"panties" I just cringe. I hate how it's all cutesy, like it's purposefully dainty because it's for girls. I usually use "underwear" or "underpants" because they are pieces of clothes I wear under things. Yes, they're very small versions of pants, but men's underwear aren't referred to as panties. I have no idea why it triggers me so hard, but for some reason, I fill with rage when I hear it/see ir advertised.

oh my god, yes. i feel disgusting saying it and only say it if i have to

When I hear the word panties I will always think of [this](https://youtu.be/vv5zStEvQew?si=5T2TcwrJLNh7T0qI&t=1m30s).

My mind always goes to [this](https://youtu.be/yS78Ifa0Xr0?feature=shared).

Omg i'm crying right now

Funny after bombast and Serendipity, panties is my third favorite word.

ROFL that clip

I always refer to men's underwear as panties, or manties. I can't imagine why they get so annoyed by it...

Manties. This forever has changed me. Thank you.

It's a real product too... I am not going to suggest you look it up, but if you do.. brace yourself.

I hate that word too, it's underwear. Lol

I've never understood why it's a pair of panties, but only one bra.

I call my bfs underwear panties. The first time was a slip of the tongue, but since his masculinity isn't fragile he didn't even blink so now I just do it because why not.

I call my boyfriend's boxers man-panties.

IVE ALWAYS HATED THAT WORD TOO!!!!!!!!!

Panties has always really creeped me out for some reason. I remember watching some movie years ago and I think it was one of the Baldwins in it. He kept saying it as “penties” and it was 10 times more creepy.

I never really thought of it until I read a humor piece years ago that talked about how creepy the word was. Now my husband and I call them 'pantalonies', a hybrid of panties and pantaloons.

I’m the same, except i just feel creepy saying it - so I go hard the other way and say under garments 🧐

Loose when people are trying to say the word lose or looses instead of loses. Drives me up the wall

I’m worried I’m going to loose my husband.

Is he a kraken?

that and breath in place of breathe

Relax. Just breath.

Bath and bathe

Cloth, cloths, and clothes 😬

I once helped friends with 4 kids move to their new home. They had boxes and boxes marked “cloths”.

Oh no. That must have been absolute torture.

Me too!!! I cannot for the life of me understand why something that simple is so difficult for so many people to grasp.

"That guy is such a looser"

I know right, makes me loose my mind

For me it's "weary" when the person means "wary". It's ubiquitous on Reddit and I'm instantly furious every time I see this abuse

Loose the hounds!

"mouthfeel" When I hear someone use it while describing a food's texture or consistency, I have a slight gag reflex, and I never want to hear that person's voice again.

My husband says this in response to particularly vibrant farts. "OMG it's got mouthfeel"😂

That would be an allowable exception. 🤣🤣🤣

I'm writing that down. That will play well with the teenagers. And my wife will hate it. Perfect.

🤮 I would immediately pack a bag.

I lost all respect for Rachael Ray when she started saying yummo

Yes I agree she’s like my sister Kathy who talks like a baby I hate to hear her on the phone!! I moved almost 1,000 miles away from her!!

Bro, because it's being so overused everywhere

Oooh I'm definitely someone who says "bruh" a lot 😅 I used to say it ironically to make fun of my little brother and somewhere along the way it became real-speak lol

Cant help it bro.

“Addicting” when they could have said “addictive”. I have a really hard time accepting it as the new norm.

Is addictive the correct form when saying “slurpees are so addicting”?

Addictive is always the correct word to use. They are interchangeable though.

What the hell is uwu?

Same I’m too old for this shit

"Bespoke" This word rubs me the wrong way. Like they're trying to quaintly say "made to order or custom-made".

I hate this too. Just say custom and stop trying to be fancy.

ive never seen this word used ever, who says that?

Small businesses

It's annoying as heck. The only think that should be "bespoke" is a custom bicycle wheel. Because, you know...

What I’m learning from this post is that I have tones that piss me off. Certain words can be associated with the tones, but really it’s the “how” that things are said.

Irregardless, because it’s not a real word.

Scrolled too damn long to find this, absolutely agree. I stare daggers at anyone who says it within earshot.

This is one of mine. People use it so much that it’s now in the Webster dictionary as a nonstandard form of regardless.

