Manspreading is Now a Real English Word According to This Major Dictionary
Get ready for your inner English major to feel a tinge of anger about the new additions to OxfordDictionary.com. Under the argument that English is an ever evolving language, they're letting through some rather interesting words into their dictionary. Check them out
An informal way of saying something is Excellent.Â
"Bad-tempered or irritable as a result of hunger."
A contraction for the often-derogatory term "social justice warrior"Â
Yes, all the way from the '80s comes the VERB "MacGyver" as in "I jumped off a plane without a parachute and I MacGyvered my way out of it."
Defined as: 'A title used before a person’s surname or full name by those who wish to avoid specifying their gender or by those who prefer not to identify themselves as male or female'
Yes, Redditor has been upgraded to a noun, same as YouTuber
"Angrily abandon an activity or pursuit that has become frustrating, especially the playing of a video game." You can also use the noun Rage-quitter
Defined as : ‘the practice whereby a man, especially one travelling on public transport, adopts a sitting position with his legs wide apart, in such a way as to encroach on an adjacent seat or seats’.Â
Oxford Dictionaries, where were you in the late 90s when we *really* needed this term to be official?
Defined literally as "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."Â
It can also be a figurative exclamation "used to emphasize that a discussion is at an end after a definitive or particularly impressive point has been made."
Mic drop.