Words We Hate. (for other reasons than definition)

[slybacon9]

Curd.

Discharge.

Hollandaise.

Ruths Chris Steakhouse.

BizHub.

SCOTUM.

Re-Fi.

BevMo.

BigLots!.

Mutual Fund.

double u double u double u dot.

tartar.

[NMMNG]

1. Smegma

Both the word itself and the substance are just ewwwww :puke:

[swag]

65. Not to mention its little brother

"dickcheese."

[In_The_Wind]

2. goodbye

:cry:

[billyskank]

15. But on the other hand, hello rocks!

[slybacon9]

3. milky.

[driver8]

4. Mucus Plug!!

When my wife was pregnant with our first daughter and we were attending Lamaze classes, I thought I would puke everytime the lady teaching the class said these words!!!

[underpants]

7. Do you knnow about the mucus plug? Do you know about the poo???

:bounce:

One of the first things I read about, for some reason, was the mucus plug and it became my running joke the whole pregnancy. I loved asking other partners around the birthing center about the plug and the poo that would come in childbirth. Many knew many did not.

:bounce:

I actually never got to see the mucus plug....the bloody flow took care of that......now THAT is a life changing moment :wow:

[Arugula Latte]

28. My sister and I used to tease each other about that

when we were pregnant. "So, have you popped your mucus plug yet?"

Pregnancy is good training for parenthood, because a lot of it is about bodily excretions for a long time ...

[driver8]

37. You guys are making me sick..

Please excuse me for a minute.

[MsKandice01]

30. Vouch

Just sounds weird.

[MsKandice01]

31. Oh crap...

This was supposed to be a reply to the OP.

[Blue Gardener]

5. Ooze

Just sounds bad.

[slybacon9]

6. Frothy

[Jessica]

8. Brainchild.

Or even worse ... brainchildren. x(

[slybacon9]

12. oooo, good one. corporate trend words are the worst...

[toey]

9. therapist

if you split the word in two is says "the rapist"

[youthere]

11. I hate "analyst" for a similar reason.

[DanCa]

10. Abortion - Prolife - I am sick of it thanks for letting me vent :D

[DrZeeLit]

13. Fester. New Age. Psycho Babble. Yada yada yada (altho I do use that one).

CSI-alike
Douche bag
MSM

and I'm not fond of people who use their fingers as quotation marks.

[arwalden]

16. Definitely "MSM" and "Mainstream Media" .... although...

... I do think that "Corporate Media" is accurate and appropriate.

[Democrats_win]

14. Santorum.

There are legal ways to get a name change rather than being named after that gross stuff.

[billyskank]

17. Leverage

There used to be nothing wrong with it. Now it has become perverted. :(

[slybacon9]

18. Probe. and Probate.

[DrZeeLit]

19. I'm so over LATTE (and all the Starbucks derivatives) LESION is icky...

[driver8]

38. What the hell is a "caramel machiatto"??

It doesn't even sound good!!

[lizziegrace]

20. these make my skin crawl

fridge
veggies
cozy
tasty

I'm sure there's more...

[DrZeeLit]

21. M'am. Gal. Hubby. (just to name a few)

[TallahasseeGrannie]

22. weep (as in a wound weeps)

and..
vomit
cloying
sleaze
skanky
protrusion
boil
carbuncle
skin tag
polyp
pustule
vesicle
splooge

[TallahasseeGrannie]

24. Some buzz words I hate

closure
paradigm
differentiate
synthesize
stakeholders
rubrics
benchmarks

[ZombieNixon]

29. Like this?

"In order to achieve closure, we need to differentiate the paradigm and synthesize the needs of the stakeholders with prior rubrics so we can reach the required benchmarks."

I should be a corporate speechwriter!

[driver8]

39. In order to achieve closure, we need to think outside the box!!!

AAARRGGHH! I hate that!!!

[TallahasseeGrannie]

48. Wow! That is just AWFUL!

Obviously you have been there!

[slybacon9]

34. great stuff... stakeholders. eeks

[vikegirl]

23. Sac

Euwww.

[wildhorses]

25. enema

catheter
Boss

[ceile]

26. Bro drives me nuts!

[swag]

56. Yeah. Perfectly asinine thing that a white guy will say to a white guy.

[zippy890]

27. Hate

just a creepy word and used too much

[GoddessOfGuinness]

32. What the hell is a "Chris" steak, anyway?

And is there such a thing as a "Chross" steak?

[swag]

53. The filet mignon is delectable, but the name of the place is unforgivable.

http://www.lowcarbluxury.com/rest-review-ruthschris.html

How Ruth's Chris Got Its Name...

"Ruth's Chris Steak House" is such a tongue-twister that one restaurant critic suggested it be used as a sobriety test: anyone who could say that name three times certainly couldn't be intoxicated. The year was 1965 when Ruth Fertel (a single mother with two young sons) bought a small eatery in New Orleans known as Chris Steak House. She mortgaged her home and put up $18,000 for the purchase.