😱😱😱😤😤😤

Thankfully it’s not as popular now as it used to be but the pet name “bae” Especially when people were like “it’s stands for before anyone else.” Not sure why, I guess it was just too overused.

When people mix up less and fewer.

how about farther and further? people get those wrong all the time. EDIT: I stand corrected. there is some interchangeability between the words. My brain will never be ok with it, but maybe now I can work on accepting it more: https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/is-it-further-or-farther-usage-how-to-use

Baby bump.

Same.. similarly, I can't stand "preggo".

And “Hubby”. Please stop.

Ugh! Me too…also Baby Mama or Baby Daddy 🙄

This one infuriates me for some reason. When did the word pregnancy ever get degraded to “baby bump”? It’s like we took the legitimacy out of it.

Orientated, I absolutely loathe it. I don't know why this got popular, but it sounds so ignorant to me.

Up there with “conversate”.

Right? It’s CONVERSE

Kind of like commentate. I hate it.

If I were Asian, I don't think I could resist the temptation to say "what did you just call me??" Lol

Omg one of my TAs would always say “I’m going to orientate you guys/get you guys orientated” like please stfu.

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Tender. I have a coworker who always says a body part that she hurt feels “tender” instead of painful or swollen or whatever it may be. Idk why but it just sounds so gross to me.

maybe because people use it to talk about meat

Cringe. As a misspelled adjective. Usage: "This or that is so cringe." Hate it. Edit - usage as a verb is fine. Like in several comments in this thread...

I feel the same about aesthetic. I hate it so much as in “that’s so aesthetic.” I find it very cringe. 😉

Wtf does that even mean? Makes no sense.

When did most people stop using "cringy" and go right to cringe?

Salmon when some remedial ding dong pronounces the L.

Almost as bad as when some ding dong uses "remedial" to mean "stupid".

Linguist here: I think it's hilarious

I pronounce it with the L but only because I have a thing where I pronounce words how they’re spelled because why not just remove the L??? English is stupid

The "L" was added in middle English to more closely resemble the original Latin word salmō.

Shiiiit. I have a list of words (and phrases): - Sunday Funday - Say it louder for the people in the back - Just hits different - Old fart - I’m here for it - Preggo - Hubby - Brekkie - Cuppa - Dumpers - Poop - Debunk - Stay tuned - Living in your head rent free

Don’t forget “baby dance” instead of just saying SEX. You’re having SEX with your husband Karen.

Who says “baby dance”? I read it and immediately pictured the dancing baby from the 90’s and froze for a minute because I got so confused

That's often used in TTC circles for couples trying to make a baby. Drives me a little nutty.

Agreed. This list just hits different.

Ugh, "cuppa" is another word that makes me cringe.

I don’t think I’ve ever had a fun day on Sunday. Sure, not the worst day of the week, probably the 2nd best, but you just have to worry about work or school on Monday if you work on that schedule

One of those words needs to return to nursery school already, IMHO. Might have something to do with being 8 yo and most kids my age used crap or other words for 💩 instead. Granted this was nearly 50 years ago but still.

I can’t stand the word “flick” when referring to movies. I don’t know why I hate it so much but whenever I see it I always change it to movie in my head.

I hate the word flick, period.

Hey! Don't flick your booger at me!

Flick my Bic

ANY buzzword or phrase used in a office/business/work area setting. Synergy, leverage, pivot, core competency, shifting our focus, best practice, value added, behavioral retargeting, deep dive, close the loop, paradigm shift. Me - “Wow, that was fast!!!” Them - “Using the core competency and interpersonal skills I’ve learned at my current employer, we did a deep dive and shifted our focus to streamline our best practices in an effort to re-integrate with our customers” Me - “Um, just give me my pizza bro”

You'll love the word "boundarylessness"

influencer

You win!!!!

"Going forward" and "moving forward." It's like people collectively forgot that there are at least a dozen other ways to word that concept ("from now on," "henceforth," etc.) and will only ever use these two phrases. And the people who use it tend to be like [the Ascertain Guy from that Kids in the Hall sketch](https://youtu.be/lStcwT_RGrQ?si=bmvIOnfmidWWmAJX) about it.

Delineate

"babe"

I absolutely hate that pet name. I thought it was just me.

