25 Words And Phrases We Want To Retire

Susannah Breslin
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 11:02 am: [report]

Can I add “sexytimes”?

Riley
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 11:05 am: [report]

Thank you.

Don’t forget “LOL” or “Uber”

Christinaval
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 11:05 am: [report]

I HATE TOTES!

LunaLena
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 11:09 am: [report]

I would like to nominate “baby bump” for the retirement list as well.  Seriously, I hate that term.  It’s not cute.

Riley
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 11:09 am: [report]

I’ve seen “totes” over-used more on this site than any other publication since I became literate 6 months ago.  Easily in 3 or 4 articles a day.

VsegdaOdna
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 11:09 am: [report]

I dont think “Hella” is going away anytime soon so long as NorCal exists.

Kiki T
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 11:09 am: [report]

“My bad” needs to go

catie
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 11:10 am: [report]

“you go girlfriend”

Lilypie
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 11:10 am: [report]

Wow, I can honestly say I don’t use any of those.  Perhaps I’m ready to move to Boca…

CheeeeEEEEse
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 11:14 am: [report]

The Frisky has implicated itself in it’s own crazieness! Oh noes! Kerblamo!

Raugiel
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 11:15 am: [report]

I second LunaLeena’s nomination of “baby bump”.

EnfantDeLune
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 11:15 am: [report]

I’m guilty of using “hot mess” from time to time. Sometimes it’s just so fitting.

Random, but “Staycation” grates on my last nerve. I despise this “uber-ridic” term.

I’d like to add “beef.” As in, “Do you still have beef with your old roomie that stole your Nine West boots?”

GreenAura
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 11:22 am: [report]

@VsegdaOdna: NorCal may overuse Hella, but that term originated in Vegas.  After living there for over a decade, I can’t help but use it at least a few times a day (sadly). 

And I like gettin my anything on.  Tonight, I’ll be gettin my cardio on.  I might look like a hot mess afterwards, but it ain’t date night, obvi. LMAO.

VannaMarie
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 11:29 am: [report]

Please please please add “prego” to the list! What ever happened to dignified terms for this state of being, such as “expecting” or “pregnant”?

msu.umich
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 11:30 am: [report]

@GreenAura - hahahahahaha

Brooke
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 11:31 am: [report]

“FML” is at the top of my list.

calenia
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 11:32 am: [report]

Hmm, the main source I see most of these words in my daily life is Frisky. Pot, meet kettle.

joyy
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 11:40 am: [report]

@calenia - um, that’s addressed in the very first sentence of the post.  Try actually reading the whole post first.

I agree with adding prego and FML to the list, and I have to say that seeing “totes” and “obvi” kind of “makes me throw up in my mouth a little”.

I do like hella though, and considering I use it pretty rarely, I’m not booting it from my personal lexicon.

And didn’t “staycation” make it into the dictionary or get some kind of ‘word of the year’ thing?

writergirl
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 11:40 am: [report]

@calenia—I was going to say the same thing.

bogart4017
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 11:43 am: [report]

“Wanna come with?” (are we so lazy we can’t complete sentences?)
“closure” (in death there is no such thing)
“Ghetto Fabulous” (theres nothing fabulous about living in the ghetto)
“swag” or “swagger” (we’re starting to run out of words here)
“Yo” (its not to be used for punctuation, ok?)

workerbee
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 11:45 am: [report]

am I the only one who doesn’t know what totes and FML mean?  Unless totes are referring to the tote bags or the brand…

Coral
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 11:45 am: [report]

I have seen 22 of the 25 on The Frisky. Can you say hypocritical? It’s not like many of these words are going to go away anytime soon, and they will just as likely keep appearing on this site.

