Overused Words.

Let’s ‘unpack’ this problem 😏

‘How are you’ ? To someone you have never met before. Especially when someone is being interviewed.

Glow up.
Red flag.
On point.

Kiddo - the ghastly term for children we seem to have inherited from the US

You know - used half a dozen times in a conversation. No I don't know because I'm waiting for you to tell me

Oh my days - what's that all about?

Whatever - as in "I can't be bothered to discuss it anymore"

It maybe a tad pedantic to mention but
Shouldn't this discussion be in
Pedants Corner ??

I find 'why oh why' (the phrase, not the poster!) over-dramatic. I can picture someone with the back of their hand across their forehead saying it.

Existential is a word I’ve noticed cropping up everywhere lately.
Everything apparently is not just a threat or crisis but an existential calamity, especially of course with regard to ‘climate change’.

Unique
...especially when prefaced with "quite" or "very"

It is what it is.
Well it might be what it appears to be but I need clear evidence and it might be different in a few days time.

welbeck

It maybe a tad pedantic to mention but
Shouldn't this discussion be in
Pedants Corner ??

No, I don’t think so.

As the OP, I just thought it was a ‘chat’ type of thing.

Tasked - as in " I was tasked to make a cake for the fete".
Hubby
The Wife ( instead of my wife)

Mine aren’t overused but are like nails on a blackboard .
Hubster
Kiddies
Chrimbo
Holibobs

I agree with
Hubby
Holibobs
Crimbo

also Amazing. We once had a waitress that said Amazing after almost every item we ordered!

Love, love, love. Surely one love will suffice? Or if not, perhaps adore will cover your overwhelming emotion?

One I’ve started to hear a lot lately, as both a verb and a noun - unalive.

What’s that all about? I appreciate that dead now seems way too strong a word for some to use or hear (“there’s a deceased cat on Station Road”) but unalive? Really? As for unaliveing someone…

Oh dear, I’m getting into Grumpy Old Woman mode now. Hold me back, somebody!

Astitchintime

Turned round in conversation as in “ and he turned round and said xxxx and then his wife turned round and said xxx “.

Is that a Lancashire expression?

Smash as in Smash it, smash the gangs.
So beginning of a sentence.
Like - usually used up North
Do- everything’s a do. A big do, a little do, going having a do with them. Again up North

Unbelievable!
Americanisms especially when used by older people eg
from the get go
on the weekend
would have….would have
eg If I would have seen him I would have spoken to him.

Mt61

Astitchintime

Turned round in conversation as in “ and he turned round and said xxxx and then his wife turned round and said xxx “.

Is that a Lancashire expression?

Not in this part of Lancashire.

Not much annoys me, I'm just glad if I understand what they're saying!
That aside, "chrimbo" and "literally" as disliked above - I agree (theoretically).

Mt61

Smash as in Smash it, smash the gangs.
So beginning of a sentence.
Like - usually used up North
Do- everything’s a do. A big do, a little do, going having a do with them. Again up North

'Like' is not confined to the North . I taught students from all over the world, and most of them use it a lot.

'It was like literally awesome'. 'I was like 'yeah', and he was like 'really?'

Like, as in - he said like he was like going to the shop like.
So - at the start of a sentence.
You know, as in - well you know we went to see you know the film and you know it wasn't good.

“Of an evening”
“Should of”
“Tar very much”
“My Jeff” or whatever their name is
“Hubby, Hubster, the wife, my better half”
“At the end of the day”
“Oh my days”
And
“So” at the beginning of any sentence!

Gawd, I’m a right grumpy old woman!

"Slapped down" as in, "Badenoch slapped down Starmer at PM Questions. Slammed makes me equally grumpy. Both sound aggressive and childish in equal measures.

Let me just get comfy with me cardi over me nightie .... Ghastly abbreviations!

As for "uni"; if you can't give the place its proper name, you shouldn't be allowed to go there.

And then there's "cuppa" .... aaaaaaagh!!!

‘unprecedented’ seems to have gone out of fashion recently but made me scream during the pandemic.

Awesome
Babe
Hun