Words you don't like (light hearted)

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!

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.

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

obese

Glut
Phlegm
Snot
Hawk (as in spitting/coughing)

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

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

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.

Hate also ' wear and tear' ?

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!)

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.

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

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

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!

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.

Ah, thank you, FarNorth.
I'm quite put off that word now.

My dictionary, Chambers, gives the pronunciation of "halcyon" as "hal-si-on". I don't think I have ever used the word myself.

I hate "crap" and "crappy" and the expression "it's a given". I always want to ask, "A given what?"

I like 'flibbertigibbet' - not sure if I've spelled that right.
'Gallivanting' is another good one.
I hate the word 'busty' to describe a well-proportioned lady.

I can’t abide ‘ain’t’, my sister and my DH say it to wind me up.
I love ‘cwtch’ and ‘snuggle’ and another word I’m too ladylike to list.

Hun, Babe, Snuck, Poorly, Fat, a few of my pet hates.

Wellness. Discharge. ‘You guys’ Any version of night, spelt NITE. Also moist.?

you never hear them refer to girls as their " little women "

No, because they call their girls their "little princess" ?. But equally, you never hear them call their boys their "little prince" ?

But worse than any of that, in my opinion, is something that I've seen creeping in, possibly from the US or Australia, and that's calling their child "my little" or "my small", with no qualifying noun <sigh>

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

But that is what the join of two fabrics is called. It's not a nickname, or a slang word. What do you say, then, if your trouser seam comes apart? How would you describe what has happened without using that word?

Gusset is my pet hate too and fur baby (though I love cats).

Quirky. I flinch every time the word is used...usually in relation to a house.

And the expression 'it ticks all the boxes'....how many times do I have to hear it.

My adult son hates the word 'nippy' in relation to the weather and how cold it is... and has done since a child, it's quite funny to see his reaction, which is almost rage!