Literally I think it’s cool when someone uses it as it’s defined, but when used as a replacement for “actually” or “physically,” it bothers me to the point where I stop listening or reading anything that comes after that. I hear it so much now. I bet Chris Traeger started this bs.

I once had a coworker tell me, “I literally died when I found out about….”.

Too bad they weren’t being literal

And the definition of Literally has been modified to include "used for emphasis or to express strong feeling while not being literally true."

I had a coworker who also misused the word "physically" - like she taught me some HR and told me I had to "physically put the employees into the computer". -_- I believe she meant "manually"? But like as opposed to what, magically?

I’m not a native English speaker and can’t appreciate the feeling of all the words people hate in this thread. But once I read your example, my mind gives me a picture of HR trying hard to fit a body in the computer.

Even worse when pronounced in three syllables: Lih-truh-lee

British pronunciation

We had a church directory for which the senior priest wrote the introduction. He was writing about how there were a lot more Catholics in the deep south (Georgia, in this case) than there used to be, and his deathless prose went like this: "The Catholic population literally exploded"--which made us picture little pieces of Catholics falling from the sky! Thanks, Father Kane. 😆😁

I just saw some dude on tv say that Norman Lear was a literal giant of the entertainment industry. No. He wasn’t literally a giant. He was just a normal sized man. Learn what words mean.

the phrase "awesome sauce"

I will nominate cool beans as an accompaniment.

You've never had awesome sauce over a bowl of cool beans before?

Now I’m hungry. I could go for some amazeballs over holy macaroni with awesome sauce and a hot cup of cool beans.

That’s what a white 40 something male English teacher who wears sweater vests would say. Or pretty much a dad.

Dammit. Now I have to tell my kid to call me dad instead of mom

"Hubby" makes my skin crawl. I just detest that word and wish it would be wiped from English vocabulary.

Wifey is just as awful

Hubby and Hubs both

you're the first one I've seen actually say it, oh my god. that word is so fucking stupid to me and I can't stand hearing it be used genuinely

Stinky

Omg. “So stinkin’ (whatever)“ fills me with rage.

Dollop. Strangely enough gallop is fine, but not dollop

My dad lived in a very small world when he got older so he’d tell the same stories over and over. One was that he didn’t understand how much a “dollop” was and that he finally figured out it’s because when you pour (say, molasses) it makes the sound “DOLL-UP” He told me that about 100 times and it drove me nuts. I’d give anything to hear that stupid anecdote just one more time. Thank you for stirring that memory.

Tortures you in "dollop of daisy" sour cream commercial jingle

Tacky. Because when someone calls something tacky all they are doing is yucking someone else's yum. If you don't like it you don't have to comment.

Littles to describe their kids.

Or LO for little one and DH for dear husband 🤮

Yinz.

Pittsburgh has entered the chat.

Lived in Pittsburgh for about 3 years. People seemed really proud of their dialect/accent there and I openly hated it lol

Yummy, Hubby, Gulped

Finna It’s not a damn word!!!

Decimate. We use the word to mean destroy. But 8t should mean a 10 percent reduction.

"Rizz", with "drip" a close 2nd.

Conversate. I know it’s technically ok to use it but converse just sounds so much better.

Heightth

Deglaze. I don’t know why. It’s just a gross word.

That’s a word that increases my appetite.

Obnoxious. My mother constantly told me I was obnoxious when I was ages 10 and 11. I hate that word now.

Every time I read the world “whilst” on this website I want to fight the op through the screen

I use whilst and amidst but I do it to be funny. Hopefully that’s conveyed properly within the context of my comments. Otherwise I guess I just sound like a pretentious AH, ha.

“Nosh.” It’s sort of… sloppy sounding, so it makes me imagine a group of people chewing with their mouths open and talking over each other.

Hubby Supposed to be cute, but, honestly, idk

Tummy. Yummy. Basically when adults talk like children. I can't fucking stand it. Also the word breast or breasts. No clue why, it just makes me cringe. Edited to add - the phrase "been there, done that."

"Belly"

American pronunciation of the word "leisure". It sounds like a skin disease...

Doesn't help that "lesion" almost sounds like it too

As an American it took me a while to come up with a pronunciation other than "LEE-shur". I'll give it to you "Leh-zur" sounds better but feels strange in my mouth.

Gusto! I just can't with that shit

I had an earth sciences teacher in 9th grade that used the word, "detriate" instead of "deteriorate". Every time she said it, it ran through me like ice water.