Je Nais Se Twat
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 11:46 am: [report]

Meh (i’m also seeing ‘mehpic’ floating around)
Hubby
Wifey
Canoodling
Bro- anything i.e. Broseph Goebbels, Brosie & The Pussycats etc
Baby Bump Watch

Amelia McDonell-Parry
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 11:48 am: [report]

Hey! We never said we didn’t use these words up until now. But now we are retiring them. TOTALLY.

joyy
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 11:51 am: [report]

lol, at least I know it isn’t just my coworkers who fail to read what is in front of them.  People, the opening paragraph for the list openly admits overuse of the listed words BY FRISKY STAFF.  Read.

calenia
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 11:51 am: [report]

@Joyy, they said they were tired of hearing them, not that they acknowledged perpetuating said words. There’s a huge difference.

Riley
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 11:53 am: [report]

@Amelia - This will be totes crazy.

Coral
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 11:56 am: [report]

Okay. Good. I have always hated the words, ‘obvi’, ‘totes,’ and the likes. My brother says them to annoy me. Haha.

mayorbubbles
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 11:58 am: [report]

I say 5, 9, 11, 12, 15, 17, 21, and 22. Except “peen” is “peener”. hahahaha

Joey Daytona
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 12:03 pm: [report]

My pet peeve word is now: Lockdown.
“School on Lockdown”, “Hubby on Lockdown”, “Lockdown for Haters”...
The over-used phrase for me is: “Join the conversation.”
We used to have debates, with a winner and a loser, now we have a non-stop conversation where, due to moral relativism and subjectivism, any crazy idea is given a listen whwn they should be dismissed and the speaker shouted down.

spanishbutterfly
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 12:19 pm: [report]

I use a few of those words that i dont think will be retired anytime soon# 4,5,15,18 and 20.. im a lil confused wat does “totes” mean ??

Coral
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 12:20 pm: [report]

@spanishbutterfly: Totes = Totally.

joyy
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 12:23 pm: [report]

@calenia - read the WHOLE sentence.  “we here at The Frisky are so over hearing that whenever one of us utters one, someone else says, ‘Can we retire that word yet?’”

Coral
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 12:28 pm: [report]

@joyy: Uttering is not the same as writing, as in articles on this site. Just pointing that out.

Wendy Atterberry
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 12:29 pm: [report]

Baby Bump! I meant to put that on the list! Thanks to everyone who mentioned that. We TOTALLY need to retire baby bump!

lilo
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 12:42 pm: [report]

I nominate “WOOT”—sadly over-used in FaceBook status. Any use is over-use.

MsMami
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 12:52 pm: [report]

This doesn’t make sense. How can you say you want to retire these words, when you’re the one who used them to? I guess we should all hale to the Frisky and there demands!

Croutons
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 12:53 pm: [report]

While we’re at it, can we please retire the whole elasticity of the English language, as well as humanity’s youthful predispostion to slang?

absoluttres11
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 02:11 pm: [report]

Vlogging = some sort of video blogging.

@VannaMarie I second “prego” - awful.

Squidtermz
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 02:20 pm: [report]

Diva - hate it… always have… always will.

PhillyGirl13
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 02:22 pm: [report]

Impactful - THE most ridiculous and meaningless corporate buzz word I have ever heard. 

Oh - and that threw up in my mouth line - that is SO 2004. I was over it about 10 minutes after it came out of Melody from Hey Dude’s mouth in the movie Dodgeball.

spatula
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 02:22 pm: [report]

what the hell is ZOMG?

Kathls
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 02:27 pm: [report]

The phrase I’d like to add is not used so much everyday, and will probably draw some comments, but I’m putting it out there.

Can we for the love of god end the “generation Y entitlement” phrase and all variations there of?  Seriously, this topic has been beat to death and then some.  I just read someone else referring to it elsewhere on the site, so I had to throw it in.  If I read or hear one more story about Gen Y being entitled I might poke my eyes out.

Every generation thinks the next one has it easier and expects something for nothing.  So can we move along and find another horse to beat?  Hell, I think the generation after me had it easy because they didn’t have to use typewriters, but I’m not going to run my cake hole about it all the time and hitch my pants up to my chin while I do it.

I too would like to exorcise ‘baby bump’ and prego from society’s vocabulary.  Nothing cute about them, and they cause me to uncontrollably roll my eyes.

