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I have an irrational hatred towards certain words such as the following:
stink, nice, mice, cute, moist, pretty, cringe, once, may, chair, bland, Valentine, and there are probably more.
Stinky mice are not nice and cute. They live in moist dens and it's pretty cringe once they may chew the bland wood of chairs. There are probably more, but I saw this on Valentine's day
I don't mind those words. A dislike for the word 'nice' was inculcated into me by teachers, though. It's a bland word that you tend to use just to be polite - a 'social fuction', rather than a word.
I can't stand the word 'panties' or 'baggy' (as in, a little bag). There's absolutely no need to make them sound cutesy and child-friendly like 'kitties' and 'puppies and 'doggies' and 'daddies' and 'kiddies'. 'Baggies' tend to be single-use plastic things destined to pollute the environment, and things that go into 'baggies' are often anything but cute. They don't deserve to be a separately-defined thing, and especially not something that sounds like it's for children. And I mean, it's bad enough that you call underwear 'pants' but adding a feminine diminutive is overkill. The task of covering my genitals is serious business.
I do not like green eggs and ham.
I do not like them in a house.
I do not like them with a mouse.
I do not like them here or there.
I do not like them anywhere.
I do not like them Sam-I-am.
Yummy. It's immature. There is a thesaurus of beautiful words to describe delicious food.
Tummy. It's a stomach.
Scrummy. See the first word.
I don't really have it towards words as much as specific noises or ways of talking.
Though, I will say that I find it extremely annoying when people tell me (or others) to "chill" in the most condescending tone, probably because I got that treatment a lot as a kid when I had a valid reason to be upset and no one felt like hearing me out. Hearing "CHILL!!!1!!1!" when I was in the middle of SSRI-induced panic attacks in my teens was the least helpful and most enraging thing ever, too. Or being told to "chill" when someone did something clearly unacceptable and I was understandably pissed about it. Let's see how "chill" these people are when the tables are turned on them. 🙄
I can't stand the word 'snogging'. It's like a time portal back to my red-faced teenage years.