What words make you cringe?

[Bintymcbintface]

Just that really. What words make you kinda recoil.

Mine are:

Treats
Creamy
Hubby
Furbabes/furbabies

Nomnomnom should be reserved for the cookie monster and for the cookie monster only

@ButtockUp

I've always thought it odd that so many people ( usually women) who take exception to the word 'moist.'

I'd love to know why. A number of former colleagues would recoil at the word !

I’m trying hard not to hate it. If it’s referring to cake then of course that’s perfectly acceptable 😜 No matter how hard I try I just can’t not hear the saliva in the speaker’s mouth when saying it though

Nom nom

Hubby, hubs
Hun
Cuppa
Kinda, gonna
The ick (whatever it is)
Picky tea
Alot abit
Myself, methinks

Poorly. It sound so twee and babyish.

Treats

Mine is currently ‘little’.

It’s so frequently used in an annoying cutesy patronising way, especially on Mumsnet.

‘My little part time job’

‘Our own little family’

‘I couldn’t send my children to nursery, they’re so little’

[quote Bintymcbintface]@OldPodge I call everyone "man" or "dude" indiscriminately, I don't mean to offend. And I've just become aware that I must sound like a teenage stoner, shit[/quote]
I actually wouldn’t mind dude personally but cringe about ‘guys’ when it’s used for everyone, specifically in restaurants, even for elderly people. Just feels a bit disrespectful to me in that context.

Gifting

What happening to giving a present or asking is anyone giving away.

Literally

For some reason the words that crop up a lot on money-related threads irritate me:

Spends
Sum
Chunk
Pot
Gift as a verb

As well as:
Veggies
Munch
Up as a verb (as in “I need to up my veggies”)

Also most of the ones already mentioned, and probably all the ones that will be mentioned.

I don't know why, but I hate it when people refer to "bits" for shopping, clothing etc. As in "I'm just going to pick up some bits from Sainsbury's". I think because my grandma used to call her vagina her "bits". It just also sounds so twee.

Calling someone Duck

A Cheeky anything ( Having a cheeky Prosecco- Urghhhh)

Hun

Guys ''What can I get you guys''

''can I get....'' when making purchase, epecially in coffee outlets No, Can I HAVE

Eclectic (when used to describe musical taste)

"guys" in that setting does seem a bit too informal yeah, particularly if, as you said, it's being used to address older people

Nommy as a cutesy term for delicious.

Recent moved to Scotland and my workplace has an obsession with the word "outwith" both literally "outwith the region" and figuratively "outwith our remit". Not keen on that either but I think it's a regional usage rather than work jargon so I'm trying to get used to it. Never heard it in England though!

Moist is one of my Wordle starter words 🤣 Bit shocked at all the hate!

Hun........I absolutely detest it

Digits. Even typing it gives me the shivers.

Say numbers, or fingers depending on context.

Also hustle or side-hustle.

@FayCarew

Literally

This. And it's almost always not literal but figurative anyway.

Also when people start the sentence with "basically..." because it's always a start of a complicated story which is never basic!

Agree with moist and panties.
Tummy - unless used by/to a small child.

@InvisibleDragon Outwith is an everyday word in the Scots language - we're puzzled as to how English functions without it! Which is why we import it even when speaking mostly English. 😄

Oh, I've got another phrase

"easy to pay"

On a fb group for my local area (which I've been ousted from) people often ask for tradesman recommendations that are "easy to pay" it's all easy, give them cash or a bank transfer. What you mean is CHEAP, Brenda, stop dressing it up with your bullshit

Pud / puds
Grab / grabby
Comfy
PJs / jammies
Tummy
Norks
Convo for conversation