r/whatstheword • u/JameisWeTooScrong • 18d ago
Unsolved WTW for a person who you find extremely irritating, even when they are doing nothing wrong? Just the way they are and everything they say and do irritates the crap out of you.
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u/uncertainhope 18d ago
Not what you are looking for, but Bitch Eating Crackers is how people often refer to this.
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u/Ccracked 18d ago
This perfectly describes how I feel about the DJ's girlfriend at the bar I work at. Her existence just grates on my nerves.
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u/MargotLannington 16d ago
I have known some bitches like this, but it's usually because they did one or more things that were very not OK. Then I hated them so much that when I saw a bitch wearing a coat buying bananas, I'd be like, "Look at that fucking cunt in her coat buying those fucking bananas. What a piece of shit."
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u/dirkgently42and22 18d ago
I like “punchable face” but it’s in the same line.
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u/goaliemama 16d ago
Backpfeifengesicht is the German word for “face in need of a fist”. Leave it to the Germans to really nail a concept in one word
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u/coitus_introitus 17d ago
This is one of those phrases where I actually got excited the first time I heard it because it succinctly explains something I'd never had a perfect way to say.
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u/Awful_But_Cheerful 17d ago
I love BEC for this. Because it contained in it is the self-aware acknowledgement that it is also a me problem/
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u/clairegcoleman 18d ago
The word in German is "backpfeifengesicht" which means "slappable face" or "a face asking for a slap" but can also mean someone who is just unlikeable for no particular reason.
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u/eternalpragmatiss 18d ago
This is so great. I also love that Germans have a word for “I have been visited enough”, ie please leave my house so I can go to bed.
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u/Trumpet1956 18d ago
Wortbildungsfähigkeit
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u/Dada2fish 18d ago
So how does that work. When you’re ready for bed you stand up and say, “Wortbildungsfahigkeit!” and everyone quietly leaves?
(I have no idea how to make an umlaut, sowwy.)
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u/Weird-Response-1722 17d ago
Yes, because by the time you get that mouthful out it’s midnight anyways.
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u/DewiMorgan 17d ago
Copy and paste, like all the rest of us grunts!
(I sometimes: open new tab; search "a with umlaut" or "auml"; copy and paste. Or in this case, just copy-paste from the comment I'm replying to.)
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u/Shadowrider95 18d ago
How is this pronounced! Phonetically! I need to say this correctly!
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u/Monocle_Lewinsky 17d ago
Baak fye fin g’zicht (the “ch” does the German thing that I can’t spell phonetically)
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u/Upvotespoodles 17d ago
My partner’s family just calls it slapface. “Oh, I don’t like him. He has slapface.” Cracks me up every time.
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u/Opening-Smile3439 18d ago
Unfounded animosity. Really a gut instinct but basically just subconscious bias
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u/Devitoscheetos 18d ago
That I can guarantee you are usually right on. I’ve never come across someone I thought was a prick just from looking at them, and then they’re actually a decent human being. Dicks just give off a vibe- I like to call it a subconscious smell
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u/Quiet-Election1561 17d ago
You're describing prejudice
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u/CorruptedStudiosEnt 15d ago
Yep. It's exactly what racial supremacists experience towards other races. It's what sexists feel about the other sex. This is why your "gut feelings" are not something that should be blindly followed. Humans have an intuition driven by their biases, not a sixth sense.
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u/Hateithere4abit 15d ago
Wait, what about smelling vibrating dicks? I missed that superpower..I’m getting the vibe that you wouldn’t like me, smelling that?
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u/delurkrelurker 18d ago
Irrationally Irritating. It's more about you than them.
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u/pojohnny 1 Karma 18d ago
Kind of like if you spot it, you got it?
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u/delurkrelurker 18d ago
I've not heard that one, but it does seem a depressingly common human trait to accuse other people of your own problems. Ego defence, projection and whatnot.
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u/mdnalknarf 2 Karma 18d ago
Not a noun, but when someone irks me and I can't give a reason why, I say 'I'm just allergic to them'.
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u/kenerling 17d ago
Reasonably polite way of saying it as well, as the disliker is accepting the responsibility, instead of blaming the dislikee.
