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The Oxford English Dictionary is one of the most famous dictionaries in the world. It’s hard for a word to get in there.
But they also have a branch called the Oxford Dictionaries that adds newer, modern words that are just becoming a thing . . . and that MIGHT get into the main Oxford English Dictionary one day.
And yesterday, the Oxford Dictionaries just announced a bunch of ridiculous modern words they’re adding. Here are our 12 favorites . . .
1. awesomesauce. “extremely good, excellent.”
2. beer o’clock. “an appropriate time of day for starting to drink beer.”
3. brain fart. “a temporary mental lapse or failure to reason correctly.”
4. butt dial. “to inadvertently call someone on a mobile phone in one’s rear trouser pocket.”
5. butthurt. “Overly or unjustifiably offended or resentful.”
6. fatberg. “A very large mass of solid waste in a sewerage system, consisting especially of congealed fat.”
7. fat-shame. “To cause someone judged to be fat or overweight to feel humiliated by making mocking or critical comments about their size.”
8. hangry. “Bad-tempered or irritable as a result of hunger.”
9. MacGyver. “Make or repair an object in an improvised or inventive way, making use of whatever items are at hand.”
10. manic pixie dream girl. “Especially in film, a type of female character depicted as vivacious and appealing quirky, whose main purpose is to inspire a greater appreciation for life in a male protagonist.”
11. mic drop. “An instance of deliberately dropping or tossing aside one’s microphone at the end of a performance or speech one considers to have been particularly impressive.”
12. weak sauce. “Something that is of a poor or disappointing standard or quality.”
