‘Moobs’ and ‘YOLO’ among 1,000 words and terms added to dictionary

Moobs, gender-fluid, and YOLO are among more than 1,000 words and terms that have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED).

‘Moobs’ and ‘YOLO’ among 1,000 words and terms added to dictionary

Moobs, a term for unusually prominent breasts on a man; gender-fluid, referring to a person who does not identify with a single fixed gender; and YOLO, the acronym for the phrase “you only live once”, made the cut in the OED’s quarterly update.

Food-related terms including cheese eater, chefdom and cheeseball will appear in the new edition alongside Yogalates, the combination of yoga and Pilates, and Westminster bubble, an insular community of politicians.

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