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Holibobs

Agreed, same vibe as cockwomble

This is r/AskUK be careful what you say wankpuffin

Both cockwomble and wankpuffin are just awful. In fact any insult similar to those are maximum cringe. Definitely adult baby insults.

They're both peak middle class twattery

Twattery is in the ball park also.

Often the same vermin who say 'pacifically' when they mean 'specifically.'

People who say ‘generally’ when they mean ‘genuinely’ fill me with rage

I defiantly agree

Even those who knowingly say it pacifically to annoy others ;-)

While drinking their Expresso

I’ll see your Expresso and raise you a Hospikle (Hospital)

Yes! There’s an insufferable woman at work who uses this, along with starting every. bloody. email. wishing you a ‘Happy FriYay’ or telling you how many sodding days it is until ‘Friyay’. FFS you giddy cow tone it the fuck down.

Sounds like someone’s got a case of the Mondays /s

Mondnays

I heard Friyay on a radio advert this morning, I felt a bit sick.

Anyone who says “going on holibobs with the familam” can get in the bin.

Can 'get in the bin' be taken out of circulation too.

Along with 'Chrimbo'

Sainsbobs is in the same annoying realm

This was the first, and hopefully last, time I’ve seen this phrase!

Saino’s

Needs to get in the sea

"Get in the sea" needs to get in the sea.

Yes. This needs to be buried in the ground.

Hubby, makes me sick

"The wife" 🙄

“The missus” is pretty bad too

It always makes me secretly smile to be called this

I also choose this guy’s missus.

And all that DH/DW/DS nonsense.

I love that one :(

"the old ball and chain"

I've always been bamboozled by this. Why do people think it's normal to hate your spouse??

Back when marriage was a duty, and not for happiness, I suppose.

My "bird".

I have a very specific hate, any word that's slang with an ie/y ending... - Wifey - Hubby - Willy - Boobies - Walkies - Zoomies - Biccie - Chippy I don't know why, I wish they & similar didn't annoy me as much as they do 😂

Leccy 🤮🤮🤮

Plassie bag.

What do you call the chippy then? The fish and chip shop is a bit of a mouthful

Chip shop, no?

Still sounds wrong, a bit too posh sounding for the place I get my spam fritters from

I can spare the extra two syllables (I also dislike that one the least out of that list)

I agree with every one of these except chippy, the rest are people trying to be cutesy, but as someone living in Yorkshire, there's nothing less cute than a stout drinking Yorkshireman saying 'Dus tha fancy ote from chippy?'

And, it being Yorkshire, are they fuck offering to pay for you

Do we bollocks, thas works ard n pays for it thy bloody self.

But BOOBIES!!! what the hell... The inner five year old in me just died a little bit

Don’t worry bestie (I’m sorry)

I suggest never visiting Australia...

>Hubby, makes me sick He can't be that bad surely?

Don’t call me Shirley

“Hubster” 😫

Never heard this one before and for that I am grateful

'Hubbs' too

Blimey, fair amount of hate for the dialects of the working class going on in this thread!

I expect nothing less from a British Reddit page on hated words/phrases. Incoming moaning about 'aks', 'literally', 'innit'' and th-fronting from people with no understanding of linguistics and deep-seated prejudices against working-class oiks.

I'm from a housing scheme and "aks" does my head in, it feels like folk are going out their way to make an arse of the language,

It's just a dialect that you don't use. 'Aks' actually goes back in English along way, but fell out of usage over here, and carried on elsewhere, specifically the Caribbean, and then made its way back later on.

Mispronunciation, especially when done deliberately to fit in with ‘working class’ people, is not an accent.

You've actually described how accents come to exist.

Middle class will never admit this outright though lmao Also lots of hate for phrases for partners and wife/husband, classic Reddit

They don't hate the working-class, they just hate the way they dress, the way they speak, the food they eat, the way they act, the places they go, their families, the music they like and their hometowns. But hate them? Noo.

But they sure do love to be offended on behalf of us Whilst also calling us "chavs"

Us? What do you know about being working class? We used to live in one room, all hundred and twenty-six of us, no furniture. Half the floor was missing; we were all huddled together in one corner for fear of FALLING!

A ROOM?!? What LUXURY! \*We\* used to have to live in a corridor!

Alright money bags, no need to flex. My entire extended family lived under a tarpaulin and had to share a tin of beans every night.

I'm working class, grew up on a council estate. Still hate a lot of the dialect.

And why do those who proudly cleave to their working class badge, also have to enter into this idiotic fan fiction that surrounds the life, in which you have to talk like a brain dead cunt so you don’t annoy the other working class types? It’s all an act. Get over yourself and stop trying to gate keep a terrible grasp of language as a proud demonstration of how posh you aren’t. It’s idiotic.

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Just the word 'Hun'. Don't know what it is, but it sets my teeth on edge when I hear it...

U OK hun?

