1,000 New Words Added to Oxford Dictionary – Awesomesauce!
The Oxford Dictionary has added 1,000 new modern words with their latest update.
Here are a few of the new gems:
Awesomesauce (adjective): Extremely good; excellent.
Beer o'clock (noun): An appropriate time of day for starting to drink beer.
Brain fart (noun): A temporary mental lapse or failure to reason correctly.
Bruh (noun): A male friend (often used as a form of address.)
Butt-dial (verb): Inadvertently call (someone) on a mobile phone in one's rear trouser pocket, as a result of pressure being accidentally applied to buttons on the phone.
Fat-shame (verb): Cause (someone judged to be fat or overweight) to feel humiliated by making mocking or critical comments about their size.
Fur baby (noun): A person's dog, cat, or other furry pet animal.
Manspreading (noun): The practice whereby a man, especially one traveling 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.