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To ask what words you really hate?!

288 replies

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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Notcopingwithmum · 12/12/2022 00:04

I hate 'the big day' referring to Christmas. Can't. Bloody. Stand. It.

Georgeandzippyzoo · 12/12/2022 00:09

Furbaby - I love my dog but he is most definitely not my furbaby!

Robots1Humans0 · 12/12/2022 00:19

‘And just like that’
’unprecedented’

urgghhhhhhhhh

yoyo1234 · 12/12/2022 00:52

Resilent/resilience I feel it's often used when the school or school management is blaming the victim of bullying.

PawPaworPapaya · 12/12/2022 00:59

"Nom Nom Nom" or "nommy". It can be spoken or written, and absolutely disgusts me either way.

AlwaysLatte · 12/12/2022 01:01

Grass roots. Ok if you're talking about GRASS!!

AlwaysLatte · 12/12/2022 01:02

Definitely 'gifting'. Our local bus company now mostly sells tickets online. You have to have an app to buy them (which none of the drivers know how to use, incidentally) and parents buy tickets for their kids on their own app then 'gift' them to their kids. What kind of a fucking 'gift' is that? A bloody bus ticket? That's got to be the worst fucking gift ever. Wankers.
Definitely!
Bus gift wankers!

Luxurysleuth007 · 12/12/2022 01:06

‘Enjoy’ as in enjoy a generous 10% discount on purchases made today. I fucking detest it

‘Meal’ when describing going out for dinner. It must be a working class northern thing, we had a meal/ let’s go for a meal / going to X for a meal. Eugh.

AlwaysLatte · 12/12/2022 01:07

Tummy (when used by an adult about themselves)Tummybutton (fuck off)
When I was a child I wasn't allowed to say 'belly' as it was considered rude, and I still say tummy ache, rather than belly ache, due to habit, but I do realise that it sounds childish!

MardyHa · 12/12/2022 01:09

Bum, bridezilla, transitioning, ‘you do realise’ / ‘I don’t know who needs to hear this’ (I don’t know why you need to type it then.)

twinklystar23 · 12/12/2022 01:28

Once read one of those sex books which referred to the mans bit as "the verge" think it was the perfumes garden. Really set my teeth on edge😬
Never heard it referred to it before or since.

Though when driving along and see the sign "soft verge" it does make me 😁

Whatifthegrassisblue · 12/12/2022 01:35

Moist

chappysays · 12/12/2022 01:49

Funds.

Really pisses me off ''Do you have the funds?''

''If funds will allow''

AngryAngryAngry

TildaRae · 12/12/2022 01:55

‘Pack up’ instead of packed lunch.

‘Biking’ instead of cycling

strugglingdaily · 12/12/2022 03:01

Not a day goes by.
They are loved all the world.

Smallonesaremorejuicy · 12/12/2022 03:13

My bad Two words but so annoying.

miraveile · 12/12/2022 04:32

Topping - in any context I hate it

Flavour - I don't mind it in the context of crisps but saying something like " what flavour of icing" is wrong. It should be type. Flavour to me
Means salt and vinegar, cheese and onion. As these are flavours. Not types.

<I'm weird>

TofuBurgerAnyone · 12/12/2022 04:54

"Multiple", instead of saying "lots of" or "many".

Mercurial123 · 12/12/2022 05:09

Little cry
Tummy
Cringe
Shudder
Hols
Chocs
Mean
Picky Bits
Hubby
Chrimbo

Swimmingistoocold · 12/12/2022 05:22

yoyo1234 · 12/12/2022 00:52

Resilent/resilience I feel it's often used when the school or school management is blaming the victim of bullying.

Hard agree!

Like my child needs to be more resilient to put up with being beaten up every day? Yup I’ve been there too. The teachers can fuck right off!!!

Swimmingistoocold · 12/12/2022 05:26

‘Meal’. My aunt keeps saying we should go out for a meal. Be more specific!

“should of” and “could of”. My teens say them all the time, then roll my eyes when I correct them. I would never give a job to anyone that had such poor grammar.

But ‘hubby’ is always the worst still, obvs.

okcurtains · 12/12/2022 06:02

Source as a verb.

"I sourced the furniture from Fb marketplace and eBay". No, you found it or you bought it, you utter wankstain.

howdyhey · 12/12/2022 07:39

I can't stand 'buddy'. Especially when used in a passive aggressive social media comment in an attempt to belittle someone else.

Doingtheboxerbeat · 12/12/2022 07:58

Mine are all American expressions, sorry 😳
Panties
Pants as in trousers
Fanny as in bottom( I also hate this in this context)

And the normal ones such as nibbles and picky bits and gusset.

GeneratedRandomly · 12/12/2022 09:20

Vile
Munching/munch
Brought because it usually means bought these days
Fry off/cook off - just bloody fry it or cook it or reduce it or whatever off you are doing, or better still just sod off and be a wanker somewhere else.

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