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! That’s a Seinfeld phrase.

Not my guests! Hmmm, let me see, but I have had…

How about Fire-Starters?
Electricity wasters

And for my last guest, he’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 note…

Gift-givers

Always nice even when it’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 note…

ToiletCloggers
TowelStainers
I’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 week…

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

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Penny-pinchers
Asks you repeatedly for discounts :frowning:

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

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LOL…