The top ten most unexpected words added to the online Oxford dictionary

The Telegraph ^ | 8/27/15 | Lucy Clarke-Billings

[markomalley]

The online Oxford dictionary has added 1,000 new words to its database.

The latest additions have been announced, highlighting the things British people have been talking about in the summer of 2015, such as inconsiderate commuters, solidified waste and unacceptable service charges.

Here are ten of the most unexpected words on the list:

1. manspreading (noun): 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 seat
   
   
2. awesomesauce (adjective): extremely good; excellent
   
   
3. bants (noun): playfully teasing or mocking remarks exchanged with another person or group; banter
   
   
4. fat-shame (verb): cause (someone judged to be fat or overweight) to feel humiliated by making mocking or critical comments about their size
   
   
5. Brexit (noun): a term for the potential or hypothetical departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union
   
   
6. bruh (noun): a male friend (often used as a form of address)
   
   
7. cakeage (noun): a charge made by a restaurant for serving a cake they have not supplied themselves
   
   
8. fatberg (noun): a very large mass of solid waste in a sewerage system, consisting especially of congealed fat and personal hygiene products that have been flushed down toilets
   
   
9. Grexit (noun): a term for the potential withdrawal of Greece from the eurozone (the economic region formed by those countries in the European Union that use the euro as their national currency)
   
   
10. hangry (adjective): bad-tempered or irritable as a result of hunger

[markomalley]

I know I'm getting old when I've never heard the vast majority of the above terms...

[Crazieman]

I have a friend that says awesomesauce, and I have heard of fatbergs in numerous articles on jerks that flush things down the sewer that don’t belong.

[1rudeboy]

You haven’t heard them because they are new.

[caver]

I just wasted two minutes of my life.

[mkmensinger]

I’m afraid that image of fatberg will be with me the rest of the day. I need some brain shampoo.

[Crazieman]

[rarestia]

Most of these “new words” are conjunctions of existing, proper English words (e.g. hangry), and some are outright ridiculous (e.g. awesomesauce).

I’m 35, but I feel like the youth of today are overwhelming the traditions under which most of my contemporaries were raised.

[ilgipper]

I see the radicalization of society is taking official hold with manspreading and fat shaming. Accusations from the wacko left now official.

[TexasFreeper2009]

So basically ebonics is now starting to be included in the dictionary ?

lol

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Meh! ;^)

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Combined PING! and DANG!

[glennaro]

The OED is practicing discrimination ... How come “womanspreading” isn’t on their list of new words? They do this, too! (Where’s Andrew Dice Clay when you need him?! — Hah!)

[MeshugeMikey]

hangry (adjective): bad-tempered or irritable as a result of hunger...

hmmm perhaps these two werent served enough in fligh snackses??

[TBP]

I had heard of about three of these, but the rest sound like fake words to me.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I haven't heard of the majority of these but I just do not get this one at all:

cakeage (noun): a charge made by a restaurant for serving a cake they have not supplied themselves

Is that 'charge' as in allegation? Or a request for remittance? And who is 'they'? The restaurant or the customer?

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Actually, they’re both the same pugilist. I didn’t see a picture of the other person in that Daily Mail article.

[MeshugeMikey]

now that you mention it the “similarity” is unmistakable...

[basil]

I’m with you—sounds like a bunch of words made up by teenagers.

[Slings and Arrows]

They also added “masshole.”

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