Some of these are obviously Brit-speak, some have been around for a while in the U.S., and some I didn't know. "Manspreader" pretty appropriate...
New words added to Oxford dictionary online
Other
words include manspreading, when men position their legs wide apart to encroach
on adjacent seats when travelling on public transport, rando, a name for an odd
unknown person, and fat-shame, which means to mock somebody about their
size.
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terms Brexit and Grexit - words used for the United Kingdom’s hypothetical exit
from the EU and Greece’s potential exit from the Eurozone - were also included
in the dictionary.
Other
new words included:
-
awesomesauce: extremely good; excellent
-
bants (also bantz): playfully teasing or mocking remarks exchanged with another
person or group; banter
-
beer o'clock: an appropriate time of day for starting to drink
beer
-
brain fart: a temporary mental lapse or failure to reason
correctly
-
cakeage: a charge made by a restaurant for serving a cake they have not supplied
themselves
cat
cafe: a cafe or similar establishment where people pay to interact with cats
housed on the premises
-
cupcakery: a bakery that specialises in cupcakes
-
deradicalisation: the action or process of causing a person with extreme views
to adopt more moderate positions on political or social issues
-
fatberg: a very large mass of solid waste in a sewerage system, consisting
especially of congealed fat and personal hygiene products that have been flushed
down toilets
- fur
baby: a person's dog, cat, or other furry pet animal
-
mkay: non-standard spelling of OK, representing an informal pronunciation
(typically used at the end of a statement to invite agreement, approval, or
confirmation)
- Mx:
a title used before a person's surname or full name by those who wish to avoid
specifying their gender or by those who prefer not to identify themselves as
male or female
-
pocket dial: inadvertently call (someone) on a mobile phone in one's pocket, as
a result of pressure being accidentally applied to a button or buttons on the
phone
-
rage-quit: angrily abandon an activity or pursuit that has become frustrating,
especially the playing of a video game
-
Redditor: a registered user of the website Reddit
-
social justice warrior: a person who expresses or promotes socially progressive
views
-
snackable: designed to be read, viewed, or otherwise engaged with briefly and
easily
-
spear phishing: the fraudulent practice of sending emails ostensibly from a
known or trusted sender in order to induce targeted individuals to reveal
confidential information
-
swatting: the action or practice of making a hoax call to the emergency services
in an attempt to bring about the dispatch of a large number of armed police
officers to a particular address
-
weak sauce: something that is of a poor or disappointing standard or
quality
-
wine o'clock: an appropriate time of day for starting to drink
wine
New
words enter the online dictionary if editors are certain of their widespread use
in English. But they only make it into the Oxford English Dictionary if
continued historical use is shown.
“There’s always been new slang words. I just think we are more
aware of them because of the ways in which we consume and live our lives now,”
said Fiona McPherson, a senior editor of Oxford Dictionaries.
“From
my point of view, as a lexicographer, it’s not really about dumbing down, it’s
more creative ways that people are using language,” she said.
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