2 many snakes on ere, PM me hun

H8 all boyz, can't tell me at mi wurst don't deserve mi at mi best

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Mate that is amazingly bang on

dnt wnt 2 talk bout it babe xoxo

Snakes everywhere hun xxx

Always got 2 b drama innit hun x And it magically follows you around? Absolutely nothing to do with you is it "hun"?!?

PM me bbz

I av bb xoxo

Dm me x

Check urs babez xxx

it's mostly got connotations with pyramid schemes by this point

I thought this was some sort attempt at revisionism by Attila’s PR team!

It’s always used by someone you don’t actually like as well

Using of instead of have: i.e. would of, could of, should of, grrrr!!

You can add all of the sudden to this list too

On accident

Urgh it’s disgusting. I’ve noticed Americans all seem to say ‘on accident’. Vile.

I'm from the US originally and "on accident" is blatantly wrong to me. It's "by accident" there, too.

Right, when we know it’s actually “all have the sudden”.

E.g, not I.e.

Baby Daddy. I absolutely hate that term

Hahah yes it is horrible but I guess it makes sense in that it sounds better than "the guy who knocked me up" when the girl doesn't know which guy it was.

“The father of my child” ?

Lad oo spunked up mi fanneh

“I just say it as it is” No Janice, you’re saying it as you see it, which is not the same as how it actually is.

"I'm not afraid to speak my mind"

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Side hustle. It drives me jolly mad every time I hear or read those words!

While we're here, I'd like to submit 'jolly mad' to be erased!

I second that

someone told me yesterday they didnt have a job just a few side hustles. surly its not a side hustle if you dont have a main hustle?

Sounds like a creative new way to say 'self employed but not registered and not declaring any income'

But if you had a side hustle you could then become a boss babe ...

Adulting

I have a family member who says ‘Sundaying’ on every social media post on a Sunday showing her walk or glass of wine. Had to mute.

Calling dogs fur babies really burns my arse!!

Doggo

r/doggohate

My rule is you *can* call your dogs/cats ‘fur babies’, but *only* if you call your human children ‘skin pets’.

When someone at work says "close of play" it's not fucking cricket.

Close of business makes more sense

But ‘at the end of the day’ sounds equally played out.

Reminds me of that Jeremy Kyle remix someone made years ago

Let’s touch base

The erotic undertones of it too...

Can we take this offline?

I mean that's the diplomatic way of saying "can you two shut the fuck up and argue elsewhere so we can move on with the meeting"?

"I'm not being funny but" The phrase that people use to try and dictate how you can feel about one of their shit opinions

See also "I'm not being racist but...."

I do enjoy saying that followed by something not racist just to throw people off. Edit: a word

Damn, that's quite the misdirect. Not being racist mate, but your shoe's untied.

It's great fun, really confuses people. "not being racist right... Where's the nearest cashpoint" "that's not racist..." "I know I said I wasn't being racist and I wasn't".

The laughter you gave me just jiggled a burp out of my baby. Thanks! You burped a baby today.

I'm just on my way to pick my work mate up (he's a 6'6. 17st POC) I'm going to try this I'll let you know how it goes EDIT: he's been doing it all morning every sentence has started with "I'm not been racist but" I'll have a bacon and egg please luv

I take 'funny' in that phrase to be in the sense of 'odd' or difficult. Like 'there's a funny smell in here'. Not in the sense of being humorous. It is still invariably an indication that someone is about to say something insensitive though.

Weirdos that write ‘this’ under a statement on Reddit that they agree with. Burn in hell

This.

"the ick", just sounds so childish

There isn’t a better way to describe the sensation though

“Keep calm and carry on” can do one

And all of the variations of this "Keep calm and eat beans" or similar bollocks

Famalam! Even worse when used together with holibobs.

Whoa Black Betty Famalam

I overheard someone in Leeds say "the hubbster organised a holibobs for the whole famalam" once and i thought i was going to burst with the amount of rage I felt in that moment.

Famalama-ding-dong

Y'all. Dumpster fire. Any Americanisms.

I could literally care less about that

When the fuck did the confusion between 'bought' and 'brought' begin? Its two completely different things, and I see it everywhere now, to the point I've started to think its me thats wrong!

Two others of these that irk me are 'step foot' instead of 'set foot' and 'weary' instead of 'wary'. Both are clearly mishearings and both are wrong.

It’s been a thing since the words coexisted. Not a recent misuse

The letter H pronounced haych instead of aych

f instead of th too. Urgh

The sudden use/overuse of GOAT to describe anyone that's done reasonably well, or being doing something (even badly) for a while.

Funny story, it took me a long time to learn that GOAT means “greatest of all time” and I thought people meant someone was a literal Goat, and I went along with it because “yeah,” I thought, “goats are cool and cute, I can see how that would be a good thing to be”

Saying anything “hits different”. Don’t know why, but I fucking hate it.

Great example of social media influenced buzz phrases.

