-- cyberbullying
(CNN) -- Don't be a denialist. Instead put on your jeggings (breathe in) or mankini (be scrupulous) and retweet this treatise.
After all, it's hip to be in the know on the 400 new words and clauses in the 12th edition of Concise Oxford English Dictionary, the retrenched edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. The smaller dictionary is meant to "cover the language of its own period."
Beware: Not entire words are built apt last, wrote dictionary redactor Angus Stevenson in a blog posting final week.
"Sadly, the new version has no apartment for colossal words favor brabble 'paltry noisy quarrel' and growlery 'place to growl in, personal apartment, den' -- what we might shriek a male grotto these days," Stevenson wrote above a blog.
Some of the new words:
-- cyberbullying: n. the use of electronic communication to tease a person, typically by sending messages of an intimidating or threatening nature.
-- denialist: n. a person who refuses to admit the fact of a concept or proposition that is aided by the majority of scientific or historical testify.
-- jeggings: pl. n. tight-fitting extend jeans for women, styled to approximate a pair of denim pants.
-- mankini: n. (pl. mankinis) a concise one-piece bathing garment for men, with a T-back.
-- retweet: v. (on the social networking service Twitter) repost or ahead (a message posted by dissimilar consumer). n. a reposted or forwarded message on Twitter.
-- ######ting: n. informal the bringing of ######ually explicit photographs or messages via mobile call.
-- woot: exclam. informal (primarily in electronic communication) secondhand to express elation, enthusiasm, or triumph.
The lexicon likewise adds new definitions of familiar words.
Thought a cougar was equitable an ornery old cat you might encounter in the American West? By immediately you know a cougar also is "an older woman seeking a ######ual relationship with a younger man."
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