One-worders to describe 'em as they come

Our guests come with all sorts of behavior we can imagine, and cannot imagine!

Can you describe them in a single word? Feel free to coin it, but remember one word only - hyphenated if necessary.

Based on recent discussions, here are a few to get you started:

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Close Talkers! Thatā€™s a Seinfeld phrase.

Not my guests! Hmmm, let me see, but I have hadā€¦

How about Fire-Starters?
Electricity wasters

And for my last guest, heā€™s too ghoulish and his sins too egregious to think of a funny phrase at the moment.
May he never darken the door of any of my friends here!

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I had Hookers

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Changeover day, walk in the the bedroom & it hits me like a brick wall.
FARTSALOT

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hairshedders
this has been the bane of my existence lately

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Red-wine-vomiter-on-beige-carpets.
Mr-Underwear

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Order-inners. Multiple restaurant delivery drivers wandering down my driveway, and upon departure, trash and surfaces absolutely overflowing with take out containers.

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On a positive noteā€¦

Gift-givers

Always nice even when itā€™s some strange tea or inedible cake. Or a very weird fridge-magnet.

edit just to add that latest lovely cake gift tastes like slightly sweetened cardboard :frowning: But I still appreciate it. Just a bit less so, having actually tasted it.

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On a less positive noteā€¦

ToiletCloggers
TowelStainers
Iā€™msuchanamazingpersonbutyouwillneedtoemployallyouractingskillswhenlisteningtomytotallyboringstories

Sorry, last one needs a bit of work. !

edit Perhaps Boredom-Inducers

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Post-midnight-showerers - aaaaarghhh!!

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Kitchen-reorganisers :rage:

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Yeah, and furniture-movers!

Or maybe call them fengshui-prats?

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Never thought I would see anyone on this forum admit to having had one hooker let alone more than one :slight_smile:

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York University are reviving 30 old words, that they think will be useful in the day and age, only a couple of them can work for us:
Momist - A person who habitually finds fault; a harsh critic
Awhape - To amaze, stupefy with fear, confound utterly
Ear-rent - The figurative cost to a person of listening to trivial or incessant talk
Sillytonian - A silly or gullible person, one considered as belonging to a notional sect of such people
Slug-a-bed - One who lies long in bed through laziness
Coney-catch - To swindle, cheat, trick, dupe, deceive

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Sage burner (in the microwave)

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Potential in-stayers: I have a Canadian mum and her daughter coming for a week on Sunday, before daughter takes up a place at Cambridge for a post grad year. They are coming by train and we really are in the sticks!. I explicitly explained when they booked, weeks ago, that they would need a car or be prepared to use cabs and sparse local buses to get around. Their last email stated that they were looking forward to staying in the cottage for a weekā€¦

Non-readers (i.e. of House Manual, tourist brochures, listing ā€¦etc etc)

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Penny-pinchers
Asks you repeatedly for discounts :frowning:

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Yep, all true, thereā€™s another dozen or so words that the university found, but not relevant to Airb.
(Even though genuine old English, Iā€™ve been asked to remove the word you mentioned :grin:)

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LOLā€¦