What is your least favorite word?
Look…I don’t know why this is but I hate the word ‘dollop’ like a dollop of Daisy (sour cream stuff)...when I hear it, I get chills and a physical reaction, a negative one…I hate it…
Is there such a word for you?
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Feminist. When I hear the word, I always envision some hirsute, masculinized, ugly man-hating woman. I know it’s a stereotype, but I can’t help but think that. Yeech… Lol.
@MRSHINYSHOES There’s nothing wrong with masculinized or ugly or hirsute (whatever that word means…maybe it’ll be my new least favorite word) women (I’m not a supporter of anyone hating any gender), btw. Thanks for the answer.
@Simone_De_Beauvoir The stereotype certainly doesn’t help the word, but that’s the image in my mind whenever I hear or see the word. Lol.
Omg, I hate the word “dollop” too.
But I think I hate the word “ointment” more. Not because of connotations, I just think it’s one ugly fucking word.
There are a few words that upset me because people who use them so often use them incorrectly.
1) Unique – this word, an adjective, cannot ever be properly modified by any other adjective. Something either is unique or it is not.
2) Proof or proves – The scientific method does not provide such things. It confirms theories by failing to show them to be false despite extensive efforts by multiple independent scientists.
Of course I can’t stand abusive words like bitch, faggot, dike, and so on when they are used as pejoratives. If someone can’t find something supportive to say, then they should try to say nothing at all.
@gailcalled I don’t even…what the…what does it even mean?
Pulmonary tuburculosis. It was a favorite word of the British novelist C.P. Snow and appeared enough in “The Master” for me to have looked it up and then never forgotten it.
Pulchritude. Because it’s a deceptive, lying word. It sounds ugly but means beautiful.
“Poop.”
Yes, I’m serious. That’s the best I can do. That word makes me cringe. Even when it’s being used by a 2 year old… even more so when it isn’t.
My mother uses “dollop” all the time, and it’s become a bit of family tradition to tease her for using it. It really is a funny word.
I don’t like barf or the phrase, blow chunks. Makes me feel sick to my stomach when people say them.
And even though I find racial/ethnic/homophobic slurs powerless, I can’t stand faggot.
Everything about that word is shitty. It doesn’t even have to be the way someone says it, just the word in general sucks and delivers an uncomfortable punch to the gut just by existing. I dislike it so much that even though I would prefer to never outright judge someone based on how they speak, when I know that faggot is even occasionally in someone’s vocabulary, it immediately turns me off.
“horrid” and “irregardless”
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the c word
penile and penal
I hate the words ‘actually’ & ‘learned’. The word actually can be taken out of the English language completely & no one would notice, nor would our conversation be effected. Go ahead & try it…use the word actually in a sentence & then say the sentence again taking the word out. ... Better isn’t it!? I know. Plus, so many people struggle with its pronunciation & that is quite bothersome as well.
Learned…something about how it tumbles off the tongue..it feels like a word a toddler would use when they haven’t grasped the rules of grammar.
@Simone_De_Beauvoir
Dollop does it for me too.
I cracked up reading your word cuz it was THE word I was going to share. lolol
DOLLOP…..cringe.
I also don’t like the word “panties.” It seems slightly creepy to me, but on the other hand the word underwear seems too clinical and utilitarian. And underpants isn’t much better than panties or underwear. What the hell am I supposed to call my underwear?
@rpmpseudonym LOL That’s both creepy and Victorian. A very bad combination if you ask me.
@lillycoyote Crotchwear? Sounds athletic doesn’t it? Like something you wear for a marathon or impromptu rugby match.
repugnant
It’s just such an ugly word.
@lillycoyote
I just call them ‘undies’
‘Underpants’ does anyone even say that anymore?
Maybe grandmas 80+ lol
‘Branding’.
As in ‘corporate branding’ or ‘product branding’. To me it’s just a stuffy way of trying to make your company or your product sound more important than it really is.
Also, the words ‘stymie’, ‘kibble’ and ‘Webinar’ and the term ‘Heebie-Jeebies’.
Wow..I am reading LOTS of words I don’t like.
A phrase I can’t stand is ‘shits & giggles’ really? WTF does that mean? haha
Aw, @rpmpseudonym, you’re not catching me out like that, Barney or no Barney!
