What's your least favorite word?

[medicmummm]

I'll start off...

Claggy

Clergy- just sounds like a disease

What's yours?

Undies is dreadful too.

Other words I hate

offal
scrawny
thrush (unless specifically a bird)

@bridgetreilly i love saying foofoo it makes my day.

But if I'm honest I prefer 'minge'.

Unguent
Smarts, e.g. "I've got smarts in (random skill) - fuck off

To people of faith, blasphemy is far worse than swearing, though - not just 'not nice'.

Not all people of faith by a long chalk. Lots of Christians don't really care about the use of a common idiom as an expletive just because it happens to reference JC.

Gusset

Moist

I love words. I thing the huge playful variety on show here is great.

The only thing I really hate it the use of words to make communication harder, so the use appears clever when saying something banal.

So management speak and the works of Judith Butler are my pet hates.

I don't mind 'poorly' but what I hate is when people respond to someone's unwellness, especially a hoarse/lost voice, with comments in an exaggeratedly fake-sympathetic tone, and especially if they conclude with 'At least it must get you lots of sympathy!' That's not a single word, though.

Not all people of faith by a long chalk. Lots of Christians don't really care about the use of a common idiom as an expletive just because it happens to reference JC.

By 'people of faith', I'm specifically meaning here those with an active, committed faith that is central in their lives, rather than those who maybe subscribe to or identify with a faith more loosely/culturally/traditionally/arbitrarily.

As with my earlier example, assuming you loved and treasured your Mum dearly, would you really, genuinely not care if you heard people routinely invoking her name - maybe with an expletive thrown in - as a short-hand association with/being blamed for anything bad, hateful or disgusting that happens?

Your neighbour falls off a chair whilst changing a lightbulb and screams your Mum's name in anger, as though she were the one actually there pulling the chair away from under them - you really wouldn't object to that or think it a big deal?

Shit

Shitty

Brexshit (and I'm a strong Remainer)

Snotty

Incentivize

Impact, used as a verb

Tough love (OK, that's two words.)

The only thing I really hate it the use of words to make communication harder, so the use appears clever when saying something banal.

Like saying “dichotomy” when “contrast” or “divide” would do equally well.

Tummy. It sounds so babyish and although it's not a medical term I cringe even more when a medical professional uses it.

Pardon (unless preceded by I beg your)
Fiancé

Hubby