New dictionary words
Vuvuzela, Cheeseball and Buzzkill are among two thousand new words that have been recognised by the latest Oxford Dictionary of English.
Some of the latest entries include:
Chill pill
A notional pill taken to make someone calm down
Chillax
Calm down and relax
Turducken
A roast dish consisting of a chicken inside a duck inside a turkey
Bargainous
Costing less than is usual or than might be expected; cheap or relatively cheap
Staycation -
Holiday spent in one's home country
Fussbudget
A fussy person
Vuvuzela
A long horn blown by fans at soccer matches
National treasure
Someone/thing regarded as emblematic of a nation's cultural heritage
Buzzkill -
A person or thing that has a depressing or dispiriting effect
Social media
Websites and applications used for social networking
Microblogging
The posting of very short entries on a blog
Automagically
Automatically and in a way that seems ingenious, inexplicable, or magical
Exit strategy
A pre-planned means of extricating oneself from a situation
Overthink
Think about (something) too much or for too long
Catastrophizing
Viewing or presenting a situation as considerably worse than it actually is
Soft skills
Personal attributes that enable someone to interact effectively and harmoniously with other people
Matchy-matchy
Excessively colour-coordinated
LBD
Little black dress
Frenemy
A person with whom one is friendly despite a fundamental dislike or rivalry
Cheeseball
Lacking taste, style, or originality
Cool hunter
A person whose job it is to make observations or predictions about new styles and trends
Tweetup
A meeting organized by means of posts on twitter
Bromance
A close but non-sexual relationship between two men
Wardrobe malfunction
An instance of a person accidentally exposing an intimate part of their body as a result of an article of clothing slipping out of position
Defriend
Another term for unfriend (remove someone from a list of friends or contacts on a social networking site)
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