Words you don't like, please, ladies?

What was crash? Never heard of that one...

Gransnetters grumble continuously about a number of issues and make all sorts of scathing remarks about single mums, children, young people, people struggling with addiction/debt, etc. etc. Yet it is a fairly lighthearted and harmless thread like this that is labelled "puerile" and accused of making Gransnetters appear like "grumpy old bats"!

Just to add to the alleged puerility, I don't like the words "tasked", "queenie" and "kiddy" or the expression "I'm good".

The word Amazing. So misused.
Ref as to 'the unusual'.
What is there these days we can relate to as the unusual? Where we can truly sit up in 'amazement'.?

I've really enjoyed this thread and have had a much- needed laugh. Loved the 'slips' comment. I've certainly never heard a real make refer to his slips needing a wash! As for old- fashioned ladies' slips, I have a 60 year old friend who continues to wear one. I don't own such a thing...!!strawberrinan has picked 3 of my least favourite words & phrases - nom nom, cheeky and my bad. All totally cringeworthy!! I am also a loather of moist & panties...specially at the same time!!

Yes Missadventure! 'We are pregnant' drives me crazy - 'I am pregnant' or 'We are having a baby'. Men cannot conceive or carry a child and therefore are not pregnant!!!

"Medalling" when applied to sports events. It's a noun not a verb!

Oh and I forgot "hipster" which seems very popular. Back in the 70s, it referred to low-slung trousers but these days seems to refer to what might once have been called a "trendy guy"!! Not that that was any better!!

I agree with you narrowboatnan that "well good" is an annoying modernism, along with "he's done good" instead of "well", but "dead good" has been a phrase I have known for all of my 70 years.

Very unique! Or variations on it - most unique etc.

Yummy Mummy

Trousers are 'pants' in the US and I once overhead someone saying that someone had been out in the cold and was' only wearing pants and a top'. I wondered why he hadn't been arrested! But it does explain the existence of 'panties'. There's no need for anyone in ther UK to say it, though - it sounds too twee, like a starlet with a 'naughty' pursed up kissy mouth and wide-open eyes wearing a baby-doll nightie in a Carry On film.

petalmoore, I must be throwing out thoughts - I have just logged in to comment on this thread and that quite a few of the examples are Americanisms, and you got in first! It does seem that 'panties' is unpopular on this side of the Atlantic, and quite right too.

Don't like the use of Mom or Mommy here either, although on another thread (can't remember which one) somebody said that that usage is standard in (I think) part of the north of England.

I agree about 'moist' being an unpleasant word. It uite put me off some of the late, great Terry Pratchett's books in which his hero was called Moist. Yuck!

My gd is mixed culture, the n...really word is used around her black friends and mixed race friends apparantly they yell my ni..er at one another when they meet.
Crazy, they don't allow white people to say it though and we are called vanilla!!!!!

Boiled wool.

Laters instead of goodbye

I hate being referred to as 'my second wife' - are you collecting them? Will there be a third? I know it's stupid but I prefer number one wife to be called ex wife and me 'my wife' but my dear hubby knows that now!

'Brexit' - particularly when pronounced 'breggsit'. '

Soo many funny ones and ones that I agree with. Very entertaining reading this thread

What on earth is wrong with moist? As in moist soil when potting a plant, a moist cake as opposed to a dry one etc. But I agree about nom nom and also ate Peeps for people! Dont like like hubby or belly or bum. Or gut rot (Id say tummy upset - is that twee?)

Moist is top of the list for being disliked. I don't find it particularly awful, but most do, it seems.

I have a friend whose MuL always regerred to her as 'my son's present wife' . It was a long second marriage after a very short first one but she always said that as if he was going to marry a whole series of them!

I really don't like these
Authored (wrote)
Medalled (won a medal)
Yourself (You)
Myself (me)
Peeve (hate)
Hack (tip)

I used to dislike the term 'toileted' when describing assisting someone to use the lavatory in care homes.

I thought 'peeve' was a minor irritation!

just remembered - Scored referring to anything not in a sporting event