BUTTHURT IS NOW OFFICIAL
(thefrisky.com) Dictionary.com just made a ton of slang words official, including "Woke," "Misgender," and "Butthurt." The website added 300 new words and updated 1,700 entries this week, and while Dictionary.com isn't the old, stuffy Oxford (which would be even cooler), it's a really big deal. Now, it's official that "misgender," or to call someone by the wrong gender pronoun, is actually a verb. Dictionary.com CEO Liz McMillan said, "We get over 5.5 billion word lookups every year, and we analyze those lookups to identify new words that we haven't seen before. And when we see a critical mass of volume against a particular word, our lexicography team will start researching." While some of the new additions mean big things for social change, other words are just fun and useful words you usually had to look up on Urban Dictionary before. Here are a few others added to Dictionary.com:
Lumbersexual
A man whose style of dress and appearance is reminiscent of the ruggedly masculine stereotype of the lumberjack.
Manspread
To sit with one's legs far apart, taking up too much space on a seat shared with other people.
Train wreck
A person who has experienced a personal failure, disaster, etc.
Warmist
A person who accepts global warming as a reality (a term used by people who reject the concept).
Al desko
Of meals or eating at one's desk in an office.
Presstitute
A journalist or media source whose news coverage is considered to be inappropriately influenced by business interests, political motives, etc.
Lumbersexual
A man whose style of dress and appearance is reminiscent of the ruggedly masculine stereotype of the lumberjack.
Manspread
To sit with one's legs far apart, taking up too much space on a seat shared with other people.
Train wreck
A person who has experienced a personal failure, disaster, etc.
Warmist
A person who accepts global warming as a reality (a term used by people who reject the concept).
Al desko
Of meals or eating at one's desk in an office.
Presstitute
A journalist or media source whose news coverage is considered to be inappropriately influenced by business interests, political motives, etc.
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