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(CNN) -- Don't be a denialist. Instead put on your jeggings (breathe in) or mankini (be careful) and retweet this story.
After all, it's hip to be in the know aboard the 400 new words and clauses in the 12th edition of Concise Oxford English Dictionary, the abridged edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. The smaller glossary namely averaged apt "cover the language of its own period."
Beware: Not all words are built to final, wrote dictionary editor Angus Stevenson in a blog posting final week.
"Sadly, the new edition has not apartment for colossal words like brabble 'paltry noisy quarrel' and growlery 'place to growl in, private room, den' -- what we might shriek a man grotto these days," Stevenson wrote on a blog.
Some of the new words:
-- cyberbullying: n. the use of electronic communication to tease a human, typically at sending messages of an intimidating or threatening nature.
-- denialist: n. a person who refuses to agree the fact of a concept or proposition that is patronized by a heap of scientific or historical evidence.
-- jeggings: pl. n. tight-fitting stretch trousers for women, styled to approximate a pair of denim trousers.
-- mankini: n. (pl. mankinis) a concise one-piece bathing garment for men, with a T-back.
-- retweet: v. (on the social webbing service Twitter) repost or ahead (a information posted by different user). n. a reposted or forwarded message on Twitter.
-- ######ting: n. informal the sending of ######ually explicit photographs or messages via mobile call.
-- woot: exclam. informal (principally in electronic communication) secondhand to express elation, passion, or win.
The dictionary also adds new definitions of versed words.
Thought a cougar was just an ornery old cat you might meet in the American West? By immediately you know a cougar likewise is "one older female seeking a ######ual relationship with a younger man."
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