Oxford Dictionary Adds New Words
There are some of the new words now appearing this month in the Oxford English Dictionary. The new words total nearly 700 and there are a many plus the Oxford description.
Air range “A small convection roaster, used to fry foods using veritably little oil painting ”Captain egregious “ a sardonic or disparaging name for someone who makes an egregious or redundant statement ”
CODA Stands for the association called Children of Deaf Grown-ups, formed in 1983, and it means “a person who has one or further parents or guardians who are deaf or hard of hail ” Crash diet “ A diet intended to affect in a veritably rapid-fire weight loss over a short period of time ”
Dap “A casual gesture of greeting, similar as a fist bump”
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Final girl “A womanish character in a film who survives to master or shirk the bushwhacker after all the other characters have been killed she is intelligent, serious and pure ”
Halfsies “ Halves; two equal shares or corridor; ” Scottish term for “ a hypodermic injection, especially a vaccination ”
Keep mug “A applicable mug”
Mononym “A one-word name, generally a celebrity”
Pinkie pledge “A pledge made while linking one’s little cutlet with that of another person it’s list and sincere”
Veranda corsair “A person who steals parcels that have been delivered and left unattended
Textspeak “the language of textbook messaging with all its bowdlerizations, acronyms, emoticons or emojis, etc. ”
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