And I also want to know what ZOMG means.  I am so uncool ...

ikimashokie
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 02:32 pm: [report]

@Kathls:  from what I understand, zomg is someone who got a bit excited typing “Omg”.

My choice?  “This”.  Such a pain to read a comment and see that it has 55 replies… all of which are either “THIS!” or “ZOMG THIS”.  If you agree with a comment so wholeheartedly, can’t you just say “I agree 100%!”  or something like that?  Why not leave it as is?  The person’s said what you want to say, do you REALLY need to leave a one-worded comment of affirmation?

Also, “really?”/“seriously?” said in that obnoxious rising tone gets my goat as well.

Riley
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 02:44 pm: [report]

ZOMG, like all the rest of them came from the illustrious computer geek world.  Just takes a while for the rest of the world to adopt the language and deem it cool.  OMG/LOL/ZOMG/ROFL is so ‘98. 

spatula
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 02:53 pm: [report]

that’s great. WHAT DOES IT STAND FOR, is what I meant. The others you alllll mentioned are ACRONYMS. Does anyone know what ZOMG actually stands for?

Riley
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 02:56 pm: [report]

@Spatula - Just an emphasis put on Oh My God.  More to be annoying than anything.  You are reading too much into an acronym used by a world with a collective IQ of 20.

spatula
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 03:02 pm: [report]

@Riley: I refuse to believe it. I feel like the guy in your avatar. My brain cannot wrap itself around an acronym that stands for nothing! I DEMAND to know what the Z stands for!!

OK, I’m (mostly) kidding. But it bothers me greatly.

retro chic
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 03:27 pm: [report]

Headstone and flowers on all the above. Is Frisky going to “retire” these for us via its censor robot? Or at least run them thru (dang) a spell-out translator? Okie-doke by me.

However, I don’t mind abbreviations as long as they’re nonemotive (express yourself!), and are easy shorthand for space-hogging connectors, etc; ie, FWIW, OTOH… Also, I usually love the creativity of made-up or hybrid words, but some must go.

Above all, #4: The “I just threw up a little…” one always disgusted me. Total buzz kill (crap, is that one too?) for reading on.

Also, ahem, how about enumerative ‘zine article titles or lists. ALL mags are guilty of this (this isn’t personal, Frisky girls):

* 47 ways to…
* 25 things that will…
* 30 days of…

Drop that. It’s *OK* to not affix a numeric value to a topic’s title to make it appealing and valid. No one’s counting or comparing! RIP

@GreenAura: FTW!* Hahaha
*Yep, add that one, too.

Warning: this comment contains 10± infractions that may be considered harmful to your lexical health.

amorsalado
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 07:52 pm: [report]

@spatula: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=zomg “The Z doesn’t stand for anything, but rather is added onto the O, thus making it pronounced “ZOH MY GOD!!1”“

And I hate the term Baby Daddy.

CaleeKay
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 08:12 pm: [report]

the zomg came from trying to use the shift key while typing ‘omg’ resulting in zomg.

alot of these acronyms and such did come from computer world, but not all of them have an iq of 20. alot of these things come from mess-ups while typing and therefor adapt them because they are funny, and then the rest of the world feels cool using them, when in reality we dont even think its cool, its like an inside joke the rest of the world tries to use.

pwn is another one that i still find hilarious, but do see too much of.. probably because i am one of those gamergals.

DancingGeek
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 08:23 pm: [report]

If someone sets it up, they’re getting a “That’s what she said” Can’t resist it, won’t try- that’s how I roll.

retro chic
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 08:32 pm: [report]

“Cougar” is mainly funny to me because it is the only time in nature when the prey stalks the predator.* But, on feminist principle: I object! Ditch it.

* in my/friends’ experience. Usually.

Shriekback68
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 08:39 pm: [report]

What, no mention of MILF yet? Wow.

retro chic
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 09:08 pm: [report]

@Shriekback68 – Did you miss the post: “Cougars, Pumas and TWITS: Which ridiculous female stereotype are you?”

