“Moobs” is shorthand for “man boobs”.
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The people in charge of ruining the language have once again done that thing where they try to get kids to make their story go viral, by adding a bunch of silly-sounding non-words to the Oxford English Dictionary.
Other examples include Yogalates – pilates exercises combined with yoga techniques, cheeseball – someone or something lacking taste, style or originality, or the breaded and deep fried cheese appetiser.
Two new culinary terms are “Bocconcini”, meaning any small items of food or balls of mozzarella, and “spanakopita”, which is a Greek spinach and cheese-stuffed filo pasty pie.
Further to a number of food-related terms – including the Malaysian or Indonesian dish, rendang – social media expressions have also made an appearance.
‘Property a better bet than pensions’, says Bank of England chief economist Cartoon: All Blacks – What fouls? .
Besides “splendiferous”, Dahl-inspired vocabulary in the new edition includes an updated entry for the word “gremlins”, the meddlesome imps that sabotaged airplanes in Dahl’s first children’s book in 1943, and “human bean” – a humorous adjustment or mispronunciation of human being.
Gender-fluid describes someone who does not identify with a fixed male or female gender, while YOLO is a popular acronym for the phrase “you only live once”.
Fuhgeddaboudit: “In representations of regional speech (associated especially with NY and New Jersey): “forget about it”, used to indicate that a suggested scenario is unlikely or undesirable”.
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The OED describes itself as “an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over 829,000 words, senses, and compounds – past and present – from across the English-speaking world”.
