Words I hate!

Now then, two words that I'm not even sure are actual words.
I hear them a lot on American crime things i watch.

Leery - meaning what i would call wary.
Rambunctious - meaning a similar word that I can't bring to mind, now.

Aveline

Hollibobs and vaycay? Both awful! In fact they give me the ick! (Oops sorry)

Never heard either - yet. It has taken me several minutes to work out what they are corruptions of.

Not very clear on 'picky bits'. When we don't have an organised meal, evening meal after a large lunch out for example, when people aren't that hungry but just fossick for themselves, when and if they want anything, we call it a 'pick and mix' meal. is that picky bits?

Agree with everything on Sago's list, ditto fur babies and Rainbow bridge.

I will add, I am one with Kirsty Allsopp in disliking saying someone 'passed' when they actually died.

Finger food? Picnic food?

Picky bits was very informal; its probably all weighed and measured out into protein counts, fat content etc now.
In my flat it just meant whatever i could dredge up out of the cupboard/fridge.

gosh - so many on here i agree with.

I detest the phrase ‘baby mamma’ - seriously disrespectful to the mother of your child.

Haitch - ugh
Hollybobs - are we all 5?
Fur babies and Over the Rainbow Bridge!
‘Are you joking me?’ - where has that come from?

Just about everything mentioned here is annoying

Glenfinnan. Are you joking me is a phrase I have heard and used all my life. I don't think it is a new saying.

It sounds American

Mama bear. 🤑

I predict that 'deo' (abbreviation of deodorant, and pronounced with the stress on the 'e') will be doing the rounds next, having just heard it used on a TV commercial. Unless it has already been around a while but had escaped my notice until now.
Either way, I hate it already!

Obsessed.
Nibidy likes anything; they're obsessed with it.

I really had no idea how many times I internally wince when listening to people talk as so many of the things you've all listed struck a chord. I'm also guilty of using one or two of them as I work with older teenagers in a home and have to de- and re-construct their sentences in my head to understand what they're telling me, especially when they end it with, 'd'ja get me?'

No, not always!

I'm fairly certain some of them think I'm a bit slow as my brain processes what they've said, which is probably for the best as a lot of the time they're being somewhat economical with the truth and it stops my jaw dropping at the audacity.

I did make one laugh when he street talked a load of gobbledegook at me a year or so ago and I asked him to try again in English (but only because I knew him well enough to know he'd find it funny!)

'Haitch' and 'another thing coming' are my biggest bugbears. I find myself muttering 'aitch' and 'think'. The latter was on a post made by an MP recently and I shook my head in disbelief.

Musky17

I will never say someone “passed” ( what? an exam or test ?) or “passed away” rather than died. When did that euphemism creep in?

Fair enough, but having been with both my father and my husband at their death, it was more like a peaceful passing from one state to another. In the same way that my beloved dogs «fell asleep « only never to wake up.
We are so used to violent depictions of death that I feel a peaceful version can be justified.
So I can take passed away, passed on and IMO there are bigger things to get worked up about.

You know ball, Maw
Just learnt that from my boy.

MissAdventure

You know ball, Maw
Just learnt that from my boy.

'learnt'

No need for the face.
Not in the mood.

In the UK, both learnt and learned are correct as the past tense and past participle of "learn". However, learnt is traditionally preferred in British English, while learned is the standard in American English. Both remain widely used and understood across the UK.

MissAdventure

You know ball, Maw
Just learnt that from my boy.

You know ball ?????

Is it good? or bad

It's good.
It means you know what's what.
You're on the ball, I suppose, which sounds just as nonsensical.

So what do you call a toilet?

Gobsmacked. I hate it.
Oh my god. I hate that too.

Dreadwitch

So what do you call a toilet?

The loo. Plain and simple

MissAdventure

It's good.
It means you know what's what.
You're on the ball, I suppose, which sounds just as nonsensical.

Thank you ! Huge relief! ⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️

‘Step’ foot - instead of ‘set’ foot. winds me right up.

Reach out doesn't really rile me, but I immediately think of the song....
I'll be there! To love and comfort you-oo.
I'll be there! With a love that will see us through....