- Buzzkill, Cheeseball and Overthink: all are one word! As I've maintained for years!! Take that, former copyeditors!
- Muffin Top: "A protuberance of flesh above the waistband of a tight pair of trousers (cf. spare tyre n., love handle n.), which may sometimes be attributed to an excessive appreciation for muffin tops in the literal sense.")
- Rub-a-dub Yesssss!
- Wassup Weren't those Budweiser commercials airing, like, 10 years ago?
- Smack-talking
- Suicide door
- LOL
- OMG: OMFG, however, did not make the cut.
- <3: As in ♥
OED also released a list of rejected words that, for the time being, will remain unofficial slang. There's a good list of them on AOL News, but most of them are head-scratchers. (Did someone really think nudenda—"An unhidden agenda," apparently—would make the cut?) Still, my favorite reject has to be "nonversation," which is described as being "a worthless conversation, wherein nothing is explained or otherwise elaborated upon."
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