You might be surprised at some of the responses for MILF – an add-on to the list. [snickering]

http://www.thefrisky.com/post/246-cougars-pumas-and-twits-which-ridiculous-female-stereotype-are-you/

magenta generation
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 09:30 pm: [report]

The word “SWAGGER” or “SWAGGA” aka “SWAG” or worst “SWAG-SPLASH!”  Most of the people who use this colloquialism do not have it! People who go to the club and say “I turn my SWAG on” or ” I hit them with the SWAG-SPLASH,” and are over 25 need their pubic hair ripped out with tweezers! 

SWAGGER and its variations are arrogant and overrated, much like a lot of mainstream Hip Hop; where it is frequently and vehemently used to describe the attitude of many mediocre MC’s who carry the bravado of Nas or Notorious B.I.G. when they are actually L.A.M.E.  The word reached its pinnacle when T.I. released “Swagger Like Us,” containing a loop from MIA “Paper Planes,” it is a song containing 4 of the biggest egos in Hip Hop ( Jay Z, Kanye, T.I. and Lil’ Wayne) all talking about they have SWAG. It’s a good song but after the trillionth time of being played at the club it’s like… really?

So, my plea is that all Hip Hop artist, people who listen to it and hipster posers who pretend they like it to look cool and sh*t, stop using/regurgitating this 7 letter word and all its spawn.  Let’s put SWAG in the coffin and bury it next to “DEF” “DOPE” and “THAT’S HOT!” 
Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust.

lewomack
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 10:23 pm: [report]

UGH! I am SO sick of That’s What She Said! I wouldn’t dislike it as much if dumb frat boys didn’t use it after every sentence!

raqueleza
wrote on September 2 2009 @ 10:37 pm: [report]

@VannaMarie: GOD, I hate “preggo!” Along with all variations, including “preggs” and “preggers.” Ugh.

Let’s throw “fierce” on that pile. “Fierce” needs to stop.

I Go To 11
wrote on September 3 2009 @ 09:35 am: [report]

I have always hated “baby bump”! It’s an unborn child, not a giant wart! Show some respect.

I also hate “teh”; what’s so great about misspelling such a simple word? Can we also drop “boi”, too? Don’t get me started on the whole FAIL, thing, either!

I’d also like to nominate stupid sentences featuring incorrect word order, e.g., “What the problem is?” Or incorrect linking verbs, like, “Is you serious?” Or—gah!—words that aren’t even in the English language, like, “Sometimes it be’s like that.” WTH is “be’s”? You can’t just say “is” like normal people? Also, what’s up with the word “tooken”, like “My swag just got tooken from my ride!” It’s not cool, it’s not ironic, it’s just dumb.

Also, pluralizing things that don’t need to be pluralized in the first place, such as “checkins account”, “I wonder what’s on sale at the Walmarts,” etc. (Even worse with an unnecessary apostrophe, e.g. “I wonder what’s on sale at the Walmart’s”.) Grr!

Things like these totally grate on this English major’s nerves!

ootie
wrote on September 3 2009 @ 09:40 am: [report]

A group of girls I know always says “real talk” to mean “for real” or “seriously”.  It started more like “Real talk, did you go behind my back on this?”, but now they use it constantly for everything, like “Real talk, can you pass me my purse?” Blehhhh it annoys the crap outta me.

LunaLena
wrote on September 3 2009 @ 10:26 am: [report]

@ CaleeKay - I actually heard someone use the word “pwn” in a conversation once.  We were talking about Halo 3, and it took me a while to figure out what he meant when he kept saying that he “pooned” others in multiplayer mode.

