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To ask what words you really hate?!

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Fragmentsof2022 · 11/12/2022 13:46

I really hate the words ‘teaming’ and ‘pairing’ - as in ‘I am teaming this hat with these gloves’ or ‘She paired the silk blouse with the red skirt’. Just fuck off.

It’s like nails down a blackboard for me 🤣

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catmania · 11/12/2022 15:35

Scrummy,just hate it. Went out with a bloke many years ago who would describe tasty food as being scrummy.

ExcuseeeeMe · 11/12/2022 15:36

I can’t stand the word pare.

ToWhitToWhoo · 11/12/2022 15:40

Honper · 11/12/2022 14:09

Other annoying words: resilience (trans. : fuck you, deal with it), [noun]-friendly - a toxic mix of cloying, smug and needy, often with nonsensical results. For eg I see food described as 'vegan-friendly' - what does that even mean? Cows probably feel quite friendly towards vegans because vegans don't eat them or take away their babies. So is steak 'vegan-friendly' then? What about that wall over there, which has never expressed any hostility towards vegans? I guess that's 'vegan-friendly' too. Just say 'vegan', you sanctimonious halfwit.

I also hate it when 'resilience' is misused to imply that it's a moral virtue.

gonkk · 11/12/2022 15:41

Offer (offer baby the breast, offer baby some water, offer baby the nipple, offer baby a bottle)
Fuck off with your offer and just give your baby some milk!
I'm so cross. Such a teacher thing to say.
Hey / heya
SEN (more so it being the first in line answer for any child misbehaving) "do they have SEN?"
I have anxiety.' No.. you're anxious about a certain thing. Anxiety is a clinical diagnosis.
Belly. Tummy is just about okay in children. Other than that it's stomach.
Dog food. Just sounds grim.
Misogynistic. Such a buzzword that some women on here are so desperate to type at any given moment.
Gaslighting. See above.
ODFOD. What kind of shit insult is that. If you're going to sell sometime to fuck off, then just say.. fuck off.
'I just spat out my tea laughing' ..no you didn't.
Challenge. 'What did you do when you challenged them?' 'I would challenge them if they said that again.' Challenge me all you like but it's hardly going to be a challenge!

Probably got loads more 😂

rainbowandglitter · 11/12/2022 15:43

I have a few...
Pud, pupper, furbaby, belly, hubs, bubs

M340 · 11/12/2022 15:44

I was following some breastfeeding / pumping groups when DD was smaller and there was a page called 'pumpmommapump' and it made me dry heave.

Also 'mama.' 'You got this mama'
'Mama, you're trying you're best'

BOOOOAAAAKKKKK

ToWhitToWhoo · 11/12/2022 15:45

Fragmentsof2022 · 11/12/2022 14:40

Actually ‘woke’ too- shit word!

Yes, and especially 'wokery' and 'war on woke'.

LeticiaDejeuner · 11/12/2022 15:45

Pretty much everything that's already been mentioned.

Also, adults who talk about going for a wee. I don't need that information! (Also wee means small, unless you are still using a potty).

About 20 years ago, it was fashionable to mis-pronounce the word huge as "hyowge." I hated it so much it still bothers me even though I haven't heard it since about 2005.

Loveinaworldgonemad · 11/12/2022 15:47

It used to be "hun", but that has very strongly been replaced by "Beaut".
Arrrgghhh!!!! I inwardly cringe!!!

LeticiaDejeuner · 11/12/2022 15:50

Oh and the disparaging use of "brigade" for whenever someone is trying to belittle a viewpoint different to their own. Eg "according to the baby led weaning brigade..." as if there is a organised troup of people all wearing matching outfits and slicing fruit in unison.

704703hey · 11/12/2022 15:51

BessieSurtees · 11/12/2022 14:00

Dear me this is not the thread I thought it was I opened it to write Cunt, sorry I hate that word. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I don't like that either!

Many popular words at present like woke, snowflake, optics or Karen.

HamzasHairnet · 11/12/2022 15:57

Hubby/hubs/the hubster
Arsehole
Shitty
Yummy
Plop

Brokendaughter · 11/12/2022 16:01

'Professional'.

If you have to tell me you are a professional, then you have failed to act like one.

ginghamstarfish · 11/12/2022 16:08

moist, orifice, shit, doggo, kiddo (feck off and speak like a grownup)
people using the word 'sourced' when they mean 'bought;
people wrongly using the word 'literally' (almost every use of it is wrong)
people using the word 'source' to mean 'buy'
mostly it's not the words themselves, it when they are not used properly.

WhatTheFlap · 11/12/2022 16:11

Whatatimetobealivetoday · 11/12/2022 15:23

I hate the word “cross” for when someone is annoyed or angry. It makes me cringe, it’s so tame.

Just let loose and tell us you were raging, let it all out 😂😂

Hahahaha EXACTLY! Such a non-emotion you’re either raging or you’re fine 😂

tableanadchairs · 11/12/2022 16:11

belly
hubby
giggles
fab
hosting
gifting

they gie me the shivers/boak

mogsrus · 11/12/2022 16:29

Notimeforaname · 11/12/2022 14:02

And any of those mumma and bubba things 😫

definitely gets me cringing. Toddlers that walk around where I work & for some strange reason are all called Babba.just vile. the child has a name please use it

goingtotown · 11/12/2022 16:41

It is what it is.

Jafffffacakes · 11/12/2022 16:47

Ta
medaling (as in olympics)
hun - grrrr

BedTaker · 11/12/2022 16:53

'My truth' - aka, the way I want things to be or my version of events which could be complete bollocks but if I call it 'my truth' people have to accept it.

JudgeJ · 11/12/2022 16:56

Ijustdontknowanything · 11/12/2022 13:48

Also gifting.

Any noun that suddenly becomes a verb to make it sound sooooooooooo on message. From MN, parentlng, birthing as well.
Invite used as a noun, no it's invitation, invite's just lazy.

I'm sure I'll think of many more and that's even without So at the start of an answer and Fact! or End of! at the end of a sentence, a linguistic two fingered salute.

JudgeJ · 11/12/2022 17:00

gemsgv · 11/12/2022 14:17

Or 'home made' food sold in a café or pub.

'Home baked', ie bought in frozen from a warehouse and shoved in the oven.

JudgeJ · 11/12/2022 17:02

limitedperiodonly · 11/12/2022 15:01

Moorish (when said in relation to food) - gah. I associate it with greed as my sil once sat eating an entire tray of brownies, refusing to offer any to others, and said “sorry I couldn’t help myself, they were so moorish.”

It's more-ish, which makes more sense. I suppose it's okay if you share but not if you scoff the lot.

WHen I saw moorish all I could think of was Othello!

candles22 · 11/12/2022 17:05

"The Mrs",Hubby and anyone referring to their parents as mummy and daddy after the age of 13.

NeedToKnow101 · 11/12/2022 17:07

Mucus

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