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Heart has got hold of the latest list of words to officially make it into the English Language.
The Oxford English Dictionary has released the list of new words, which include "Tankini" and "Mankini". Their website now has more than 1,000 new words with over 350,000 entries and definitions.
Check out some of the words on the list below:
Babycino - a drink of hot milk that has been frothed with pressurized steam, intended for children
Backlink - an incoming hyperlink from one web page to another website
Bloggable - suitable or sufficiently interesting as a topic for a blog
Buttload - a large number or amount
Cyberbullying - the use of electronic communication to bully a person, typically by sending messages of an intimidating or threatening nature
Fnarr fnarr - used to represent sniggering, typically at a sexual innuendo
Geddit - do you understand? (used to draw attention to a pun or play with words)
Jazz hands - a gesture originating in musical theatre, in which the hands are waved rapdily to and fro with palms facing forward and the fingers splayed, used typically to express or indicate excitement or triumph
Mankini - a brief one-piece bathing garment for men, with a T-back
Nom nom - used to express pleasure at eating, or at the prospect of eating, delicious food / or (noun) delicious food
Prolly - probably (informal)
Tanorexia - an obsessive desire to acquire and maintain a suntan, by natural or artificial methods
TBH - to be honest (abbreviation)
TMI - too much information (used to indicate that someone has revealed personal information of an embarressing nature)
Trolleyed - extremely drunk
Womble - wander in a casual or relaxed manner