Mitzi Ilagan | YoManila.com
Yas! They’ve heard us! Doesn’t it sound more exciting than being thrilled as saying “Yes!”? From the Oxford Dictionary blog post, a lot of millennial-sounding words have now been added into the dictionary. #SquadGoals, a hashtag used as a term referring to a person or thing seen as a model to aspire to or emulate, was a term colloquially used in Instagram.
For the food words, here are new terms which we could officially use:
superfruit (NOUN) a nutrient-rich fruit considered to be especially beneficial for health and well-being.
shoestring fries (PLURAL NOUN) very thinly cut chips.
takoyaki (NOUN) a Japanese snack of savoury ball-shaped cakes containing chopped octopus, made from wheat batter cooked on a specially shaped griddle.
tonkatsu sauce (NOUN) a Japanese sweet and savoury sauce made from fruit and vegetables with soy sauce and other flavourings, served with breaded pork or other fried dishes.
For millennials, here are words which you Grammar nazis shouldn’t laugh at, and are now in the dictionary:
biatch (NOUN, informal) used as an affectionate or disparaging form of address.
cat lady (NOUN,humorous) an older woman who lives alone with a large number of cats, to which she is thought to be obsessively devoted.
craptastic (ADJECTIVE, informal) remarkably poor in quality; extremely bad.
drunk text (NOUN, informal) a text message sent while drunk, typically one that is embarrassing or foolish.
fitspiration or fitspo (NOUN) a person or thing that serves as motivation for someone to sustain or improve health and fitness.
haterade (also hatorade) (NOUN, mass noun, informal) excessive negativity, criticism, or resentment.
in vino veritas (EXCLAMATION) under the influence of alcohol, a person tells the truth.
sausage fest (NOUN, informal) an event or group in which the majority of participants are male.
shamer (NOUN) a person who publicly mocks or criticizes someone for a particular aspect of their appearance or behavior in order to make them feel humiliated or ashamed.
unsee (VERB, informal) with object, usually with negative Erase the memory of or no longer register (something unpleasant or distasteful that one has seen or noticed)
