Submissions for the Free the Word 2017 call continue to be an excellent source of regional words and meanings for the OED. The March version includes a number of new Scots. Tech-affvy (n.): knowledgeable or proficient in dealing with modern technology. Paleo diet (n.): a diet based on the type of foods believed to have been eaten by early humans. Digital fingerprint: information about a specific person that exists on the Internet as a result of their online activities. Technological wreck (N.): (informal) A collapse in stock prices in high-tech industries. Adorbs (adj.): awakening great joy; Cute or adorable. Chile con Queso (n.): (in Tex-Mex cuisine) a thick sauce of melted cheese seasoned with chili peppers, usually served hot as a dip for tortilla chips. simple (exclam.): (informal Brit.) used to convey that something is very simple. subtweet(n.): (on Twitter) a post that refers to a specific user without mentioning them directly, usually as a form of stealthy ridicule or criticism. Find out which words work together and create more natural English with the Oxford Collocations Dictionary app. YOLO (abbreviation): They only live once (express the opinion that one should make the most of the present moment). Douchebaggery (n.): disgusting or despicable behavior.
Hot mic (n.): A microphone turned on, especially one that sends a spoken remark that should be private. WTAF (abbreviation): (vulgar slang) what the actual f-ck. ant pants (n.): (Austral. informal) an exceptionally good person or thing. Efforts to legalize or decriminalize cannabis use in parts of North America in recent years have made it particularly desirable to review our existing files for cannabis and its derivatives. Updated and expanded entries for cannabis and related words will be posted in this update, and their careful care by OED listeners has produced an abundant harvest of neologisms. The commercialization (legal or otherwise) of cannabis is covered by new entries for the cannabis industry and the portmanteau word, while the increase in medical marijuana use by the cannabis dispensary is represented. Other drug-specific outlets are dealt with in cannabis shops and in lists of licensed cannabis cafes or cafes in the Netherlands and later elsewhere (first mentioned in UK sources in the mid-1980s) where – perhaps – cannabis edibles made with cannabis butter could be purchased and consumed. Obamacare (n.): (in the US) an informal term for a federal law designed to improve access to health insurance for US citizens. The official name of the law is the Affordable Care Act or (entirely) the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Yes, each of them is a new entry in Oxford`s online database that collects modern word usages.
And that`s just a small selection of the many adorbs supplements (adj., arousing great joy). For all those who are willing to put their quills on parchment and declare the end of the English language, now that such frivolous terms are respected by Oxford, remember that this is not the Oxford English dictionary. This arm of the family is more like the serious and intellectual grandfather, who constantly refuses his approval to the younger generations. In other words, OED editors require words to have a much more historical and meaningful impact before being added to that reference. Man Crush (N.): (unofficially) an intense and typically non-sexual sympathy or admiration that one man feels for another; A man who is the object of intense sympathy or admiration from another. Read more about the words that will flow from these calls here. Duck face(s): (informal) An exaggerated pout expression in which the lips are pushed outward, usually by a person posing for a photo. CRAY (adj.): Crazy, but without that extra syllable that takes a lot of time.
Secret Santa Claus (n.): An arrangement in which a group of friends or colleagues anonymously exchange Christmas gifts, with each member of the group assigned a different member, for whom a small gift is provided, which usually costs no more than a fixed amount. That`s right: if you`re still able to concentrate after all this, or if you wisely abstained, thank you for reading; I hope we`ll see you again for our next update, or, as they say in Yorkshire, Sithee! Misery index (n.): An informal measure of the state of an economy obtained by adding its inflation rate and its unemployment rate. Oxford Dictionaries, the branch of the Oxford family that focuses on up-to-date English, announced on Wednesday that they had added the last words to their ranks. Expressed as haiku, the reflections of humanity in 2014 could easily look like this: Our new additions this quarter include a surprising survival of Old English in the verb sprit, meaning “to germinate or germinate,” first recorded in a copy of the tenth-century medical text known as Bald`s Leechbook. which can still be used on Twitter by gardeners (especially in the North West of England). when it comes to allowing seed potatoes to germinate before they are planted (a practice commonly known as “chitting”). At the other end of the timeline, our latest addition is a new sense of transition, such as the name of a movement advocating a shift from dependence on fossil fuels to sustainable, self-sufficient living in communities sometimes referred to as transition cities. Other recent additions include the astronomical exomoon (a moon orbiting a planet outside our solar system, often mentioned in reference to the search for extraterrestrial life, first recorded in 2008) and MacGyvered (2006), an adjective meaning “adapted or improvised in an ingenious or timely manner.” It is a later derivative of the verb MacGyver, which pays tribute to the abilities of the ingenious secret agent and titular hero of an American television series first broadcast between 1985 and 1992 (when the verb was first recorded) and has recently been rebooted. SMH (abbreviation): shaking (or shaking) the head (used to express my disapproval, annoyance, etc.).
