The Oxford English Dictionary has revealed the menu of new words added to its monumental collection. Now you can call someone bruh without fear of contradiction or error. Among the new list you will find numerous shocking and funny entries.
Check out the new words below and tell us which one is your favorite in the comment box.
Awesomesauce, adj. : (U.S. Informal) extremely good; excellent
Bants (also bantz), pl. n.: (Brit. Informal) playfully teasing or mocking remarks exchanged with another person or group; banter
Beer o’clock, n.: an appropriate time of day for starting to drink beer
Blockchain, n.: a digital ledger in which transactions made in bit coin or another cryptocurrency are recorded chronologically and publicly
Brain fart, n.: (Informal) a temporary mental lapse or failure to reason correctly
Brexit, n.: a term for the potential or hypothetical departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union
Bruh, n.: (U.S. Informal) a male friend (often used as a form of address)
Buttdial, v.: (U.S. Informal) inadvertently call (someone) on a mobile phone in one’s rear trouser pocket
Butthurt, adj.: (U.S. Informal) overly or unjustifiably offended or resentful
Cakeage, n.: (Informal) a charge made by a restaurant for serving a cake they have not supplied themselves
Cat café, n.: a café or similar establishment where people pay to interact with cats housed on the premises
Fast-casual, adj.: denoting or relating to a type of high quality self service restaurant offering dishes that are prepared to order and more expensive than those available in a typical fast food restaurant
Fatberg, n.: a very large mass of solid waste in a sewerage system, consisting especially of congealed fat and personal hygiene product that has been flushed down the toilets
Fat-shame, v.: cause (someone judged to be fat or overweight) to feel humiliated by making mocking or critical comments about their size
Grexit, n.: a term for the potential withdrawal of Greece from the Eurozone (the economic region formed by those countries in European Union that use the Euro as their national currency)
Hangry, adj.: (Informal) bad-tempered or irritable as a result of hunger
MacGyver, v.: (U.S. Informal) make or repair (an object) in an improvised or inventive way, making use of whatever items that are at hand
Manspreading, n.: the practice whereby a man especially one travelling on public transport adopts a sitting position with his legs wide apart, in such a way as to encroach on an adjacent seat or seats
Mic drop, n.: (Informal, chiefly U.S.) an instance of deliberately dropping or tossing aside ones microphone at the end of a performance or speech one considers to have been particularly impressive
Mx, n.: a title used before a persons 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
Rage-quit, v.: (Informal) angrily abandon an activity or pursuit that has become frustrating especially the playing of a video game
Skippable, adj. : (of a part or feature of something) able to be omitted or passed over so as to get to the next part or feature
Wine o’clock, n.: an appropriate time of day for starting to drink wine
Credit: Oxford Words Blog
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