nancypants Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 What word do you really just hate the sound of (nevermind the meaning if you can). What word just makes you cringe? My least favorite word is blog. Blahg. Sounds like a man vomiting. (I do so love to blog though.) Other least favorite word... Guelph (in Ontario). Sounds like a cat vomiting. And I think moist, ointment and pustule are right up there too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parabola Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 OMG, vulgar. I cannot STAND that word. I can barely stand to write it, I had to look away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elaine Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 Oooohhh! Great Nan, I was thinking the same thing! I hate the words bulkhead, trousers and Paducah. Paducah sounds like the noise that you make when you get the wind knocked out of you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brindee Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 The f word. I HATE hearing teenagers walking by saying that every other word!!!!! I don't like hearing people, like, say like, you know, like, every other, like, word or so, like that's so, like annoying! But I'll take that ANY day over that other word!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TXMomof4 Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 Oooohhh! Great Nan, I was thinking the same thing! I hate the words bulkhead, trousers and Paducah. Paducah sounds like the noise that you make when you get the wind knocked out of you! Have you ever been to Paducah, TX? You'd hate the word even worse after that experience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Dominion Heather Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 Womb. I hate that word. It sounds like wound. I have a wound in my womb. Dh hates the words mammary and mammogram. :001_huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrairieAir Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 I really dislike words people make up to replace words they think are vulgar. We had a neighbor who used to say foof instead of fart and petunsky instead of butt. Ridiculous! I don't like the word panties. I prefer underwear. I've said it before, but I'll say it again. I don't like the word interstices. It sounds like an infection with really nasty green pus. Really. It's completely illogical, but there it is. I know there are more. I must be tired tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nancypants Posted June 24, 2008 Author Share Posted June 24, 2008 Womb. I hate that word. It sounds like wound. I have a wound in my womb. Dh hates the words mammary and mammogram. :001_huh: LOL You'd think he'd love those words for what they represent! :smilielol5: But then I really hate the sound of the words scrotum (but don't worry, Prairie Air... we don't make up alternatives! LOL... I know what you mean! And I agree. They are not panties. They are underwear or undies!) and epididymis also, so I guess I take it back. :blink: I'm so sorry. I suppose there are a number of body words that sort of turn my stomach! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom2legomaniacs Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 Phlegm, mucous (see a trend here;)) I got a little rise in my throat just thinking about those words --ewww. Also, fart, puke, barf, vomit, BM (really hate that one) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockermom Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 It's odd, but I hate the word "lick". I'm sure there are more, but I'm sleepy. PrairieAir, we don't make up words for things but... when I was in labor, I apparently told my nephew that everyone within a 5 mile radius had seen my "hoo hoo". I've never used that term for ANYTHING in my life. (My nephew is 27 w/2 ds of his own, like a brother to me.. he was there in case DH passed out.) Everyone laughed about that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*anj* Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 Budget. I hate it and all that it represents. No. I hate that one too. Decaf. Sends shivers down my spine. And here's a real one: Uvula. My mother is/was a dental assistant and she always taught us the real words for things like that. But uvula is not a pleasant word to say. Ewww. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrairieAir Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 Well, okay, it's not all euphemisms. It's the overly prissy ones. Hoo hoo doesn't bother me. The alternatives to scrotum don't bother me. But when someone goes overboard to avoid sounding vulgar, it somehow sounds even more vulgar to me than the word they're trying to avoid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mamagistra Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 I really dislike words people make up to replace words they think are vulgar. We had a neighbor who used to say foof instead of fart and petunsky instead of butt. Ridiculous! Can't. breathe! ROFLOL :lol::lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue G in PA Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 Well, I can't spell it out here b/c it is so very vulgar and disgusting. Let's just say that it is the first syllable of the word country. Yuck, yuck, yuck. I hated when high school boys would use that word referring to a girl they didn't like. Blech. I'm cringing right now as I type. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockermom Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 I hate it when people use internet abbreviations in actual conversation. My neice will actually say "double u T F" (I didn't know if I'd get in trouble for typing it here) when she is talking. I know that's not technically a "word", but I still hate to hear it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockermom Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 PrairieAir, I reread your post in the quote above and wanted to add that I once got sent home and banned from another little girl's house because I said "butt" instead of "behind". They said I used foul language and was a bad influence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plucky Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 Is it the C word? That one used to really bother me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GraceinMD Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 For some reason: pooch ("sticking out" as in "your stomach is pooching out," not as in "dog"). Bleah. I also have a hard time with "roach," but that's more for meaning than sound. