We humans are so interesting to ourselves that we have plenty of sciences studying us – from our biology to our behavior and speech. Due to these studies, nearly everything we do or think has a certain name.
For example, did you know that disliking certain words is called word aversion? Well, if you didn't, you do now. Plus, you have a full list of examples of the words people feel averse to, which were shared on one of the r/ask threads. So, let's jump into this list and see if we also feel gross about these words!
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Unalive.
What is wrong with saying killed or diied? Misspelling is intentional by the way to avoid the BP censorship.
Nothing is wrong with the words, Glix, but you've got a hole in one with the reason for your misspellings. "Unalived" came into parlance partially due to advertisers on sites not wanting words like KILL or DIE or MURDER or SUICIDE or DRÚGS - or words for human genitals - to come up on the sites they advertise on. They say it makes people associate their brand with those concepts (ludicrous, but that's corpospeak for you.) It also arose partially (and in an a-hole manner, I imagine) because of the rise of people accepting the concept of "trigger words" and "trigger concepts" for people who had been traumatized or abused. So (I think) a bunch of a-holes on Reddit started using "unalive" because "we can't say KILL or SUICIDE, that might TRIGGER SOMEONE!!!!!1" (* it could be the a-hole-ness wasn't a part of it, but knowing Reddit, I imagine it was.)
Load More Replies...It is such a disrespectful thing to prioritize false "PC" concepts over the tragic death of people... ESPECIALLY when it comes to suicide... God what an insult... You would rather demean the memory of the people who suffer injustice like that to appease the psychopathic unfeeling companies with virtue signalling people (Who I imagine are EXACTLY like Ashley from the Boys series) forcing this s**t? For what??? their AD money???
I think this one came about to avoid censorship, triggers and demonitisation
On Youtube, there are a bunch of words content creators can't say anymore. Suicide, murder and many more.
They can say them. There are rumours that the AI would stifle their videos and ad companies would abandon them... Some might abandon them sure but it is not a measure of success. As for the AI filter rumour... It was either fake or the AI was adjusted. Plenty of YouTubers say all manner of words and get away with it. Both good and bad ppl... A bad one is logan paul who streamed a victim of suicide...Then scammed kids... Now is selling food for kids under false pretenses with mr beast. Still gets ads... My conclusion is...The companies ACT PC...But if there is money THEY DON'T CARE! So small content creators are terrorized with bans and other things and the literal psychopaths thrive... ps: If you have kids or niblings...Please do not let them watch those guys. Not only do they target scams to kids mr beast specifically knowingly surrounded himself by not ONE NOT TWO but THREE predators...One called Delware after the city he was banned from as he molested a preteen girl. SICK...
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Influencer.
You'd need to offer the stakee a fireproof selfie sticks for live streaming.
Load More Replies...Am I the only one who thinks that influencers are the symptom, the people who follow them are the disease.
These people don't influence me, only mindless spineless idiots would be influenced by these idiots.
Bae
“Oh my god i miss my bae so much🥺🥺🥺”
STFU.
Or when 'Bro' is pronounced as 'Bra'. I'm old. I don't need this kind of stress.
I secretly like "Bruh"...PLEASE DONT JUDGE ME! It mean "Bro what?" It is a perfect phonetic representation of that fundamental concept of bewilderment and confusion over something mildly odd and unexpected!
Load More Replies...Every generation comes up with silly slang words that make other people roll their eyes. For a while they are 'cool' to some and tolerated by others. Then they become dated and mocked. Then they become words written into books/shows to help establish the time frame. Like every 50s era show using words like 'gee' and 'swell' so we know it's old timey Mayberry and not 2024. TLDR: As you get older you just chuckle and move on as you wait for the next one.
I'm sittin' on the dock of the bae Watching the tide roll away I'm just sittin' on the dock of the bae Wastin' time
Many of those who spend at least a part of their time online know that the internet hates the word “moist.” Funnily enough, it doesn’t appear on our list, but we have many others that people despise.
