Poorly

[Everythingisnumbersnow]

Aibu to find it really annoying how English people use this word?

Sick. You mean sick. Unwell. Under the weather.

Unless the question is "how did Rangers perform?" and the answer is "lol poorly" it has no place in the English language.

Of course YABU. Nothing wrong with saying 'poorly' if you feel unwell/ill.

I say it. It's so ridiculous to slate and bash the words people use. Have you never heard of regional dialect?

Do you also get annoyed when people say 'mom' (in the UK) too?! I have heard people saying how 'annoying' it is when people say 'mom.' (And claim they should be saying 'mum!'

NEWSFLASH! People across the UK, have different ways of speaking, and use different words to you for the same thing.

And of course poorly (meaning unwell) has a place in the English dictionary. Google it! It says 'poorly,' means 'unwell.'

Get a grip @Everythingisnumbersnow ! 😆

DS was poorly last week. Tired, lethargic, bad throat, really phlgmy. He wasn't sick. "Sick" would mis-lead someone into thinking that he'd vomited. Nor was it an identufiable illness such as a cold or flu.

"Poorly" was a good description of someone not being generally well enough to function for a few days. He had been "under the weather" the previous week, but had managed to cope with school at that point.

A poster on a thread about herpes the other day said that someone had a poorly vulva. That was a new one I've not heard before

It’s a perfectly acceptable word.
TBH it’s not even an issue for me. OTOH Brits saying ‘pissed’ when they mean ‘pissed OFF’, and ‘obligated’ when they mean ‘obliged’, make me want to give them a good slap.

YANBU OP

It's awful.

We had a P4 teacher who happened to be English and we couldn't understand what she meant by being "pawly".

a pp nailed it - it's on par with "hubby". 🤮

"Pissed" irritates me because it often grammatically suggests from the context that the OP was drunk, not annoyed, so leaving out the "off" interferes with immediate understanding as you then have to back track as you realise there's an inconsistent use of an Americanism that's out of context with the rest of their vocabulary.

I'm aware it's regional dialect, but I think it's a horrible word. I never use it. I don't use 'sick' either, unless I mean vomit. I say 'not well' or 'ill' or 'unwell'. Never, ever 'poorly'. I don't even like typing it and I'm aware how ridiculous that sounds.

Well I'm afraid that is where you are wrong

I cannot stand the word.

Hahahaha o God

I literally cannot see anything wrong with this.

At all.

Absolutely!

OP, lots of people use words or phrases that make me clench my jaw, (I work in hospitality so hear accents and expressions from round the world) and people have words that are particular to their area. It doesn’t make that word “wrong”

I come from the West Midlands and we have all sorts of funny expressions, but it’s part of the great tapestry of life. I like hearing different phrases and words.

“Poorly” is a word I grew up with, it tends to mean somebody is unwell, not severely ill, but very much under the weather. I can’t see what’s so bad about it🤷‍♀️

Sick definitely means vomiting to me.
”Poorly” is like an older person’s term, but absolutely fine to use.

Add 'sobbing' to 'poorly'.

I use it to describe children who are unwell but not adults. So I might ask my 8 year old if he's feeling poorly but I'd ask dh if he was feeling unwell. Never really thought about it till now.

I also don't see anything wrong with the word 'hubby.' I say it myself.

I do get amused though when people get soooo wound up by 'hubby,' 'poorly,' and 'mom.' 😂

Like calm down, and chill out! Not everyone uses the same words for things. I expect some words YOU use irritate some people too!

@Everythingisnumbersnow poorly sometimes I could say a lot worse

Funny that, because I feel the same about people using the word 'sick' instead of 'poorly'!

I'm sick sounds so very pappy and pathetic to my ears! Poorly doesn't!

It's so infantile. It makes me cringe to see the NHS website and actual doctors referring to "tummies" because they have to cater to the lowest common denominator.

I'm with the op. It just makes me think of ineffectual dinner ladies at school.

Yabu. Poorly is the (an) opposite of well.

No poorly is, as above, tummy-style baby speak

Just a thought why is revealing about the word while I'm thinking about football

Lovely to see one of these threads about a word used in England rather than Ireland or Scotland for a change.