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockermom Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 Well, I can't spell it out here b/c it is so very vulgar and disgusting. Let's just say that it is the first syllable of the word country. Yuck, yuck, yuck. I hated when high school boys would use that word referring to a girl they didn't like. Blech. I'm cringing right now as I type. That is truly my least favorite word.. but I wasn't able to figure out a way to state that here... I'm glad you did it for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parabola Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 (edited) Well, okay, it's not all euphemisms. It's the overly prissy ones. Hoo hoo doesn't bother me. The alternatives to scrotum don't bother me. But when someone goes overboard to avoid sounding vulgar, it somehow sounds even more vulgar to me than the word they're trying to avoid. Well, I can't spell it out here b/c it is so very vulgar and disgusting. Let's just say that it is the first syllable of the word country. Yuck, yuck, yuck. I hated when high school boys would use that word referring to a girl they didn't like. Blech. I'm cringing right now as I type. Edited April 14, 2014 by OtherJohn Smilely image contained malware. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacia Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 Ain't. Hate it. Yeah, buddy. And what word are you making into a contraction? (I know. I know. I sound like the grammar police. Wanna see my badge? ;)) Oh, and I don't like the word fart. LOL. It seems so Animal House-ish (and I even love Animal House). When my kids were little, both used to say, "Air came out of my bottom." I had to giggle internally every time they ever said that. I never gave them the correct terminology. Alas, they learned 'fart' from their cousin. Guess that's what older cousins are good for... :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockermom Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 I hated it when my MIL would refer to my son nursing as "getting his ti**y bottle". It really bothered me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mamagistra Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 I'm sidling up next to *anj* with: diet exercise mall :D I also detest the words "awesome" and "amazing" when they are used to describe a thing that is decidedly ordinary. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandy in Indy Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 Two of our banned words: stupid and can't. Not allowed in my home. I don't like curse words, especially one taking the Lord's name in vain. I do, however, LIKE futile, as in, resistance is futile. (Can you guess what I'm watching???) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
summer Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 Irrigrate. My DD keeps complaining about it and I have never heard the word before. Irrigrate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcconnellboys Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 Oh, yes, I HATE that word.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cami in UT Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 Mine is not a "body" word. It is flautist. I'm a flute player so everyone tells me I'm a flautist. I tell them that I play the flute and not the flaut. It actually makes me visibly cringe, so my dh will say it to be funny.:tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcconnellboys Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 Yuck! That's detestable.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nancypants Posted June 24, 2008 Author Share Posted June 24, 2008 Well, okay, it's not all euphemisms. It's the overly prissy ones. Hoo hoo doesn't bother me. The alternatives to scrotum don't bother me. But when someone goes overboard to avoid sounding vulgar, it somehow sounds even more vulgar to me than the word they're trying to avoid. Oh yes! I get you completely! Are you thinking of "va jay jay" maybe? Or I've heard moms in the bathroom say, "Did you wipe your ta ta." Ewww! Why? LOL Or maybe "peeper" and "dingdong"? Euphemisms sometimes stop sounding like euphemisms and just sound... dumb! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoggirl Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 a word that should be used as an adjective in front of the word "cat" (it starts with a "p") but is used to mean something else. Hate, hate, hate, it!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nutmeg Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 It's not a word, but... I hate How come Just say Why!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nancypants Posted June 24, 2008 Author Share Posted June 24, 2008 PrairieAir, I reread your post in the quote above and wanted to add that I once got sent home and banned from another little girl's house because I said "butt" instead of "behind". They said I used foul language and was a bad influence. My Mom outlawed the word "butt" in our house and as kids we always pestered her as to why it was banned. She could never really answer. Finally she said, "Because it sounds too much like buttocks." :001_huh::lol: She wasn't amused when we reminded her that that word was in the dictionary. She doesn't mind that we call it that now... in fact, I think she does too! LOL She also hated the word fart with a passion! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nancypants Posted June 24, 2008 Author Share Posted June 24, 2008 I hate it when people use internet abbreviations in actual conversation. My neice will actually say "double u T F" (I didn't know if I'd get in trouble for typing it here) when she is talking. I know that's not technically a "word", but I still hate to hear it. You know what's really awful. One time I found myself thinking the letters "LOL" instead of actually laughing. Disturbing isn't it? :001_huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tammy Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 nt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcconnellboys Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 Yes, along with that other, similar word already mentioned, I also hate this one. And chic(k) used to refer to women - hate it..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karen sn Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 I hate when people use the word "bum" instead of butt. "Oh I fell on my bum." What? You fell on your vagrant person? Did you hurt him? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nancypants Posted June 24, 2008 Author Share Posted June 24, 2008 I hate when people use the word "bum" instead of butt. "Oh I fell on my bum." What? You fell on your vagrant person? Did you hurt him? Don't come to Canada (or Great Britain) then! LOL That's what most everyone calls it here! I actually now prefer bum to butt. It sounds softer! :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ticklbee Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 I hate it when people say something "sucks" or they're "pissed off" Surely they can think of something better to say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cindyg Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 I really hate "gifted" when one means "gave." Why can we just "give" somebody something instead of "gifting" them something? Eck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