But why do people hate “moist” so much? Scientists say it’s because of the word’s associations with bodily functions and parts. Some people argue they don’t like its phonics, but then they don’t have the same reaction to the words that sound kind of similar, like “foist” or “rejoiced.” Plus, when “moist” is paired with food words, people aren’t as disgusted by it.
"preggers" makes my neck twinge.
I was old when I was in Target several years ago and saw they had Christmas and birthday cards for "my baby daddy."
Load More Replies...Oh my God yes kiddos and doggos! When did this stupidity start?
Load More Replies...No, no. That's not how it's spelled. It's spelled prangent, pegrent, pregonate, pregante, pergenat, or pregananant. SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EShUeudtaFg
I laughed hard but deep down i dread them becoming parents XD
Load More Replies...Sounds like something a small child says because it is hard word to pronounce for them.
Hate it when people shorten things needlessly, like saying "preesh" instead of "I appreciate it". Lazy m**********r, just say "thanks".
And there's me thinking that is was short for precious. Thinks of Gollum saying "Preesh, my preesh".
Having never heard "preesh" before, it was at this moment that I realized I'm old...
Looking at you Australia. At some point if you are wearing Tracky dacks on your way to Maccas after stopping at the bottleo... you just have to admit you are no long speaking adult English
Not to generalize, but americans are mostly guilty of this - I remember a scene from Black Hawk Down when the main character (excuse my bad memory, I've no idea what his name is) goes to register for deployment to Mogadishu and the officer or whatever goes "we call it the Mogue"... I was going wtf in my head
I've grown so weary of these. Half the time I don't even know what they're supposed to mean. I had to google what " nepo baby" was.
Alpha male.
Glix, A man has to have a lot of T to be an A. Without the testosterone it's difficult to manifest enough aggression to be an alpha. /J
Load More Replies...As an actual wolf, I can assure everyone that the whole "alpha male" thing in wolves isn't true. Some researcher made it up. He admitted it. So not even WOLVES have "alpha males" XD
Load More Replies...Ohh yeh well I am one of those sigma males...NO NO OMEGA MALES! I am better than all of you! Yhe as cringy as it sounds...
Some Redditors say that the hate for this word is either a cultural or internet joke, which has been referenced in TV shows like “How I Met Your Mother” or “Dead Like Me.” People aren’t as bothered by the word as they claim to be for attention or the joke’s sake. After all, the word itself is normal; it doesn’t even have a negative connotation, just unpleasant associations.
Interestingly, the phenomenon of people’s hatred towards certain words has a name – word aversion. In some sources, it is also called logomisia. Basically, it’s when people feel distaste for the sound or sight of a word because it feels redundant, overused, or simply unpleasant to them.
Vacay. I’m overcome with an urge to destroy every time I hear it.
What in gods name is wrong with me?
Any sensible person knows the proper term is hollibobs (gakkkk)
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"littles" and "boy mom"
I hate them.
I hate the phrase and I also hate the behavior of the actual boy moms XD
Load More Replies...Crotch gobblin really bothers me. Child is a perfectly suitable word and shorter to type
This is a word that didn't exist and was needed, so I'm going to have to disagree with you. But feel free to invent a word meaning "nieces and nephews" and present it to the world
Load More Replies...Kiddo gives me serious creepy feelings. Idk why it just feels dangerous.
Load More Replies...Girl dad too. I've started hearing that one more. Just say you're a parent.
Panties.
Something about it sounds so skeevy. JUST SAY UNDERWEAR 🤢🤢🤢
Eta I had no idea so many people were so passionately devisive about this word lol.
I also loathe "panties" as a word. I agree with the OP - it sounds skeezy. As an Aussie, we say "undies", which is definitely the superior term. 😁
Hehehehehehe ya'll also came up with budgie smugglers so I'll upvote ya
Load More Replies...Knickers are women's underwear. Pants/boxers for male. Underwear refers to any kind of undergarment.
