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In reply to the discussion: What words do you dislike? [View all]BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)100. oh yeah...I hate how Women's magazines or even actual women
say "tummy" all the time. HATE IT HATE IT HATE IT.
It's like those tampon and pad samples you used to get in the mail, decades ago, addressed to "The LADY of the house", in cursive writing that, if it could have made a sound, would have simpered. UGH!!!!!!! *gack* *SPEW*
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The "P" words (the five letter AND the eight-letter) that describe a vagina.
HughBeaumont
Apr 2012
#2
It's not the words so much as the pin-headed hosers that utter them that rub my fur the wrong way.
bluesbassman
Apr 2012
#17
"grow", when used as a transitive verb for anything other then plants/flowers, etc.
HERVEPA
Apr 2012
#18
Of all the words I hate, moist isnt one of them, in fact I lie the sound of moist.
snagglepuss
Apr 2012
#63
"Should" and "ought." I've had enough of those for the rest of my life, thank you very much. nt
raccoon
Apr 2012
#78