@Rufus_T_Firefly, had to look up the word webinar, I HATE it now. Thanks for planting that grammatical seed of evil in my brain.
@aprilsimnel :)
@Coloma Bahahaha, shits and giggles is silly though!
”Yeah, you think that wittle baby bear is cute now… Just wait till he grows up and rips your face off for shits and giggles.” XD
@Coloma “Undies.” That works for me. Thanks.
@aprilsimnel Okay, I know I’m horrible but the word moist turns me on.
@Rufus_T_Firefly Funny, I actually like the word kibble for some reason. It’s so, I don’t know, so “kibblely.”
@aprilsimnel Yes, particularly when paired with the word “towlette” which isn’t even really a word. The idea of the “moist towlette” gives me the shudders too for some reason.
Panties. I don’t know why but that word just sounds nasty to me. My dad always called his unders “panties”. He was forever getting in the shower and then yelling to my mom when he was done “Chris! Bring me my panties! I forgot them!” I guess that’s what he gets for having two girls.
When British sports announcers trot out the obligatory “penultimate” lap designation. The shoe thuds every time.
And for that matter when Brits pronounce weekEND or sterAYLE. I love British use and think it superior in almost all circumstance, but those sound poncy.
“Bourgeois” – I’m not sure if America even has them, or are nothing but them, but it’s a word that seems to be used like a weapon – a very dull weapon – like a small Wiffleball bat held by a pimple faced teenager, who is himself “bourgeois”.
Haole
I like reading through this, particularly @Dr_Lawrence and @rpmpseudonym, but all others too. A GQ.
@mrentropy – when I was a kid, trying to be helpful, I informed my boss “irregardless” was not a word. Big mistake. The word always reminds me of that now, so I dislike it for personal reasons, and because I used it for so long unknowingly. That’s a good one.
@knitfroggy Just glad to know that I am not the only one that dislikes the word “panties” and finds it kind of nasty and creepy.
@lillycoyote
Now there’s a word to research…panties..pantaloons? lol
I bet we can find ‘someone’ to gather the data on the origin. lolol ;-)
@lillycoyote It does just sound creepy. My daughter calls hers “pannies”. I have been telling her for years they are “unders” but she will probably never change until she grows up and realizes that “pannies” are creepy!
Conflagration. Feels like somebody filled my mouth with random Scrabble tiles.
@lillycoyote
‘Nethergarments’
Yep, they cover the nether regions. haha
Alright..an epihany…my least favorite word of all time is…..
PEDOPHILE!
Man..runs the gauntlet on ugly sounding word with an even uglier meaning. :-/
@jjmah calls drawers gotchies.
I hate the word “panties”, too. I also greatly dislike the words “nasty” and “unitard”. I am weird.
Note, I think we should all call our underwear “balbriggans” from now on, per @lillycoyote‘s first link. ;)
Xian Xia,Mei Lan,Quan Xi,and any word that sounds so Chinese.
Ugh, I hate dollop too. Also- gulp. It has this horrible guttural uhl sound in it- then to be ended by one of the most spit inducing consonants! Ick!
Hubbs hates guesstimate. He says they’re two totally different things, damnit.
“Clotted cream” who the heck would want to eat that, after hearing it called that?
The word I hate most is “spelunking”. I think it’s the ugliest word ever. I’ll stick with “caving”.
@lillycoyote
I’ve always called em’ skivvies. But supposedly that’s only fer mens-is. I refer to hers as pantyliscious.
Oh, and I don’t seem to ever remember liking the word “cud”…
Cud is a portion of food that returns from a ruminant’s stomach in the mouth to be chewed for the second time.
Kind of related to pantyliscious.
late edit: “tuberculosis”
I have 2 of them. The first is “cancer” (it seems so common and several people close to me died from it). The second would have to be “confidence” it just seems you hear it everywhere like a zillion times.
All of the various scatological terms turn me off.
I was trying to think of a word I don’t like when I realized I quite like the combination “moist panties.”
Another nasty one is coprophagy.
@ratboy – I kinda like that combo as well.
Today my least favorite words are ‘sinus infection’ and my favorite word is anti-biotic. lol
@gailcalled, how does that little butt-licker Milo feel about coprophagy?
@ratboy: About the same as I feel when I take a shower…clean.
@ratboy and rufus – you’ll like the thread about Gardnerella vaginalis if you like the moist panties combo. Enjoy.