Weird one this, given that underwear is a generic term for a whole plethora of different undergarments designed for any gender. Panties refers to a particular type of female-orientated underpants, so is simply more specific and accurate. I cringe when I see someone write "a pair of underwear".
As a female, I have no issue with "panties". I don't feel demeaned or anything using the word. Because if OP is gonna have an issue with "panties", they ought to also have an issue with "boxers", "jockies", "tighty-whities", and "briefs". And "thong" and "g-string". (Hey, why do men get so many more terms for their underwear?! XD )
Load More Replies...It means "don't let your undergarments get entangled within your crack" LOL
Load More Replies...Reminds me, I can not for the life of me say rag when talking about a wash cloth, it feels so dirty to me idk why
I think a washrag is for washing your car or something kind of dirty outside. Washcloth is the term for the one you wash your face or body with. There. That settles that.
Load More Replies...But “skeevy” means “creepy”. (Don’t you just love these differences??)
Load More Replies...I literally opened this article JUST so I could upvote this one. I hate that word - more than people hate "moist".
A professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Chicago, Jason Riggle says that logomisia is similar to phobias – people with word aversion are disgusted by certain words instead of being simply annoyed by them, basically having a visceral reaction.
Apparently, words like the mentioned “moist,” “vomit,” “mucus” and “phlegm,” to mention a few, gross quite a lot of people out. Again, most of the time this is because they have associations with something gross, like bodily fluids.
Here, people on Reddit were discussing how the word “phlegm” might be even grosser than the infamous “moist,” because the latter at least has some positive connotations, while the former doesn’t.
Toxic. It seems everything is toxic these days: relationships, bosses, employees, teachers, books and friends; everything except actual poisons.
I’m going to add my own: trauma. People say that have trauma for Every. Single Thing.
Hyperbole is king the past several years. A random selection of youtube video titles would be a good example.
That's toxic, insane, unhinged, viral, hilarious, incredible, etc!
Load More Replies...There are people calling their parents toxic for not allowing any pod- eat challenges from tiktok
Try this for improved accuracy and effectiveness: replace “toxic” with “immature”
Dam right! We got so many words with many degrees and adjacent meanings that we dont use... Unpleaset,Bad,Offputting,Vile,Evil... and as you say immature! Toxic still has a place. We should use it a bit less and the others a bit more!
Load More Replies...oh and just add "cleanse regime" to that as tho we don't have livers and kidneys that do this job all the time
This is the best one on here. Worded beautifully! Yes, our population has become quite “toxic” as a result of the media television and egocentric personalities…however d***s are acceptable, smoking weed us “cool”..drinking is “cool”..despite the fact that we have a choice NOT to start the process and we can always work on ending the cycle??
Woke being used in a professional setting.
Woke being used in any setting to mean anything other than the past tense of waking up from sleep.
I fully support the original usage of woke, but not what the MAGAts turned it into.
Load More Replies...I hate this word in the "new" meaning. Like, it makes me think we're living in the Matrix or something and being "woke" means we just got unplugged.
Woke whenever it’s about something whereby we empathise or want better for someone other than ourself. And it’s usually from the right wing lot, not the left. Or maybe I’m just biased? 🤷🏻♀️ It pees me off right royally.
Yiu know I still have no idea what it's meant to mean, so obviously not an important word in my world.... im so glad about that
The original meaning was to be aware of social and political issues, particularly those affecting African Americans. I don’t know when it changed to being more of an insult.
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Furbaby, away and sh*te it’s a dog or cat (I adore both).
I adore my pets. They are part of my family. I never wanted children. My beautiful pets are NOT babies. Furbaby is creepy somehow. Does the human child have some sort of severe Hirsutism? Do I need to know about it, in order to support this adult?
"And yet if I call their kids 'Skin-dogs' I get in trouble and am no longer allowed to work as an obstetrician." -source unknown
If you’re Australian it’s probably OK but over here lying doggo means keeping out of sight
Load More Replies...Derogatory term as it implies owner of said cat or dog have a pet when what they really want is a child. Not so.
