“The Oxford English Dictionary has added a slew of new words, and let’s just say these awesomesauce entries will have you fangirling.”
- fast-casual, adj.: denoting or relating to a type of high-quality self-service restaurant offering dishes that are prepared to order and more expensive than those available in a typical fast-food restaurant
- cakeage, n.: (informal) a charge made by a restaurant for serving a cake they have not supplied themselves
- beer o’clock, n.: an appropriate time of day for starting to drink beer
- hangry, adj.: (informal) bad-tempered or irritable as a result of hunger
- wine o’clock, n.: an appropriate time of day for starting to drink wine
- snackable, adj.: (of online content) designed to be read, viewed, or otherwise engaged with briefly and easily
- barbacoa, n.: (in Mexican cooking) beef, lamb, or other meat that has slowly been cooked with seasonings, typically shredded as a filling in tacos, burritos, etc.
- cupcakery, n.: a bakery that specializes in cupcakes
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“I love a mouthful”
The Two-Way challenged their colleagues to see who could use the most new additions in a single sentence. Here’s Lauren Hodges, THE WINNER!!!
“Hey bruh, NBD and I don’t want to bants or act all butthurt, but I will straight-up rage-quit our lease over your fur-baby, who is rly not awesomesauce, despite your repeated attempts to mansplain its resting bitch face as “pensive,” or its constant theft of my frozen barbacoa burritos because it was hangry and craving something melty even though you get all cheffy for it three times a day, or its butt-dialing my ex because you didn’t see my phone sitting there while you were getting it to kayfabe all over the table for your rando friends, or my swole eyes being from my constant celebrations of beer o’clock and wine o’clock because we both know that dog manspreads all over my pillows when I’m not home, so stop with your weak sauce deradicalization and attempts to make this a skippable topic and by the way, you might want to get it to stop chewing my shoes before it gets hit on the head with this mic drop, mkay?”
For the complete list of new words – tech related, silly, political/social developments AND other mouthful-entries click HERE
Don’t think that because I picked out only the food related new words to share with you I am a rando (randa?), mkay?
Those are some great words. You know, of course, as writers, we have privileges of neologism. I often invent my own words, though usually I nounize verbs or verbize nouns. I read somewhere that there are fifty new words added to the language daily. I wonder how many become extinct.
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Jacqui,
I think you should write an manual – “How to Nounize Verbs and How to Verbize Nouns”. You’ll be famous, wealthy and can buy all the barbacoa for Shari she can eat.
(Probably the number of extinct words are in direct proportion to the the extinction of people who coined them.)
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Oh yes, Jacqui, please do this – I’m hangry!!
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I can vouch for the taste of barbacoa – first time I tried it, I was hooked – dangerously so. OMG, it is SO good!
Hangry ought to be in every child raising manual (of course, the idea of child raising manuals ought to raise much discussion)
Fun post, this one.
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Shari, B-P,
Write a chilanual – “How to Handle Hangry Children”. You’ll be famous, wealthy and can eat all the barbacoa you want
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Here it is, published on your blog: How to Handle Hangry Children, by Shari Bonin-Pratt. Chapter 1: Feed hungry children barbacoa before they become hangry right before your eyes and you realize your wine-o’clock just got moved to the exact time of day your kid is throwing the temper tantrum. Like, right now.
Chapter 2: Send me a penny (more than this is worth) before re-reading chapter 1.
Judy, you’re responsible for taxes on this one.
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Shari B-P,
As your new editor who is responsible for taxes:
How to Handle Hangry Children, by Shari Bonin-Pratt.
Chapter 1: Feed hAngry children barbacoa before they become hangry right before your eyes and you realize your wine-o’clock just got moved to the exact time of day your kid is throwing the temper tantrum. Like, right now.
Chapter 2: Send me $100 (whata bargain – this is worth more) before re-reading chapter 1 but after reading chapter 3..
Capter 3: Eat barbacoa before you feed children to have the energy to fedd children barbacoa before the become hangry. (see chapter 1)
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I am thankful for “hangry,” a much-needed word in my vocab. But what’s new about “beer o’clock?” That’s been in my dictionary for years, bruh.
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Chuck!
Your awesomesauce comment made my evening. I’m still grinning!
Do you get “hangry” before or after “beer o’clock”?
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Beer o’clock definitely takes the edge off my hangry. After that I just manspread on the couch and watch an Angel’s game, till my wifey gets all cheffy with the barbacoa and the cakeage.
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Chuck,
You should seriously think about becoming a SERIOUS writer – Seriously, you have such an eloquent way with words.
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