By Ninder Kaur
Free online dictionary releases list of 1,000 latest words added to its database – with new entries also including butt dial, bruh and wine o’clock
The Oxford English dictionary has today announced that the word Hangry, amongst others, has made the cut for this quarter.
This announcement comes as new research reveals just how people can suffer from becoming bad tempered or irritable as a result of hunger.
TOP TEN THINGS YOU SHOULDN’T DO WHEN YOU ARE HANGRY:
1. Make an important decision – you’re twice as likely to get it wrong.
2. Go food shopping – you’ll buy much more than you really need.
3. Argue with your partner – it will get ugly, quickly.
4. Go for an interview – you won’t make a good impression, you’ll just seem distracted.
5. Gamble – studies have found that people who are hungry are more likely to take risks with their money.
6. Get into a traffic jam – your normal patient resignation will quickly evaporate.
7. Dish out punishment – whether it’s grounding your son or deciding on whether to sack your employee, don’t do it. In studies judges who had missed meals handed out tougher sentences.
8. Call customer services – being kept on hold or arguing with call centre staff is already Britain’s No1 stressful thing.
9. Do something dangerous – studies have found that hunger affects people’s fight or flight response, causing us to be less safety-conscious.
10. Be around someone who is eating – your low sugar level blood will boil.
Here are just a few of the terms that will joining ‘hangry’ in the Oxford dictionary with their written definition.
awesomesauce ( adjective): extremely good; excellent
bants (noun): playfully teasing or mocking remarks exchanged with another person or group; banter
beer o’clock (noun): an appropriate time of day for starting to drink beer
brain fart (noun): a temporary mental lapse or failure to reason correctly
bruh (noun): a male friend (often used as a form of address)
butt dial (verb): inadvertently call (someone) on a mobile phone in one’s rear trouser pocket
cupcakery (noun): a bakery that specializes in cupcakes
deradicalization (noun): the action or process of causing a person with extreme views to adopt more moderate positions on political or social issues
fast-casual (adjective): denoting or relating to a type of high-quality self-service restaurant offering dishes that are prepared to order and more expensive than those available in a typical fast-food restaurant
fat-shame (verb): cause (someone judged to be fat or overweight) to feel humiliated by making mocking or critical comments about their size
fur baby (noun): a person’s dog, cat, or other furry pet animal
glanceable (adjective): denoting or relating to information, especially as displayed on an electronic screen, that can be read or understood very quickly and easily
kayfabe (noun): (in professional wrestling) the fact or convention of presenting staged performances as genuine or authentic
manic pixie dream girl (noun): (especially in film) a type of female character depicted as vivacious and appealingly quirky, whose main purpose within the narrative is to inspire a greater appreciation for life in a male protagonist
manspreading (noun): the practice whereby a man, especially one travelling on public transport, adopts a sitting position with his legs wide apart, in such a way as to encroach on an adjacent seat or seats
mic drop (noun): an instance of deliberately dropping or tossing aside one’s microphone at the end of a performance or speech one considers to have been particularly impressive
pocket dial (verb): inadvertently call (someone) on a mobile phone in one’s pocket, as a result of pressure being accidentally applied to a button or buttons on the phone
rando (noun): a person one does now know, especially one regarded as odd, suspicious, or engaging in socially inappropriate behaviour
wine o’clock (noun): an appropriate time of day for starting to drink wine