I disagree categorically. This is absolutely NOT true for every pet owner. I have four pets, two cats and two dogs. I haven't wanted children a single point in my life. I don't have cats and dogs because "what I really want is a child" - what a terrible stereotype. I have cats and dogs because they are loving, loyal, amazing, and I just like cats and dogs. "Furbaby" isn't a derogatory term. I embrace it. I have four furbabies. I don't want any human babies and never have.
Load More Replies...We refer to our cats as "fursharks" particularly around mealtime when they start circling.
I feel a little weird when people refer to me as my geckos' "mom" like for 7 of the lil fckers their *actual moms* are also in the house! Also when my male geckos inevitably start seeing my hands as an acceptable mate, I am DEFINITELY not "mom" to them.
A vet once kept referring to me as my cat’s mom. Weirdo. I’m his older sister who is taking care of him, duh.
Load More Replies...I refer to my dogs as "kitten" or "pittie kitty"! My male is brindle (black on a bright orange / red base) like a tiger... my female is black like a panther... thus, "Kittens" 😂. The "tiger" is also known as "Sock Dragon"... as he will collect and hoard every sock he can find! 🤣
For some reason, I hate saying "doggo" instead of dog. What's wrong with the word "dog?"
That’s why people working in journalism and especially marketing have to be wary that some people simply can’t stand certain words and it influences their behavior as consumers. For instance, they might be inclined to not purchase a product if its description, packaging, or marketing includes a word they feel averse to.
For a second, let’s come back to the notorious “moist.” Research has found that if this word is featured on hygiene products, consumers are less likely to buy them because it repels them. At the same time, if the same word was on food packages, people wouldn’t be as repulsed by it, because in this context the word has a non-repulsive meaning.
Again, it proves that while sometimes word aversion is real, in other cases it is more context-based.
Every time someone says INITIATIVE in a work meeting a baby seal dies.
I keep an old D20 in my pocket for this reason. Either toss it to them & say nothing happens until you roll or post a image & say same thing. I'll not mention what happens if they roll a 1.
Along with thinking out of the box, going forward and about forty other tedious utter cobblers words in corporate speak. Great for b******t bingo in meetings but very little else
The worse thing about these words is that you just know that nothing will change, except the words..
Load More Replies...For whatever reason, "touch base" has me rolling my eyes. Hate the turn of phrase. Do I look like an athlete sitting over here in my creaking, cheap-a$$ office chair with the broken arm foam that pinches my elbow each time I lean on it? I am no more going to "touch base" than I am going to fly to the moon.
I would love to touch base with someone, preferably upside the head with a stapler....but that's just me.
Load More Replies...Sounds like someone needs to synergize their connectitude with linkativity. Mondays, amirite?
I'll have to circle back to you on your spit balling.
Load More Replies...Mine was always "reach out". Why not just "please call Mrs. Jones" or "please contact Mrs. Jones.". Every single time I heard "reach out" the old Four Tops song would spring into my head.
I’m sure I’ll get downvoted or ignored for this but: people who hate these phrases either have a truly dumb boss who uses words to obfuscate their incompetence or they themselves are totally incompetant and are annoyed by people trying to get s**t done
My idiot boss likes to use the phrase, "What's the 'so what' of this?" I want to shove his "so what" where the sun doesn't shine. I am deliberately difficult with him because he speaks what he thinks is "business speech", but he just sounds like an idiot.
Let's take this offline so we can bring our arms around the initiative and decide who's wheelhouse it belongs in. From an actual meeting I sat through.
Rizz.
Because I don't want to be associated with that word.
Apparently it's short for charisma. Used by people who are short on charisma.
Load More Replies...Random Person: "My drip gave me rizz!" Young People: "You're awesome!" Old People: "Please go see a doctor before it's too late!" /J
When I hear someone speak this way, in my mind their IQ drops by about 50 points.
