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ImSoooSure
2-02-03, 01:58 AM
This was on my home page. Funny stuff! :D

Unbelievable! THIS Is In the Dictionary?

This is how you can tell the English language is alive and well on Planet Earth: We're creating new words. A lot of them. So many that two leading dictionaries on both sides of the Atlantic--the venerable Oxford English Dictionary and Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary--have added new words to their pages. Read this and update your vocabulary.

anoraky: Socially inept and studious or obsessive person with unfashionable and largely solitary interests
bad ass: A tough, aggressive, or uncooperative person; a trouble-maker
bling-bling: the wearing of expensive designer clothing and flashy jewelry
booty: buttocks
bootylicious: Thanks to Destiny's Child, this is a description of exceptional booty. The song lyrics that changed the dictionary: "Cause my body too bootylicious for ya babe"
bunny-boiler: a vindictive woman (see Glenn Close in "Fatal Attraction")
bunny-hugger: conservationist or animal lover chick-flick: movies that appeal to women
chick-lit: books that appeal to women
gearhead: car enthusiast
hottie: a physically attractive person
noogie: the prank of rubbing your knuckles on somebody's head
treehugger: an environmentalist
roadrage: a motorist's uncontrolled anger that is usually generated by an irritating act of another motorist and is expressed by aggressive or violent behavior
spinmeister: An expert at presenting information or events to the media in a favorable light

wavemaster
2-02-03, 10:32 AM
Originally posted by ImSoooSure

spinmeister: An expert at presenting information or events to the media in a favorable light

Methinks that they have forgotten another word:

wavemeister - generally a person obsessed with 80's Synthpop beyond any reasonable measures; also taking a lot of personal loadings to fulfill the obsession (e.g. listening to the WERGFM Hott 80's at an ungodly time)

:lol:

ImSoooSure
2-02-03, 02:00 PM
:laugh: Wave! How could they forget that one?!?

I can't believe they actually added bling-bling. :rolleyes:

BlueMolly2001
2-02-03, 02:21 PM
I can't believe they added: bootylicious. *shakes head*

pamela*
2-02-03, 03:54 PM
they actually added bling-bling ?? Ok, how many of us actually use this term? :lol:

80sTrivia
2-02-03, 05:51 PM
Another sign of our erroding culture... ;) Actually, those words being added to the Oxford Dictionary is quite funny, when you think about it. I can just envision some bespectacled, sixty-ish Oxford professor, pontificating the meaning of bling-bling and bootylicious!!! :lol:

djdaffy1227
2-02-03, 06:58 PM
Originally posted by wavemaster


Methinks that they have forgotten another word:

wavemeister - generally a person obsessed with 80's Synthpop beyond any reasonable measures; also taking a lot of personal loadings to fulfill the obsession (e.g. listening to the WERGFM Hott 80's at an ungodly time)

:lol:

My Goodness, am I a Wavemeister too? :lol:

Wavemeister is a state of mind :D

wavemaster
2-03-03, 01:14 AM
Originally posted by djdaffy1227


My Goodness, am I a Wavemeister too? :lol:

Wavemeister is a state of mind :D

See...everyone has it's little vice... :D