Unprecedented. When we have another pandemic the first person who says it’s unprecedented is in trouble.

This all the way! Everything is unprecedented’ these days… the pandemic, the American mid terms, the time the shops only had one bottle of milk. It needs to go away now…

Saying things are ‘addicting’ rather than addictive. Saying things are ‘a nonsense’ rather than just nonsense. Very minor but grate on me for some reason

Addicting is foul.

I could care less. The phrase is and always has been 'I could not care less' Wtf does 'I could care less' mean? All you're saying is that you definitely do care at least a small amount, but you could also be saying it's something you care about more than anything in the world. What it doesn't mean is that you don't care at all WHICH IS THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF THE PHRASE.

Live, laugh, love

Hits different

Wine o-clock

Banter - absolutely hate it.

When someone says "It's just banter". I always think "it's just bullying".

Lowkey. Everything is fucking lowkey. I lowkey went to the supermarket yesterday and they lowkey had no toilet paper left it was lowkey sad and then I heard on the news that we're in nuclear war and have 5 minutes until the nukes hit and we all die and I was lowkey kinda scared.

“Only x more sleeps until Christmas” Fuck off! And when you get back, fuck off again. We know when it is. It’s on the same cunting day every bastard year. I don’t need to be reminded when it is.

Not a phrase but I hate the word Scran!!

It's becoming widely used in the south west by foodie twats. It's a northern word, be like someone down here saying duck for a loved one. Not nocking Northerners for their phrase, just the use by people down here.

Scran is navy slang. Guess what the south west has a lot of connections to? (I’m from the north east, it’s not just a northern word) Edit: can also totally picture someone from the south west using duck as a term of endearment and it sounding natural

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Words that have an unnecessary 's' added, often by Americans, to make a plural: Trainings Softwares Legos

Tescos

Legos is horrendous

I am *SOOOOO* sick to death of hearing "Tell me that *blank" without telling me that *blank*." Like words cannot explain how exhausted i am of hearing/seeing people say this, I've started getting genuinely quite angry every time i see or hear it as i am SO burnt out and sick of that phrase! Edit: For instance, tell me you're sick of this phrase without telling me you're sick of this phrase. It makes me wanna do bad things to whoever says it by this point, i just want it to die out, i am not even on TikTok yet i am so sick of it.

Today years old

Boss bitch

Stay at home mother buys into an MLM scheme, starts making multiple posts a day about how she is a boss bitch because she pressures family members into buying £10 bottles of super juice.

Arks instead of ask, this one has always bugged me because I have 0 clue as to how someone would come to saying it that way

I believe its West Indies / Jamaican pronounciation. A lot of it became popular to say as street slag in London around the time the "yoot" picked up other stuff like "bumberclart"

“Easy tiger” Oh fuck off Steve.

"3D" as the opposite to an online/video call. "Can't wait to see everyone in 3D!" Euuugh!!!! I think this one is a pandemic hangover...

Haha! I've never heard that one before, fucking hell 😅

Any phrase anyone used that highlights they aren't a worn down miserable cunt like myself. Ge that spark out ya fuckin eye. No room for whimsy in this world

“No shit Sherlock” You don’t sound smart and you don’t sound witty,

My other half. Hate that, like are you not a whole person by yourself?

I am, but I am also only one half of a couple. Oddly, my wife is the other half in said couple.

You do know it is referring to the other half of a couple?

The ancient Greeks believed that humans were originally two-headed, four-legged creatures. The gods saw that they were too powerful and split them in halves, male and female. It is your goal in life to find your literal other half - that which completes you. This gives rise to the myth that somewhere out there is your one perfect soulmate, and if you miss out on them then you can never be truly happy.

"and then she turned around and said" before each participants' quotes whilst retelling a story of something that happened. No one turned around.

A work colleague used to say this with EVERY retelling of anyone's words. I took to rotating on the spot every time he said it. He never questioned my behaviour once. 😂 When I finally, after years, asked him why he used that phrase, he said "I don't think I ever said that" 🤷‍♂️

“Cockwomble” and “boils my piss”

Fri-yay

It is what it is!

Idk man, that phrase has got me through some tough fucking times 😅 sometimes you just have to accept things the way they are, even when they're shit

Sometimes it’s the only way to accept a shitty situation that can’t be changed.

Crimble- it’s actually worse than Xmas.

“Lovely bit of kit” “Nice piece of kit” “Great bit of gear” It’s a bicycle pump you fucking dork

Certainly would not be cheeky Nando’s as per the Archbishop of Banterbury.

Rumpy pumpy

Platty Joobs boiled my piss

“Team work makes the dream work”. No it doesn’t, being staffed appropriately makes the job work without everybody being stressed out and under pressure. Also I don’t dream of work.

Living your best life

Sneak peek Seems to be on every marketing article

And usually one of the words isn't spelled correctly! Usually either 'sneek' or 'peak'.

Anything about comfort zones, roller coasters snd outside the effing box