It sounds too much like jizz, so it always comes off as skeevy to me. Like someone thinks they have charisma, but really they're grooming teenagers.
Skibidi Toilet Rizz...Jesus Christ, what is going on with today's generation's language?
Just tell them that piece of slang is old and outdated. It was even featured in a song from the 30s called "Puttin' up the Rizz"
Daddy was made too inappropriate.
Right. For some reason it sounds really stupid and infantile. It sounds like the daddy IS a baby, not the father OF a baby.
Load More Replies...The only girl that can call me Daddy is my daughter, who occasionally still does at 43 years old. Period.
Only when it's an adult saying it too another adult who is in fact NOT their daddy! Mommy also for same reasons.
Daddy is also what us southerners call our fathers. Doesn't matter if we are male or female he is Daddy to us.
I disagree with this in the sense that it needs to be given back to the children. No one should ever refer to their romantic partner, or financial beneficiary, as "Daddy". It's disgusting. Unless you're addressing a small child and talking about their father, or possibly reminiscing with your siblings about your own dad and you fondly remember him as Daddy.
Mommy too, although to a lesser extent. Like let me just call my Mom "Mommy".
Still, it’s normal for people to have words they dislike, even if it’s seemingly for no proper reason. This list is full of examples of them, from kind of weird ones to completely understandable ones.
Knowing that a lot of aversion to words comes from context, it’s quite likely that these people heard/saw these words being used in an unpleasant context and it drove them to hatred, which is absolutely normal. After all, without it, this entertaining list wouldn’t have been possible, so at least some goodness was put into the world with them, right?
Do you have a word you hate seemingly for no reason? Share with us in the comments!
Synergy.
As a company that word for us is a deal breaker. We have a rule where once uttered during any meeting we get up and leave.
Let's replace it with collaboration or partnership or teamwork (so last year). Mmh, perhaps not. How about boogie on down.
Let's replace it with "Deathwhale" and just see what happens.
Load More Replies...My motto for the year has bee: 'Let's synergize our ideation to maximize the bandwidth of our paradigm shift.' Could someone please tell me what it means?
I just know it as that AI in Jem, the '80s cartoon. Yeah, I'm old.
Synergy has a specific meaning. It doesn't mean 'work together'. Business execs really need to actually read some books instead of just attending conferences given by other execs who are also illiterate.
Networking (shudder).
Just the word is new(er). The concept of making social connections to further your career or business has been around forever. Think of "It's who you know..." that has been around for ages. I think the cringe with 'networking' is how it gets overused by people who sound like douchebags saying it.
Orientate - just seems like one too many syllables.
I like "orient ", but I'm lazy. It means find the east when the sun rises.
This is the actual way to use this word! As a nurse, I always cringe with disgust when another nurse is giving me hand-off report and refers to a patient as "orientated." B***h, the patient is either oriented or disoriented. Using "Orientated" just makes people seem uneducated. Same with when they say "statting" instead of "satting" when referring to O2 Saturation... it's SATuration, not STATuration. For f***s sake!
Load More Replies...It comes from them shorting orientation to orientate as opposed to just orient. It's oddly conjugated. And while it's become more common I've known quite a few older people to use it and I think it's because they were never corrected when they did it the first time but it drove me nuts
Are you sure? I think that if anyone is using "orientate" as a noun it should be okay to unalive them. "Orient" is a verb, and "orientation" is a noun.
Load More Replies...I desperately want to say no, but apparently "irregardless" is considered an actual word now, so all bets are off.
Load More Replies...It’s backformed. “Orient”, the verb, becomes “orientation” as a noun. There are many other “-ation” nouns that derive from “-ate” verbs (such as “mutate”/“mutation”, “ruminate”/“rumination”, “vacate”/“vacation”), so some people who were unfamiliar with “orient” assumed that the verb form was “orientate”. It’s become common in usage and so is no longer considered “wrong”, but it’s an absolutely unnecessary redundancy.
