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Words you don't like (light hearted)

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phoenix Wed 13-Mar-19 19:13:03

Evening all, and good wishes to you.

I have been thinking about words, generally speaking I love words, such as "concupiscence" and "nidification" (good one to use in a wedding speeech!) I also have a certain fondness for "frock" blush

But there are also words that really grate!

Gusset

Hubby

Turgid

Tumescent

Lounge (as in the room, not the act of lounging!wink)

What are yours?

FarNorth Thu 14-Mar-19 12:18:55

I understood 'grochle' (not grockle) to be a fairly hefty shifting of mucus/phlegm in the throat, possibly resulting in a hawk/spit onto the ground.

I dislike the word seam, including when it is part of seamstress. Seem is okay though.

Greyduster Thu 14-Mar-19 11:41:10

Harrigran I used that word to my grandson the last time he stayed here:
“Nanny please may I have my phone for five minutes?”
“When you have been up and done your ablutions!” He hadn’t the faintest idea what I was talking about! It’s a hangover from my military days!

Floradora9 Thu 14-Mar-19 10:39:12

Mothers referring to thier sons as " little man " you never hear them refer to girls as their " little women " .

harrigran Thu 14-Mar-19 09:04:05

Loathe 'you guys'.
Innit.
Really toe curling :- ablutions, DH will use it to wind me up, works every time.

Greyduster Thu 14-Mar-19 08:36:22

I love pusillanimous, tertiary, carnage and muscular.
I hate frock; bust (as in ‘bust size’); panties; crap; and any word that is serially mispronounced, like jewellery and nuclear.

BlueSapphire Thu 14-Mar-19 07:59:16

Love the French word for twilight - le crepuscule. Did French Romantic poetry at A level and came across it, and it has stuck in my mind; there was a line something like the smell of the eucalyptus trees at twilight, and quite like the word describing that too - terebinthe, (although looking that up now it means turpentine!)

1inamillion Thu 14-Mar-19 07:04:43

Hate also ' wear and tear' ?

1inamillion Thu 14-Mar-19 07:03:03

What a great thread Phoenix and agree with hubby and most of the choices already made, particularly-
Moist
You guys/guys
Panties
Slacks
Ace and Epic

I love -
Conflab
Any onomatopoeic words ( hope I've spelt that correctly, it doesn't look right) - like chomp.

Marelli Thu 14-Mar-19 07:02:55

The term 'suck it up' is horrid, too. ?

oldgoat Thu 14-Mar-19 06:20:11

I growl every time a television presenter refers to people from the UK as 'Brits'

Marelli Thu 14-Mar-19 05:18:04

Glut
Phlegm
Snot
Hawk (as in spitting/coughing)

tiredoldwoman Thu 14-Mar-19 04:56:57

obese

Coolgran65 Thu 14-Mar-19 04:26:48

I hate the words .....
Panties
Phlegm
Babe
Pus
Turd
Stout - as in overweight
Delish
Fabulishiousness

Love the words....
Sheugh - as in a ditch with water.
at the side of a country road.
Angel
Cherish
Tinkle
Silken
Stocious

absent Thu 14-Mar-19 03:57:27

Kalu The envelope that is pushed is the air pressure outside a plane, although I rather doubt the the people who use this expression realise that. It is neither stationary nor stationery.

Marydoll Thu 14-Mar-19 00:27:54

I also dislike the word lavatory
There was a Gent's lavatory, in our town when I was growing up, it was eventually closed down due to the unsavoury going ons in it.

Unsavoury, I like that! grin

Chewbacca Thu 14-Mar-19 00:18:05

Isn't it odd that the words most disliked are those that tend to refer to the nether regions! grin

I quite like "vestibule" but people don't seem to have them these days. They have "hallways" and "porches".

Marydoll Thu 14-Mar-19 00:14:32

Dislike crotch

Love serendipity
scunnered

Jangran99 Wed 13-Mar-19 23:59:14

I've always heard a throaty cough called a cruckle here in Scotland.
I hate pimple.
I love the word fritillary

Jalima1108 Wed 13-Mar-19 23:32:13

Grockles are tourists to Devon and Emmets are tourists to Cornwall - aka the plastic mac and sandal brigade.

MissAdventure Wed 13-Mar-19 23:29:09

I loved 'grockle' which I only heard in Scotland.
Its a throaty cough, I think?

Jalima1108 Wed 13-Mar-19 23:26:20

FarNorth there was an Australian song which included lots of (Australian) girls' names ending in 'ine' or 'ene' but I can't remember who sang it.

Jalima1108 Wed 13-Mar-19 23:25:15

halcyon
I must try and casually drop it into conversations now.
MissA try not to gush, though, when you do
wink

FarNorth Wed 13-Mar-19 23:23:08

I like most words with 'amp' in them, example is very nice.
I never liked names ending in 'ene' or 'ine' or even 'een', like Eileen, Marlene etc.

FarNorth Wed 13-Mar-19 23:19:04

Armpit - I use the Scottish word - oxter.

MissAdventure Wed 13-Mar-19 23:01:33

grin oh, very droll.
I like droll.