14/05/2024
Language is a living creature which means it’s constantly evolving and enriching 🚀. Nowadays English is a great deal different thing from spoken 200 years ago🗿. Every year dictionaries and other manuals are entrenched with hundreds of new words. Here are some of latter-day items picked from Oxford and Merriam-Webster Dictionaries:
👩🏾💻Influencer (noun): A well-known or prominent person who uses the internet or social media to promote or generate interest in products, often for payment.
💸Side hustle (noun): (originally in African-American usage) a part-time job or occupation undertaken in addition to one’s main job in order to earn extra income.
🎃Pumpkin spice (noun): A mixture of ground spices (typically including cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and cloves) originally used as an ingredient in pumpkin pie filling, and now added as a flavouring to a variety of food items.
🦹🏼♀️TERF (noun): Trans-exclusionary radical feminist. A feminist whose advocacy of women’s rights excludes (or is thought to exclude) the rights of transgender women. Also more generally: a person whose views on gender identity are (or are considered) hostile to transgender people, or who opposes social and political policies designed to be inclusive of transgender people.
🫅🏾Enby (noun and adjective): A person who has a non-binary gender identity.
🤵🏻♂️First gentleman (noun): the husband or male partner of a president or other leader.
☄️Yeet (interjection, slang): used to express surprise, approval, or excited enthusiasm. Verb: to throw especially with force and without regard for the thing being thrown.
☎️Dumbphone (noun): a cell phone that does not include advanced software features (such as email or an internet browser) typically found on smartphones.
💝Galentine’s Day (noun): a holiday observed on February 13th as a time to celebrate friendships especially among women.
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