Next thing you know, it'll be "conversated" about...
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"Utilize." Please just say "use" and save some syllables.
And when did 'price' become 'price point'?? I mean what the hell? Sorry, I meant what the hell point?
Lizze, The term price point has been around for ages. But it's a business term not usually used by folks not planning the marketing of products. -- "All you need to keep in mind is that a price point refers to a hypothetical, potential price. For example, you might predict that you'll be able to sell 1000 T-shirts at a £5 price point. Whereas the price is the actual price it sells or sold at."
Load More Replies...I would use a spoon to eat a yoghurt but I would utilise a spoon to help taking a tyre off of my bike to fix a puncture.
Utilize is a perfectly fine word, when used correctly. You use a pen to write something down. you utilize it to prop your keyboard up when one the feet breaks.
Oh Lord yes! Bugs me almost as much as when people say "on a daily basis" when they could say just "daily". Argghhh.
Every word has a specific meaning all it's own, and although some are synonyms of other words, the precise meaning is different. Just using an alternative word doesn't necessarily make you sound smarter, especially if you misuse it.
Hubby 🤢.
Right! This is how my notes have been addressed for 18 years (of the 21 years we've been together) and I'm not f*****g about to stop now. And yes, to all those haters, it's definitely signed "wifey." Granted, it's not something we really ever say out loud in conversation. I don't know how many other 38 y/o have been in a relationship for 21 years... so, maybe it's one of the many things all those divorced people are missing.
Load More Replies...When i read hubby, for whatever reason, i instantly have a picture of some obese, tattooed, chainsmoking woman living in a trailer in my head. Its not noce but its the truth
My son drives me nuts he always drives me nuts he always says MY WIFE, he never says her name.
Ick, gives me the ick.
I assume anyone who says something "gives them the ick" is actually 5 years old because it sounds like something a child that age would say.
That's just when their brains stopped developing.
Load More Replies...Again I think it's overused. I think it's okay to hear some things icky when that's really what it is. And it's the word that is appropriate. However icky is a little different
I'm just amazed that this phrase it's still around. I thinks it's really 90s, so surprised the kids don't think it's too old to still be in use.
I love ick. Especially when you got some type of weird virus going around. I call it "the ick."
😆 I just used this in the comment to another post. I so often no idea which group of BPs I belong to!!
Naughty, waifu, husbando. i feel SO gross just saying it.
Don't know what the second one is and can only guess what type of prat would use the third...
Some anime culture. Some use it ironically for a laugh... Others you stay the F away from XD Like legit obsessed with fictional char to the point of UNIRONICALLY calling them husband or wife with a Japanese pronunciation...I dont see what they have to do with Naughty tho. It is a normal word used to tell kids what not to do no? (Not a native English speaker here correct me if i am wrong)
Load More Replies...You know what I hate when people say it without knowing it's actual meaning, baka, baka means stupid, idiot, dumb, etc, baka is Japanese, many many weebs (as a weeb/anime fan myself) are very cringe and say baka all the time as if it means something inappropriate, I literally feel uncomfortable saying things like baka and senpei because of people not googling the meaning of words they use everyday as a joke, it annoys me to my very core
Sorry in advance if I sound condescending and Don't get me wrong it is good you have an alt hobby or two... Makes you distinct. Alas the "cringe" part is taking it too seriously like this. The terminal stage...incorporating it in real life with ppl who have no idea you are talking about... If you are, there try to roll it back... Also you sound young...So please watch out for the groomers infesting anime discords and chat platforms in general, ESPECIALLY the gambling games. I remember when I was young and creeped the F out...Good lord the amount of PDFs there...Extra dangerous and unhinged...Makes sense when you consider what kind of person would gamble money to collect underage characters. I remained safe as a kid cus we were a group of IRL friends, and we watched out for each other from creeps. Kinda like how some women go to the bathroom together. Stay safe.
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Game changer. Cant stand it.
