Lost for words ? fuhgeddaboudit cunning linguists only

[david44]

Moobs, gender-fluid and yolo are among more than 1,000 words and terms recently added to the Oxford English Dictionary.

Moobs, a term for unusually prominent breasts on a man; gender-fluid, describing a person who does not identify with a single fixed gender; and yolo, the acronym for the phrase “you only live once”, made the cut in the OED’s quarterly update.

Food-related terms including chefdom and cheeseball will appear in the new edition alongside yogalates, the combination of yoga and pilates, and Westminster bubble, an insular community of politicians.

To celebrate the centenary of Roald Dahl’s birth, the OED is also publishing new and revised entries for words the author used in his writing, including Oompa Loompa, scrumdiddlyumptious and human bean.

Michael Proffitt, chief editor of the OED, said: “The inclusion in OED of a number of words coined by or associated with Roald Dahl reflects both his influence as an author and his vivid and distinctive style. For many children Roald Dahl’s work is not only one of their first experiences of reading, but also their earliest exposure to the creative power of language.”

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Moobs – a contraction of the expression man boobs – first appeared in the young adult novel The Sisterhood Of The Travelling Pants in 2001. Gender-fluid was first recorded in 1987.

Other interesting additions include fuhgeddaboudit, a US colloquialism reflecting an attempted New York or New Jersey pronunciation of the phrase “forget about it”.

The OED describes itself as “an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over 829,000 words, senses, and compounds – past and present – from across the English-speaking world”.

There have to be several independent examples of a word being used, as well as evidence it has been used for a reasonable amount of time, before it can be included.

[Norton]

They have one I first used back int 60s.

humongous - definition of humongous in English from the Oxford dictionary

[taxexile]

gender-fluid

well, you learn something new every day.

i always thought it was the post coital rectal seepage that afflicts those who find themselves at the business end of a pre-op ladyboy.

[Maanaam]

fuhgeddaboudit, a US colloquialism reflecting an attempted New York or New Jersey pronunciation of the phrase “forget about it”.

That's just silly to make that a word. It's simply lazy linking.
Midaswell add fukdifino and fukyu.

[Norton]

fukdifino and fukyu

You will find those in the Nihongo jisho (日本語辞書 "Japanese language dictionary")

[Gazza]

fuhgeddaboudit, a US colloquialism reflecting an attempted New York or New Jersey pronunciation of the phrase “forget about it”.

That's just silly to make that a word. It's simply lazy linking.
Midaswell add fukdifino and fukyu.

Or you can jusforgerabourit and talk proper like that which what I does.

[CaptainNemo]

fukdifino and fukyu

You will find those in the Nihongo jisho (日本語辞書 "Japanese language dictionary")

Fukyuu
腐朽
Rot

Slagroom and Slutspurt sounds good.
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[beerlaodrinker]

Moobs eh? Seems the Oxford English Dictionary people have been lurking on teakdoor.
What about BLURTER? Is that in there yet?

[patsycat]

I copied one of your pictures for the illiterate version.