This needs to be higher.

Let's bring back burning at the stake.

Or when 'Bro' is pronounced as 'Bra'. I'm old. I don't need this kind of stress.

To me, 'preggers' only works because it sounds British.

And there's me thinking that is was short for precious. Thinks of Gollum saying "Preesh, my preesh".

Looks like he's a T rather than an A.

It's the inflatable yard decorations that bring my stabbiness to the fore.

I hate "boy mom." A lot.

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. 😁

It's been overused to a point where it's lost all meaning

Woke being used in any setting to mean anything other than the past tense of waking up from sleep.

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?

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.

Who handed out Halloween candy? My sugar Daddy.

I'm lucky enough to have never encountered it, no idea what it means.

Let's replace it with collaboration or partnership or teamwork (so last year). Mmh, perhaps not. How about boogie on down.

I am a network architect and networking make me shudder as well.

And when did 'price' become 'price point'?? I mean what the hell? Sorry, I meant what the hell point?

This entry seems like the opposite of many of the other entries on this list that completion about shortening words out of laziness. Utilize is a perfectly acceptable word if used correctly. Don't throw shade at it because of your own lazy diction.

Oh Lord yes! Bugs me almost as much as when people say "on a daily basis" when they could say just "daily". Argghhh.

As a writer, I can say these are NOT interchangeable all the time.

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.

"Utilise" is very useful when trying to sound professional when writing an essay

Cognizant

I like "orient ", but I'm lazy. It means find the east when the sun rises.

How about wifey?

Swaps to playing "Mario Cart".

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.

There are not enough hours in the day for Faux English.

i like this word

We absolutely use it to describe a product we are testing, mouth feel is important, from everything from sausages to cakes.

If it's ever used by an adult except when referring to young children then yes.

Consults agenda ...... Reading Bored Panda.

Well, there goes my agenda for physics experiments.

Salve is the cooler cousin! (I just wanna use the vocabulary I learned from RPG games XD)

What about a Chinese meal?

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.