What words make you cringe?

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Just that really. What words make you kinda recoil.

Mine are:

Treats
Creamy
Hubby
Furbabes/furbabies

Little man/little lady

Kinda
Fella
Cheater, used as a noun.

Iconic. Horribly overused and usually incorrectly.

Treats is bad, I agree. And slurp.

Not sure why someone hates the word “cheese”!

Along with slurp I hate sip and gulp

Pick, picky, picking of course

In the context of food if people say “something hot” or “something sweet”, especially with over the top relish. I had the word relish too.

Salivating

Appetite

"Hi Ladies" in group chats
"Grassroots" (football)
"Football Mom" (when in UK)

Flaccid

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

Hun/Huni 😡

‘You won the internet today!’

Ugh

Babe
My girls (as in referring to friends)
Moist
Hun

James
Cordon

Sue
Perkins

Reach out when you mean to ring, text or email someone. Its OK to reach out for the remote or to turn the lamp off though.
Moist
Gusset
And, unpopular on MN, vulva

Broody

@Wonnle

James Cordon

Sue
Perkins

Mooch.
Whenever people ask for recommendations for what to do in London (for example) nearly every reply has 'mooch' in it.

Belly. It's used a lot where I live and it makes me cringe. It's stomach ffs

Brunch.

• Curated (used for almost everything these days)
• scrummy/yummy (childish and irritating)
• artisan (pompous and like curated over-used)
• Crimbo
• plant-based
• hubby
• professional (as in 'I want to look professional', as if anyone who does not wear something formal/boring or work in an office cannot possibly be good at what they do)
• babe
• can't be bothered
• gob-smacked
• treat
• like (I was like and then he was like, you know? like)

There are some strange replies here - and some crinegworthy (in my opnion - no one controls language; it's based on past-usage consensus).

But this thread in places also confuses matters of personal opinion with long-established regional usage. In lowland Scots, for example, 'needing' plus a noun or verb has been standard usage for probably 1000 years.
'He's needing to be going to the doctor's'
'I'm needing proof'

etc etc etc

Gonna & wanna.

hun,babe,bae,wifey,hubby get right up my back
but most of all its people using D on here in front of describing people/family members

"Little man" when people refer to boys.

"Nom not nom"

Hollybobs

HUN

Nom
Rant over

and the thing I hate to see the most:
Me thinks

Curated
Repurposed
Flip as in houses
Forever home
Making memories
Veggies
Staycation
Hubby
So - when used to begin a sentence
OK so - even worse when used to begin a sentence
Myself and yourself used wrongly when it should be me, I or you
Get instead of have
Grab as in grab a coffee, a drink etc
Picky tea
Pack lunch - it's bloody packED
Crimbo

That's probably enough to start with

Thought of another - reaching out

But this thread in places also confuses matters of personal opinion with long-established regional usage.

I'm not sure people are confusing it. The thread is about words and phrases you don't like. You can dislike perfectly correct words and phrases, including ones which are regional. The fact that they are perfectly correct in context doesn't mean some people might not find some of them irritating.