Fine if not overused. A change that is so significant it substantially changes the methods or outcome of what you are doing. I think like many words and phrases it is the overuse / hyperbole that makes it annoying. When it is used appropriately I think most folks are more interested in the actual change than the wording. When used inappropriately I think folks just focus on the hyperbolic wording being annoying corporate speak.
Niblings.
Agreed! It's descriptive and funny sounding. Pleasant to say.
Load More Replies...I don't like it, but I also don't like repeatedly saying "my niece and nephew".
Niblings is a term cannibals use to refer to feed stock that is still young and tender. /J But for real I had to google because I've never heard this used. -=-- "A nibling is a gender-neutral term for the child of one's sibling, such as a niece or nephew. The word is a combination of the "n" in "niece" and "nephew" with "sibling". Linguist Samuel Martin coined the term in the early 1950s, but it was relatively obscure for many decades. It has become more widely used in recent years. "
I agree but I still wouldn’t use it, because I’d have to spend too long explaining it.
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Mouthfeel.
We absolutely use it to describe a product we are testing, mouth feel is important, from everything from sausages to cakes.
Not a bad word at all if used properly. Mouthfeel is HUGE if you are in the business of manufacturing food and want it to sell. As a simple example, I like peas but I prefer frozen peas cooked gently so they still have texture. At least one of my relatives like the mushy peas that come from cans but doesn't like them when firmer. Both are peas and taste like peas. The difference in what we like / don't like is the texture differences or 'mouthfeel'.
It's a technical jargon term used by industry people to rate things like coffee or chocolate products.
Load More Replies...But it's not always JUST texture. It's also if whatever you're eating/drinking leaves a residue in your mouth or leaves your mouth/tongue feeling funny.
Load More Replies...The word is gross, but is actually a thing. When I learned about, I started to understand why I eat certain specific foods, it's because of the ......
Potty has got to be the SINGLE worst word on the planet.
If it's ever used by an adult except when referring to young children then yes.
von Lipwig? Amazing literary character. Well done Terry Pratchett!
Load More Replies...My youngest great grandson is going through potty training. How else would you describe it! Sounds better than " he's learning how to shiit properly".
Potty is an actual item used when toilet training our kids. In the UK at least.
Whereas going potty or being potty means we’re a bit cracked!
Load More Replies...My grandmother always said "potty paper" instead of toilet paper. It drove my mom crazy. Now, my mom refers to our dog going "potty" to refer to her going number two (pooping). I haven't brought this up to my mom...
There's an episode of the Big Bang Theory where everyone makes fun of Raj for using that word for the physical toilet.
Agenda. What's on your agenda today? God I get so irrationally annoyed.
So telling us what you have planned today, is that an agenda reveal....
Load More Replies...What then is an easier way to describe the scope of items to be discussed in a meeting?
That's what the term is properly applied to. If you have a meeting you can have an agenda. If you aren't having a meeting, you have a schedule or a to-do list, not an agenda.
Load More Replies...Actually, agenda is an ancient latin word that means (things) to do. Hence the name of the book we also call diary. Verb agire (to act), agenda (to be done).
Yes! And this is how we still.use the word in Greek!
Load More Replies...This for a little while then work allll day and a plasma donation after work, watch TV and sleep while working in potty breaks for the dogs.
Slit.
I don’t know if you’re in the U.S., but there’s a commercial for all-natural deodorant lotion. The woman in the ad says, “You can use it from your pits to your…” and then looks down. I always think SLITS.
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Succulent. Unless you're talking about a plant.
Memo to self: Outline new Perry Mason mystery, "The case of the succulent succubus".
Load More Replies...Because it sounds like suck and your mind goes to penes, and it's something you don't like to do. Get back in your box
Ointment, I hate that word!
Salve is the cooler cousin! (I just wanna use the vocabulary I learned from RPG games XD)
And you're going to get a lot further with that in the Netherlands and Germany (zalf, Salbe)
Load More Replies...But it gets bonus points because it sounds suspiciously close to the sound pigs make. 🐷
Entrepreneur.