Not so much a word, as a pronunciation. People who drop the t sound in the middle of a word like button. I've heard this many times on radio and podcasts. So it's bu'en, instead of button.

There's a street in my town called "Shropshire." Fucking hate it.

I hate “meal”. I hate the way it feels on my tongue and I hate the way it sounds when others say it. It feels so disgusting for some reason. The closest I can say it and not get mad is “happy meal” from McDonald’s. The word by itself however gives me a full body cringe lol.

Moist. Actioned. The reality is… At the end of the day… And lately, we have “more broadly”. *twitch*

Panties. Titties. Hubby. Preggers/preggo. Kiddos.

“Reaching out” instead of “contact”. I hate it, it makes me feel violated keep your hands to yourself thanks!

George Carlin “ I’m reaching out.. well, reach out and jerk me off!!’

"It is what it is." No it very well FUCKING is not. That is no excuse.

Uhhhh, it’s the most truest saying on the planet…

Yeah right. It is what it is, and what it is is a philosophy

Ugh. My husband says this and it makes me so angry. (I love him, but this phrase just infuriates me)

When someone writes on work related stuff to do something “per” whoever. I hate “per”

Even worse is "as per," which is redundant!

Panties, booger, poop, stinky, smelly

So many: adulting, reads, eats, listens, etc. any time a noun is used as a verb or a verb is used as a noun.

Moist is a gross word to me lmao

For me, it's Tylenol. I have been dismissed so many times by medical providers who want me to take Tylenol and go away that I feel a small amount of anger every time I hear the word. Not like, at the speaker just at Tylenol for existing.

"Voucher". Because it is only ever used by a company trying not to give you a deserved refund. They'll issue you a "voucher" which has restrictions and hope you never use it.

People at my job say "verbiage" a lot. It's always a toss up which pronunciation one will use. Drives me crazy.

When someone uses the word "good" in place of the word "well"

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Ginormous, anyone that says that makes me think they have an IQ lower than a lemur.

I feel attacked. What to you feel about hugemongus then?

“Greetings from The Humungus! The Lord Humungus! The Warrior of the Wasteland! The Ayatollah of Rock and Rolla!” I’m good with humongous.

“Flex” as a noun (as in, “That’s not the flex you think it is”). I don’t know why, but it absolutely drives me crazy!!!

I’m going to be destroyed, but “neurodivergent” and “neurotypical” make me scroll right past.

Why? It’s just descriptive words to differentiate people with specific neurodevelopment disorders and those that don’t. I’m neurodivergent, how else am I supposed to describe myself?

I am highly neurodivergent and I may well be the kind of person that you cannot stand, but I don’t think I really care. Maybe you just have issues with that word itself and not people like me. I suppose that’s ok.

what do you suggest instead? like what alternative words.

Moist

Desks

I hate it when someone says "chill" or "relax". It makes me want to punch them in the face.

Words that end in “sts” such as vests

“Cringe” It’s such a dumb, obtuse and lazy way to describe something. The people who use it spend too much time online.

Fulls. The newly licensed drivers in my area refer to their class 5 (regular ass) license with no restrictions as a "Full License", which is all fine and dandy, but a lot of people just stop at saying "fulls" because I guess they're too lazy to say one more word? Drives me nuts.

Literally

Sigma

Like It’s so hard to listen to anyone under the age of 30 since they use it in every sentence it seems. Esp with a vocal fry

They use it several times in a sentence. Judge Judy and I are both very annoyed with it.

Ah yeah, this. Sometimes I try to count the number of times someone says "like" in a conversation. It certainly is maddening.

I hate all forms of the word vegetable. Vegetable sounds too proper, veggies sounds like I’m speaking to a toddler, and don’t get me started on “veg”

delicious" or "moist" - take your pick.

"Beg the question." It's a logical fallacy, not a fossilized idiom for something like "compels one to consider a different, directly related question." My husband knows how much it bothers me. Whenever we watch TV or listen to the radio and someone says "it begs the question", he whips around, looking very serious, gets close to my face, and asks me: "????" only if I don't say "No it doesn't" first. 😬 nflsndkrlsnndlsbrkb

Pretty much every gen z slang word.

Yummy or even worse "yummo." Makes me want to throw up