Words and Phrases

 

This is probably a list I will add to as I think of them... words and phrases that drive me crazy, make me cringe, or I just don't like.

Chunky/Chunker in reference to books.  "This book has 800 pages, it's a chunker."  Ugh. 

Babe referring to an infant or a hot person in a bikini. No idea why this particular use bugs me, but Babe the Pig and Babe Ruth do not...

Obese

Tea towel The husband has started calling dish towels, tea towels... we don't use them for anything tea related, stop calling them that!  Also they don't go upstairs in the linen closet, they go downstairs in the kitchen hence the word dish.  Dish=kitchen.  

Crotch goblins  Ew.

Wafd  This is the name of a bank... Pronounced Wah-fed.  It looks like a typo, and until they add in the missing 'e' I won't bank there. I just can't.

Most acronyms that I have to think about to figure out  IYKYK is the most recent offender.  

Spigot

Phlegm

'Beat a dead horse' Please don't. 

'Get off your high horse'   

'Rode hard, and put away wet' Way too many words used for what it actually means.  Apparently phrases having to do with horses irritate me...

Crick  The word has two e's therefore it's creeeeek not crick, dagnabbit!  

Chide The H uses this one frequently with the kids... like nails on a chalkboard. 

Dongle Stupidest made up word ever.  There's nothing like having to send an email that says 'my dongle is broken,' to customer service. For the record, Fitbit didn't give a dongle, and I ended up buying a different brand of fitness watch... 

Qwest We no longer have phone service with them, but when I did, I died a little each time I had to write a check, and put that stupid name on there.  

'In these uncertain times.'

Glamping

Cray Cray

Amazeballs

Awesomesauce

Peeps

Yassss and Wassssupp add more annoyance for each extra 's' in both of those words.

And a whole long list of swear words, and names for body parts that I will leave to the imagination... 

To be continued.