The owner (Chris Matulich) gave Ruth the right to keep the name as long as the restaurant stayed in the original location. But after a fire forced her to relocate, she needed a new name because that agreement forbid her from using "Chris Steak House" (which is how everyone knew the joint). She simply tacked on her own name, outraging every naming consultant on the planet. "I've always hated the name," Ruth told Fortune Magazine, "but we've always managed to work around it and we've always made the steak the star." It has proven to be effective as people remember the name because it's so unusual. It has also had an additional benefit... people stopped calling her Chris. (Sadly, Ruth passed away nearly one year ago.)

[Deja Q]

33. ...

Crisp
Truck
Outsource


I'll think of more later...

[SPQR]

45. Ugh... I hate "crisp" and I REALLY hate

"crisply"

and

plump (don't even mention "plumped")
placket
luscious
tender
tissue (in the non-Kleenex sense)
bolus

I'm too sleepy to think of any more....

[Arugula Latte]

35. I have a hard time pronouncing "rural."

[Z_I_Peevey]

50. Ha! I can't say 'Will Rogers' without getting

all 'toy boat, toy boat, toy boat' inside my head.

[AccessGranted]

36. Hunker Down . . .

until first light

Gaaaaaaaaaaaawd, I hate that expression

[Elidor]

40. Evacuee

[nutsnberries]

41. sebaceous and opine (2nd one cuz it's Bush's favorite new word)

[DrZeeLit]

42. Can anybody really pronounce... LIAISON?

I can't do it well. And then if I think about it too hard, I really can't.

My mom can't say Hawaii.
So, we try to move the conversation to the islands all the time.
ha ha ha

[Dangerously Amused]

43. I can't believe nobody came up with PHLEGHM yet!

Oh sorry. I meant the WORD.

Eeewww.

[benny05]

44. only a few at the moment

golddigger
slime
drudge
smarmy
vacuous
dagger

[wildhorses]

46. broken

breakup
we need to talk
busy
work
you're fired
may I see your license

[wildhorses]

47. sputum

feces

[KitchenWitch]

49. exudate

intercourse

infiltrate

[Z_I_Peevey]

51. Carcass.

Retch.
Skin, when preceded by 'comfortable inside his/her.'
Detergent.

[swag]

52. I'm surprised "moist" hasn't made an appearance.

I suppose the kids are probably trying to make "moist" cool now.

Actually, it is pretty cool when combined with "towelette."

Towelette. Now that word is elegance itself.

[AlCzervik]

54. blogosphere, Synergy-when used in corporate speak

Wal-Mart.

[swag]

55. And nobody has mentioned "meme" yet either.

I like the Susan Blackmore's book The Meme Machine, as well as the Richard Dawkins that inspired it.

I, like others, have just grown to hate seeing threads here with the word "meme" in the subject line.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme

[swag]

57. "semen," except when used in poetry by teenage girls.

[Taxloss]

58. No words, but usage drives me mad - "access" and "impact" are NOT VERBS!

And all forms of punctuation and grammar error, especially breaches of the less/fewer rule, breaches of the which/that rule and apostrophe crimes.

[swag]

59. Wow. Your stomach must be a knot of boiling rage most days.

[Taxloss]

60. It is. But I work as a writer and editor, so I get to

take it out on the text.

Sub-literate use of English has been considered a "problem" since the first attempt was made to codify the language. The fact is, we're cursed and blessed with the world's most adaptable and malleable language - no other language in history has evolved and changed so quickly. This makes it the perfect global language. It also makes it a nightmare for pedants like me.

[swag]

61. "Less" v. "fewer" is a huge problem,

particularly on signs at supermarket express check-outs. And among newscasters, of course.

I also dislike "there's" as a contraction for "there are."

I apologize to you in advance for the many crimes I will perpetrate upon the language in future posts.

[Taxloss]

66. We all do it. The important thing is to be aware of it.

It's the people who have never even been taught the rules who worry me.

[billyskank]

62. I think access has become a verb now

Impact is probably on the way. Leverage, my personal bète noir, cannot be far behind. :(

[Taxloss]

63. Access (vb) will be in dictionaries soon, yes.

"Impact" will take longer. It hasn't made full transition to popular usage.

[DrZeeLit]

67. Google is now a verb. I googled it. (doncha love language?) n/t

[Taxloss]

68. Well, that's a neologism, not an existing word perverted into a new form.

In the UK, "text" has become a verb - "I'll text you", "I'm texting a friend".

It means "sending a text message on a mobile phone". It's a corruption; but it describes a new phenomenon so I'm tempted to let it pass. But it brings out the William Safire in me.

[achtung_circus]

64. Girth.

One of those Anglo-Saxon words.

[DarienComp]

69. nest-egg.

.

[ET Awful]

70. Nobody said "mandate"???

Y'all are slipping :).

[Jade Fox]

71. meal and luncheon

Not sure where the food theme comes from, but I hate both those words.