It's always had a negative connotation to me, as in the person who adds no value to a product, a project, a system, a company. When my employer started using "Entrepreneurial Mindset" as one of its core values for employees I knew the writing was on the wall.
I always thought it was the person who started the company.
Load More Replies...Like many posts in this thread, it is a word with a specific meaning and I think folks complaining about it are triggering on overuse / misuse rather than the word itself. It means "a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so." and it comes from the French - entreprende "undertake".
When I hear this one, I’m taken back to Eddie Murphy doing “Mr Robinson’s Neighborhood,” and his word of the day, “Onta-pa-noor,” and I start cackling and looking to my friends who also remember that “SNL skit, and once we catch our breath, it’s Eddie doing Buckwheat doing the late-night commercial for those romantic hits and we start singing, “Unce, twice, fee tines a mady,” and suddenly it’s bedlam. 🤤 I may be old, but I was alive for and still remember when “SNL” was good forty years ago! Also, I live among 125 black men, so I’m lucky this happens a LOT, and they require ME to sing that song! 😲😵💫 Let’s all laugh at the white girl!
If it refers to somebody starting a new business, then I am OK with it. But if somebody else is using it for something else, no.
People who use the word literally constantly. Got an email from someone yesterday complaining that they are "literally freezing" while at work. You are cold and figuratively freezing. If you were literally freezing you would be dead.
And sentences containing "basically, like, totally" every third word or so. My peeve is "bubbly" as in she/he/they were so bubbly. No idea why, it just makes me grrrrr!
Load More Replies...Not really a word, but for me it's the D*s. DH, DD, DS, DW, etc. Just say who they are.
Instant rage-closing of the article! If I see it in the thumb, I downvote without opening.
Load More Replies...Snowflake. When people use the word they're usually the ones getting upset. Often for being called out for spewing bs.
"Depressed / depression". As in "I'm depressed because my team lost a game".....no you are not. You might be sad, you might be angry but you are *not* depressed. It makes it harder for people ( like me) really struggling with depression.
Its hard for me to explain how belittled this type of use of the word makes me feel.
Load More Replies...Impact. One thing physically striking another produces an impact. One thing compressed into another is impacted. A bullet will impact a tree. A wisdom tooth can become impacted. The word you are looking for is "affect". The divorce affected the children badly. Sales were affected by a product recall. The two words "impact" and "affect" are NOT synonyms!
Something I hear at work occasionally, makes my eye twitch: mandatory requirements.
Unclear: are the mandatory requirements compulsory?
Load More Replies...People who use the word literally constantly. Got an email from someone yesterday complaining that they are "literally freezing" while at work. You are cold and figuratively freezing. If you were literally freezing you would be dead.
And sentences containing "basically, like, totally" every third word or so. My peeve is "bubbly" as in she/he/they were so bubbly. No idea why, it just makes me grrrrr!
Load More Replies...Not really a word, but for me it's the D*s. DH, DD, DS, DW, etc. Just say who they are.
Instant rage-closing of the article! If I see it in the thumb, I downvote without opening.
Load More Replies...Snowflake. When people use the word they're usually the ones getting upset. Often for being called out for spewing bs.
"Depressed / depression". As in "I'm depressed because my team lost a game".....no you are not. You might be sad, you might be angry but you are *not* depressed. It makes it harder for people ( like me) really struggling with depression.
Its hard for me to explain how belittled this type of use of the word makes me feel.
Load More Replies...Impact. One thing physically striking another produces an impact. One thing compressed into another is impacted. A bullet will impact a tree. A wisdom tooth can become impacted. The word you are looking for is "affect". The divorce affected the children badly. Sales were affected by a product recall. The two words "impact" and "affect" are NOT synonyms!
Something I hear at work occasionally, makes my eye twitch: mandatory requirements.
Unclear: are the mandatory requirements compulsory?
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