runningirl71 Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 a word that should be used as an adjective in front of the word "cat" (it starts with a "p") but is used to mean something else. Hate, hate, hate, it!!!! Yes! This is my least favorite word too! I'm shivering. I don't like fart either, but I've had to come to accept it in my house. DH and I don't see eye to eye on that one. I know there are more . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenny in Atl Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 copacetic.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mamagistra Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 Oh yes! I get you completely! Are you thinking of "va jay jay" maybe? Or I've heard moms in the bathroom say, "Did you wipe your ta ta." Ewww! Why? LOL Or maybe "peeper" and "dingdong"? Euphemisms sometimes stop sounding like euphemisms and just sound... dumb! Just scanning "ta-ta peeper dingdong" cracked me up! :lol::lol: Say it five times fast. :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doran Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 The substitute word for bre@sts that rhymes with the individual bumps that make up acne. (Yeesh...was it really worth all that just to avoid using *it!?) Sucks makes my butt clench Tinkle. My mother says, "Do you need to tinkle?" Oh, Lord, mother. Just. Say. Pee. Irregardless irritates me...irrationally :D Baby chicks It's terribly redundant Connie Lynn Gus (You figure it out) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nancypants Posted June 24, 2008 Author Share Posted June 24, 2008 The substitute word for bre@sts that rhymes with the individual bumps that make up acne. (Yeesh...was it really worth all that just to avoid using *it!?) Sucks makes my butt clench Tinkle. My mother says, "Do you need to tinkle?" Oh, Lord, mother. Just. Say. Pee. Irregardless irritates me...irrationally :D Baby chicks It's terribly redundant Connie Lynn Gus (You figure it out) Oh man! I love your list!! :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fourmother Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 :rant: CONVERSATE. It's not a word. Hearing that non-word is like listening to nails on a blackboard. It inspires a deep, irrational hatred in me which can only be relieved by shouting, "It's not a word! It's not a word! Say 'converse!' Conversate is not a word!" Oh, did I mention that conversate is not a word? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GraceinMD Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 like listening to nails on a blackboard Good one! I'm that way with 'nauseous'. "It makes me nauseous." "Really? It causes you to be nauseating to others? Or do you mean it makes you nauseated?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elaine Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 The substitute word for bre@sts that rhymes with the individual bumps that make up acne. (Yeesh...was it really worth all that just to avoid using *it!?) Sucks makes my butt clench Tinkle. My mother says, "Do you need to tinkle?" Oh, Lord, mother. Just. Say. Pee. Irregardless irritates me...irrationally :D Baby chicks It's terribly redundant Connie Lynn Gus (You figure it out) Those are great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashleen Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 I really hate when women call their parts their vajayjay. What the heck?! Oh, and remember when sport utility vehicles were first becoming popular and people didn't know what to call them yet? A lot of people said SUV but a lot of people said "sport ute"? I guess I'm not the only person who thought "ute" was the dumbest word ever, since SUV became the standard instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ailaena Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 I really dislike words people make up to replace words they think are vulgar. We had a neighbor who used to say foof instead of fart and petunsky instead of butt. Ridiculous! Oh yes! I get you completely! Are you thinking of "va jay jay" maybe? Or I've heard moms in the bathroom say, "Did you wipe your ta ta." Ewww! Why? LOL Or maybe "peeper" and "dingdong"? Euphemisms sometimes stop sounding like euphemisms and just sound... dumb! :smilielol5::smilielol5::smilielol5: Oh, that just made my night! I'm that way with 'nauseous'. "It makes me nauseous." "Really? It causes you to be nauseating to others? Or do you mean it makes you nauseated?" I actually said this to someone once and ended up in a room full of blank stares.:lol: OK, the ones that annoy me the most are any form of the verb got (esp. gotta), gonna and 'had tooken'. No joke, I hear the phrase 'had tooken' come out of people's mouths and it makes my head spin. But my #1 least favorite word... Frackin. One day my husband started saying it and it caused an emotion to well up in me that I had never felt before. The word literally made me angry on some visceral level, I can barely look at it, I have no idea why. He would use it in public and I would freak. He thought it was so hilarious:glare: Eventually, he stopped using it, and I found out it was from Battlestar Galactica, how they got away with swearing, but the word still bothers me. lol... foof:lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashleen Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 Ain't. Hate it. Yeah, buddy. And what word are you making into a contraction "Am not," with a Cockney accent. I always hated when teachers would say, "Ain't ain't a word." It's clearly a word, and it dates back to at least the early 1700s. The reason it's improper is because it's in Hagrid's dialect, not the Queen's dialect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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