While watching a show on how to make a Christmas cake (a fleeting moment where I thought I might make one this year, until I remembered that Christmas cakes are mingin) I noticed that the word moist was bandied about around 100 times. So, around 100 times while watching said show, my face looked like this: 
I watched almost the entire show until I realised that it was the word moist that had my face in a permanent state of contortion. It's just an icky word! Studies have shown that people (like me) have no problem with the word rejoiced, which sounds just like moist.
So, it must be the image conjured up in my mind when I hear the word moist that makes my face want to peel itself off my head.
There are many other words that people don't like, and here's a list from the listeners of the Early Breakfast:
- curd
- pus
- vomit
- bunion
- phlegm
- cluster
- slurp
- fester
- smear
- squirt
- ointment
- cockroach
- flaccid
- ooze
- snot
- mutton
- lard
- faeces
- juicy
- discharge
- dripping
- mucous
- rank
- vacectomy
- colonoscopy
- slash
- robust
- groin
- gusset!
- cyst
- secrete
- panties
