We've seen this figure increase significantly, along with use of the related verb "to showroom" and the noun "showroomer".ĭance to popular music in a sexually provocative manner involving thrusting hip movements and a low, squatting stance. īefore 2013, there were just a handful of examples of this on our corpus. The practice of visiting a shop or shops in order to examine a product before buying it online at a lower price. However, in August 2013, the world's first hamburger made with in-vitro meat was served up by Dutch scientists, raising the possibility that the general public may have more occasion to use this word in the not-too-distant future. This word remains very rare, largely because the phenomenon it refers to is still in its infancy. Man-made meat is more commonly (and neutrally) known as "in-vitro meat" or "cultured meat". Extensive coverage of the story in the world's media was guaranteed by the animal's appearance – it was described as looking like a cross between a teddy bear and a domestic cat.Ī form of meat produced synthetically from biological tissue. The discovery of the olinguito was announced by the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in August: it represented the first identification of a new species of mammalian carnivore in the western hemisphere in 35 years. A spike in usage was apparent in March–May 2013, which may be due in part to the market crash around that time.Ī small furry mammal found in mountain forests in Colombia and Ecuador, the smallest member of the raccoon family. By 2012, the virtual currency was attracting wider attention and we began to see its steadily increasing use. The term first appeared in late 2008 in a research paper, and the first bitcoins were created in 2009. (Binge-drinking remains unchallenged in the top position.)Ī digital currency in which transactions can be performed without the need for a central bank. In the past year, binge-watching chalked up almost as much evidence on our corpus as binge-eating. ![]() In 2013, binge-watching got a further boost when the video-streaming company Netflix began releasing episodes of its serial programming all at once. The word has come into its own with the advent of on-demand viewing and online streaming. The word binge-watch has been used in the circles of television fandom since the late 1990s, but it has exploded into mainstream use in 2013. To watch multiple episodes of a television programme in rapid succession, typically by means of DVDs or digital streaming. The first references to the bedroom tax in our corpus appear in 2011 but usage increased dramatically around the time this new provision came into force, in April 2013. Critics and opponents soon began to refer to the new penalty as the "bedroom tax". The Welfare Reform Act 2012 proposed various changes to the rules governing social security benefits in the UK, including an "under-occupancy penalty" to be imposed on households that were receiving housing benefit and that were judged to have bedrooms surplus to their requirements. (in the UK) a reduction in the amount of housing benefit paid to a claimant if the property they are renting is judged to have more bedrooms than is necessary for the number of the people in the household, according to criteria set down by the government. Photograph: Oxford Dictionaries Oxford Dictionaries' Word of the Year shortlist Selfie promotion … graphic shows the ascent of selfie in common usage. Australian English has something of a penchant for -ie words … so this helps to support the evidence for selfie having originated in Australia." The use of the diminutive -ie suffix is notable, as it helps to turn an essentially narcissistic enterprise into something rather more endearing. "In early examples, the word was often spelled with a -y, but the -ie form is more common today and has become the accepted spelling. Judy Pearsall explained its evolution: "The hashtag #selfie appeared on the photo-sharing website Flickr as early as 2004, but usage wasn't widespread until around 2012. It has since produced an array of spinoffs, including helfie (hairstyle self), belfie (bum selfie), welfie (workout selfie), drelfie (drunken selfie), and even bookshelfie – a snap taken for the purposes of literary self-promotion. ![]() And sorry about the focus, it was a selfie." I had a hole about 1cm long right through my bottom lip. ![]() The word can be traced back to a post on an Australian online forum in 2002: "Um, drunk at a mates 21st, I tripped ofer and landed lip first (with front teeth coming a very close second) on a set of steps. Editorial director Judy Pearsall said: "Using the Oxford Dictionaries language research programme, which collects around 150m words of current English in use each month, we can see a phenomenal upward trend in the use of selfie in 2013, and this helped to cement its selection."
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