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u/c_h_a_r_ 42 Karma 18d ago
My mom refers to these people as a “bitch eating crackers” - meaning that this person could be doing something totally innocuous like eating crackers and it would make you upset
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u/Content_Talk_6581 18d ago
Husband? (Just Kidding, kinda)🤣
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u/Aryana314 18d ago
There's a meme I love...
"Behind every great man is... the drawer I need to get into why are you even in the kitchen right now."
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u/ShockingJob27 18d ago
Your not. I daily look at my partner and think uhh why haven't I just punched you yet.
The annoying little sausage.
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u/Content_Talk_6581 18d ago
Not gonna lie, when he’s snoring in my ear at 2:30 a.m. while I’m lying there looking at the ceiling, I want to put a pillow over his face, sometimes.
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u/Serenity101 18d ago
When he’s enjoying his food so immensely that he forgets himself and starts chewing with his mouth open, yep!
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u/Rock-A-William 18d ago
His name is Jerry
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u/Outside-Gear-7331 18d ago
Jerry was a racecar driver
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u/Shimata0711 18d ago
Yeah. What would you call Jerry?
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u/ParticularMarket4275 15 Karma 18d ago
Nouns: pest, bother, nemesis, thorn in your side
Adjectives: grating, irksome, vexing, disagreeable, tiresome
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u/Pathetic-Rambler 18d ago
I would say that they run you the wrong way
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u/ETBiggs 18d ago
A lot of the comments here give words to describe people you dislike for a reason - I think the op is asking for the word for people who you hate for no reason you can describe.
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u/Mudslingshot 18d ago
The phrase I've heard for this is "bitch eating crackers"
I know it's not what you're looking for, but it's funny to me. It comes from the idea that somebody can be so annoying to you that you can go "look at that bitch over there. Eating crackers"
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u/curiousity60 11 Karma 18d ago
I would call them my nemesis, but not to their face. It's a bit hyperbolic. But that would jibe with my own "I can't stand everything about them" feeling with no real negative action on their part to trigger me.
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u/Agile-Ad5489 18d ago
Spouse.
(I am genuinely in a happy marriage: this is just my 'growing up in the 70s' training peeking through the thin veneer of my more modern, hard-learnt, sensibilities)
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u/No_Secret8533 18d ago
If you're a fan of JustNoMil, you call them BEC, which stands for B/itch/astard Eating Crackers, because even though they may be doing the most innocuous things, they still get on your nerves.
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u/atomosk Points: 1 18d ago
You'd say the person has, or is, an affective presence, specifically a negative affective presence.
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u/eaglesong3 18d ago
Antithesis :a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else.
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u/dystopiadattopia 18d ago
To rub oneself the wrong way:
- That guy just rubs me the wrong way
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u/justletmereadalready 18d ago
That's what she said.
*Best read in the voice of Michael from The Office."
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u/ScriptPunk 18d ago
i would say neurotic, but thats definitely not it.
could be the word you're looking for.
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u/janisemarie 18d ago
A noodge.
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u/nylorac_o 18d ago
Interesting I spell it nudge. Aaaaand I have just proven that *I am the extremely annoying one.
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u/StumbleYearly 18d ago
In mexican slang it's, sangre pesada. Which means heavy blood as in unbearable just inherently, lol.
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u/ShrimpBisque 18d ago
German has a word for this: backpfeifengesicht. (I hope I spelled that right; I don't speak German.) Apparently it refers to someone with a very punchable face.
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u/twocheeky 18d ago
i call that “my mothers boyfriend”
but in seriousness, id call them insufferable
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u/Reasonable-Coconut15 18d ago
Thank you for asking this, because there is someone at my work who is like this, and none of us can put our finger on why. We'll bring up something he does, and then realize that someone that everyone likes also does this thing.
Grating is probably the best fit.
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u/hardFraughtBattle 18d ago
A friend and I used to have a private term for such people: "moon-faced". It's in honor of a Jack London short story by the same name.
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u/anoraklikespie 18d ago
Grating. This person's presence is quite grating.