@zenele, thanks heaps. I now think that there is something fishy about “stinky panties.”
Whatnot…. I had an english professor use that word non-stop in her lectures. It became so bad that the guys started betting with each other how many times she would possibly say it during a class.
Not sure if this counts, but when people say “across” but put a t sound at the end, that drives me nuts.
Snot
Tying in with the weekends theme over this way.
@Coloma Snot’s not really your least favorite word, is it? It’s not as bad as many words out there, if you ask me. Sorry, that was really pathetically simple minded but somehow I couldn’t stop myself : ).
@Coloma My sinuses are trying to keep your misery in company. :(
On that note, ‘pain’ is an unpleasant word.
Dude, Hubby and Missus as in the missus
@Simone_De_Beauvoir – great to finally see your quite healthy rack icon this morning ^^.
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“Douche” bag was a very hip epithet back 15 years ago when no one used it online.
Now when someone uses it I quite literally picture them as being the douche bag – spewing used vinegar water or whatever out of their mouths. Dear god, I feel sick.
Permutation.
Vastly overused at a company I worked for in the late 90s.
@ipso
Gah…drinking coffee…nice visual..lol
With a not-so-sturdy basis for my detestation, I still have to add ‘plethora’ to my ongoing list of un-words. My reasoning: The only times I have heard it used in casual conversation, the people who used it were a bit arrogant & had a certain level of douchbaggery(sorry @ipso). With each person, comes a personal preference in its pronunciation. Pleh-THORah. Pleth-ER-ah. How it strides & swaggers like a duke of asshole kingdom off their tongue, it just gets to me. Forgive me fellow Flutherines who do use the word & do not inhabit this phony sophistication. It’s similar to the use of former/latter in conversation. I feel they are words people use when they don’t have a relatively large vocabulary, so they hide under their tongue, these key words – signifiers of an intelligence gained from conversation with a congressman or shitty novelist.
Whew. Got that out of my system.
@rpmpseudonym It’s really hard for me to dislike the word “plethora” just because it’s so much fun to say, but I would never use it seriously in a conversation. Some of my friends and enjoy casual word play, because words are fun. The only circumstance where we would use a word like that would be, say, we were standing in front of a pastry counter try to decide what to order and somebody would say something about how every looked good and there were too many to choose from and then one of us would probably say something stupid like: “Yes, a plethora, a veritable plenitude of pastries” just because the words are fun to say.
@lillycoyote I agree, but it’s also the reason I want to lay it to rest in a vocab graveyard. It’s one of those words we use when we make a mockery of its status in the English language. (like at a bakery, describing the abundance of baked goods to choose from). I would never use plethora in a serious conversation. It creates a rumble strip that the listener gets caught up on & ends up stopping you to say, “Wait a minute, what the hell did you just say?”
While plethora (& former/latter) may be great words to poke fun at, I would sacrifice the joy of saying those uptight words in silly situations, if in turn, I would never have to hear someone say them with conviction & expect me to take them seriously.
I have never really spoken/written about words I disliked. I had no idea this anger was inside of me. Thanks a lot @Simone_De_Beauvoir, for unleashing this beast within me. :)
@rpmpseudonym
Hahaha…you’re hilarious, and, very well written.
Yeah..Plethora..but ya know..it’s a good spitting word..get the lisp thing down and it could be kinda fun to parrot it back to someone. lol
Another one… “congealed.” A gross sounding word with a pretty gross meaning!
@Coloma : Plethora means extheth. Both are utheful words.
Todays word:
Infection
A false positive on my recovery…gah….‘snot fun at all.
@gailcalled
haha..oh don’t make me laugh, my head, my head..
I hate the N word. Or any word that is derogatory toward a single ethnicity, race, creed or gender. I kind of like the word bitch though, especially since I started calling men bitches. I love the look on their face.
If you mean what real word I hate….cumulative. I cannot pronounce it for the life of me for some reason. I don’t know why it’s like I have a mental block as where to place the emphasis accent. It always comes out as cumative.
@Paxan8 : Think four syllables; qu mu la tiv (accent is on “tiv.”
the one word i hate is Pimple it makes me wanna beat the shit out of whoever says it and it also makes me wanna cut myself <——not literally gonna cut myself for the people take stuff like that literal
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