![]() You’ve almost certainly heard of the fashion-related sense of look – as in, for example, ‘a fresh summer look’. There’s a similar sort of playfulness between another of this month’s words and its etymon. But were you aware that sea change itself originates from a line in The Tempest? Nowadays, even the words Shakespeare helped coin are getting modern adaptations… It’s a cute play on sea changer and is very close in meaning to that term, except that sea changers typically move to the coast and need not be remote workers. It refers to a remote worker who moves from a city to a rural location as part of a lifestyle change. My favourite of the five words we’ve curated for you this month is e-changer. The Associated Press contributed to this report.Welcome back to another edition of the New Words blog! Included in those 455 new words and phrases were internet slang “FTW” and “amirite.” “FTW,” an abbreviation of “for the win,” is an indication of support that the dictionary says is “often used to acknowledge a clever or funny response to a question or meme.” “Amirite” is an amalgamation of words meaning “am I right.” Its last batch of new words came in October of last year, when editors said the pandemic had “only increased the practice” of communicating online, adding: “The quick and informal nature of messaging, texting, and tweeting has contributed to a vocabulary newly rich in efficient and abbreviated expression.” The Merriam-Webster site has about 40 million unique monthly users and about 100 million monthly page views. "New terms and new uses for existing terms are the constant in a living language, and our latest list brings together both new and likely familiar words that have shown extensive and established use," editors added. Merriam-Webster frequently updates the terms included in its dictionary, writing in part: "Just as the language never stops evolving, the dictionary never stops expanding." The word refers to the character Angus "Mac" MacGyver in the eponymous series from the 1980s, in which the protagonist was “known for regularly improvising solutions to practical problems with limited tools and materials,” per Merriam-Webster.Īnd though the term has been around for decades, the dictionary said words in the slang category “have traditionally taken longer to meet our criteria, but that timeline is getting shorter as the internet accelerates the adoption of informal language.” Other new additions to the slang and informal language category include “janky,” which refers either to something of poor quality or does not operate properly, “sus,” a shortened version of suspicious or suspect and “MacGyver,” which means to construct or repair an object with tools or items conveniently nearby. ![]() The dance went through many iterations on various social media platforms, including the now defunct Vine, though the meaning has changed in recent years. The term “yeet” falls under Merriam-Webster’s slang and informal language category, and can be used as either an interjection – used to “express surprised, approval or excited enthusiasm – or as a verb – meaning “to throw especially with force and without regard for the thing being thrown.”Īccording to Know Your Meme, the term first emerged online in 2014 when individuals began to dance along to the song "Yeet" by Quill. There are now thousands of altcoins, or alternative coins, including Ethereum, Polkadot, Dogecoin, Stellar and more. We added 370 new words to the dictionary! /HykpJWf3HW
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