CheeeeEEEEse
wrote on September 3 2009 @ 10:39 am: [report]

@LunaLena: I’ve used it before. OMG Pwnies! (Ponies)

LunaLena
wrote on September 3 2009 @ 11:01 am: [report]

@ CheeeeEEEEse - I have a t-shirt that says that! (I <3 ThinkGeek)

veronicainla
wrote on September 3 2009 @ 02:37 pm: [report]

personally i like to try and use as many of the above words as often as possible in the same sentence. it’s me trying to be totes ironic i think.

smeather
wrote on September 3 2009 @ 05:02 pm: [report]

I would definitely add the conversational “PS” to my list.  How does that even translate to conversation - especially when used at the beginning of someone’s first thought?  Beyond me…

Shasta
wrote on September 3 2009 @ 08:04 pm: [report]

@Wendy.

Can you write an article on what words I should use?  I’m a bit of a grandma when it comes to these. When I finally discover a new cute word it’s old or my gay friend is the only ones who use it and it sounds ridiculous coming out of my hetero mouth.

I subscribe to Urban Dictionary’s word of the day, but I’m convinced it’s a bunch of stoners without jobs making up #&@$%.

Mascary
“When a person wears a scary amount of mascara”

That is something my gay friend would say, but no one else.

even though I get a word of the day from the urban dictionary.  However,
W

Coral
wrote on September 3 2009 @ 08:32 pm: [report]

I don’t know if anyone already said this but I hate the word “deets”, meaning details. Some people when gossiping might say, “give me the deets.” I hate that so much.

R
wrote on September 3 2009 @ 10:52 pm: [report]

@luna I’m a gamer chick so I hear that all the time. Its basically “owned” but spelled / pronounced wrong lol. But with certain games thats really the only way to describe what happened. I would never say that in public though! lol I think Ive also evolved from saying “pwn” now its just “hey I killed that guy” (in a game)

Lavanderism
wrote on September 7 2009 @ 03:20 pm: [report]

I also hate prego. Maybe because my mind creates weird connections and prego sounds like eggo.

“Leggo my preggo?”

Ew.
Also,
can we retire “_____ much?”
Like
“Rude much?”
Thank you.

prgirl
wrote on September 7 2009 @ 06:56 pm: [report]

dislike most of these, don’t know a few, which only means not enough people have used it enough to make it into my consciousness.  However, can we retire “vajayjay”?
would be much appreciated;-)

marcha
wrote on September 8 2009 @ 06:34 pm: [report]

What?? Huggles hasn’t been nominated yet??
Or lolz, omgz, where the z is randomly stuck to the end of some acronym for whatever reason?

Jewels86
wrote on September 9 2009 @ 10:02 am: [report]

I think we need to retire the phrase “I know, Right?” Ugh its like nails on a chalkboard for me!

I agree that “fierce” also needs to be eliminated.

@Ootie: I think I would go insane if anyone used the words “real talk” in a sentence. That would be terrible.

Bionic Boogie
wrote on September 13 2009 @ 01:43 am: [report]

For the love of god, can we please retired the term “merch”?!?  Is it really that hard to say “merchandise”??

Bionic Boogie
wrote on September 23 2009 @ 01:52 pm: [report]

Get rid of “in it to win it”

silvergurl
wrote on October 8 2009 @ 02:05 pm: [report]

also, please retire “lady lumps.”  kthanks.

remembercedricdiggory
wrote on October 8 2009 @ 02:23 pm: [report]

Urg. Why do most of the people here appear to have 5,438,966,659,467,584 pet peeves involving phrases and sayings?

That being said, it bothers me quite a bit when people have a problem with using internet slang. Like LOL. Pronounced “lowl” by most nowadays, it’s pretty much become a word-ish-type-thing, kind of like a cross between “laugh” and “haha”. I lol’d at that!

Most of the words on the actual list are somewhat annoying, but they don’t make my eyes pop out of my head. And most of the additions by commenters are fine with me. =/
Except for vajayjay. I simply dislike silly euphemisms for reproductive organs.

silvergurl
wrote on October 9 2009 @ 07:52 am: [report]

^um, i despise “LOL.” i do, however, have no problems with OMG or WTF.  go figure.

vivicat
wrote on October 21 2009 @ 10:43 pm: [report]

I hate “fierce” and pretty much every other “word” spawned by Top Model. “Smeysing” is not a word, will never be a word, you get where I’m going with this.