my posting on this thread 😂)

Holibobs-only ever heard this on MN. Has anyone here heard it elsewhere? I’m intrigued 😳

Change his bum (for nappy)

Game changer !
Urghhhhh

Meal

@BiscuitLover3678

‘This one’

You do you

I fucking hate 'this one'!

"The ick"

Nomnom
Hubby or any variant
Cuppa

@Laiste

Myself

when it should be I or me !!

My eyes roll so far back they nearly fall out.

Yourself

Youse

Dapper

Slacks

Marg