Merriam-Webster just added 370 new words and phrases, including “pumpkin spice,” “side hustle,” “yeet,” “sus,” and “Metaverse.”

Merriam-Webster just added 370 new words and phrases to its dictionary, including one we’ve heard a lot the past month . . . “PUMPKIN SPICE.”  Here are a few more worth mentioning.

Now I am going to be honest with you, I don’t know what half of these words even mean. Thankfully for us they have descriptions for each word.

I think I have it figured out though. Most of these words are just abbreviations of actual real words that have been around forever.

For example. The word, SUS has been added to the Merriam Webster Dictionary. The I guess word now SUS is just short for suspect, it doesn’t end with that word though. Another one that was added is Laggy. Laggy is just a cooler way of saying Lag. That is it, we have become such lazy people that we don’t even want to say full words anymore.

Here is my 31 year old angry rant!

I blame it on texting, when texting began to get really big people started shortening words. For example, You became U and “See you there” became CUT. So it has to be because of text that no one wants to say the words in their full form.

Okay short rant!

I do have a question about a word not on this list. Have you ever heard someone use the word “bet” as a way to agree with you? My friends have been using the word for a while and I honestly do not get it.

For example, I told my buddy I was on my way to his house. He responded by saying “Bet”, I had no idea what he meant. Finally after asking him, he laughed in my face and said it means, “cool or Ok, or see you soon”

All I know is I say dude and man a lot, I will just stick to those!

Incase you want to look up more goofy words here is the site:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/

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• Side hustle

  work performed for income supplementary to one’s primary job

• Metaverse

  a persistent virtual environment that allows access to and interoperability of multiple individual virtual realities

• Laggy

  having a delayed or slow response

• Space force

  the military organization of a nation for space warfare

• Yeet

  slang used to express surprise, approval, or excited enthusiasm

• Video doorbell

   a small security camera that is designed for use on an exterior door

• Magnet fishing

   the sport or hobby of using a strong magnet attached to the end of a rope to find metal objects in bodies of water

• Janky

  of very poor quality

• Sus

  slang for suspicious or suspect

• Subvariant

  one of two or more distinctive forms or types of the same variant.  (A few more pandemic words that got added are “supply chain,” “booster dose,” “false positive,” and “false negative.”)

• LARP

  It stands for live-action role-playing

• Galentine's Day

   a holiday observed on February 13th as a time to celebrate friendships, especially among women

• Plant-based

  consisting primarily or entirely of food derived from plants

• Baller

  excellent, exciting, or extraordinary, especially in a way that’s suggestive of a lavish lifestyle

• Adorkable

  socially awkward or quirky in a way that is endearing. 

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