What words make you cringe?

[Bintymcbintface]

Just that really. What words make you kinda recoil.

Mine are:

Treats
Creamy
Hubby
Furbabes/furbabies

Resonate

Impact used as a verb

"Her and me went to the shops."

Reaching out

Maccy D's (just say McDonalds FFS)

Not a word, but a phrase - 'use your words'. So bloody patronising.

Cuppa
Journey
Gifted
Fell pregnant
Haters

Tricky. Everything's bloody tricky these days. Sorry for pointing this out if you hadn't already noticed it, because you'll hear it everywhere from now on.

Two times. So many adverts now say something is two times more effective, or two times as whatever. What happened to 'twice'? Two times sounds like a child talking.

Kids (when not goats)
Hollibobs
Nom nom
Preggers
Moist

Babe
Crimbo

Panties
Baby Daddy
Unique used with an adjective. It's either unique or it's not
Over 100% used for effort

Tummy and cross

Gift as a verb

'Little man'

Also couples who say 'we're pregnant'. NO. Only one person is pregnant!

Ooh also weird use of the past tense, things like "the baby needs fed' or "needs changed".

That's not the past tense though. It's just a regional form that misses out the 'to be' bit. The participles 'fed' and 'changed' are being used in a passive construction and could be used in all kinds of tenses - 'Will need (to be) fed', 'Would need (to be) fed' etc.

I also don't like the words
Breakfast
Bum
Kid/kids instead of children
Weep
Tearful
Stinks/ stink

All of the above piss me off totally unnecessarily.

'Little man'

In the context of "male child" or "penis"?

Bum

One of my favourite words.

Fell pregnant

Absolutely, utterly hate this expression.

@FatOaf 🤣 I was going for male child, but honestly...both! I hear it far more for male child though!

@GlitteryGreen

Ooh also weird use of the past tense, things like "the baby needs fed' or "needs changed".

I know this is a regional thing, but I still hate it because pretentious southern types near me use it too. They tend to be the type of people who try to make everything folksy and romanticised.

You know, the type who sew homemade aprons but own a dishwasher, and talk about "keeping their storecupboards stocked and children's bellies full through winter" even though they're a wealthy SAHM living in a UK city centre.

The pretention makes me cringe more than the phrase!

Maximise.

Prezzie
Crimbo
Cheeky (as in cheeky drink etc)
Ect
Gotten
Gifted
Hubs, hubster, hubby
Holibobs
Uni
Making memories
Picky bits (only ever come across it on here)
Text used as past tense rather than texted
Passed for died

Panties
Unprecedented
Absolutely

Boobs
Make love
Specs
Poorly
Avo (cado)
Spag bol
Apartment (its a FLAT!)

Quinoa

Awesome, hun, epic, sic - I cringe at everyone one of them