According to a blog on Merriam-Webster’s unabridged website, more than 1,400 new terms and phrases were added to the unabridged version of the dictionary. Here are a few of the new words:
athleisure: casual clothing designed to be worn for exercising and for general use
nomophobia: fear of being without access to a working cell phone
dox: to publicly identify or publish private information about (someone) especially as a form of punishment or revenge
microlending: the lending of money in small amounts to impoverished individuals and groups who are unable to obtain loans from mainstream banks
waggle dance: a series of figure-eight movements performed by a bee to indicate the direction and abundance of a distant food source
dipsogenic: producing thirst
urban fantasy: a genre of imaginative fiction featuring supernatural characters or elements in an urban setting
meet-cute: a cute, charming, or amusing first encounter between romantic partners (as in a movie)
TMI (abbreviation): too much information
FOMO: fear of missing out
hella (adverb): very, extremely
hella (adjective): a lot of
wacky tobacky: marijuana
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