Oxford Dictionary of English Adds New Terms

Posted on August 27, 2010

The Oxford Dictionary of English (ODE) has added 200 new words and phrases in its latest edition. Here are some of the new terms. You can see a longer list here on Time.com.

• automagically: automatically and in a way that seems ingenious, inexplicable, or magical
• bromance: a close but non-sexual relationship between two men
• buzzkill: a person or thing that has a depressing or dispiriting effect
• chillax: calm down and relax
• defriend: another term for unfriend (remove someone from a list of friends or contacts on a social networking site)
• freemium: a business model, especially on the Internet, whereby basic services are provided free of charge while more advanced features must be paid for
• frenemy: a person with whom one is friendly despite a fundamental dislike or rivalry
• LBD: little black dress
• matchy-matchy: excessively colour-coordinated
• turducken: a roast dish consisting of a chicken inside a duck inside a turkey
• staycation: holiday spent in one's home country
• tweetup: a meeting organized by means of posts on Twitter
• vuvuzela: long horn blown by fans at soccer matches
• wardrobe malfunction: an instance of a person accidentally exposing an intimate part of their body as a result of an article of clothing slipping out of position