A host of text phrases have become part of the 1,000 new words in an online dictionary
Duckface: Katie Price and Rihanna |
It is joined by al desko for eating at your desk, man crush for non-sexual bonding between two men and jel, short for jealous.
Other terms include shabby chic for deliberately aged items, along with a slew of social media acronyms.
Judy Pearsall, of OxfordDictionaries.com, said: “In this age of the selfie, it’s no surprise that monthly usage of duckface, for instance, is 35% higher than last year.”
A slew of social media or gaming terms and abbreviations that will leave your mates either well jel or asking WTAF are included in the latest and so far largest quarterly update to OxfordDictionaries.com.
Would you ever use text speak?
There are also business terms like "crony capitalism" and food references like the "five second rule", the apocryphal time between dropping food on the floor and it becoming too full of bacteria to pick up and eat.
Other new terms include fone, a misspelling of phone, tiki-taka, a style of aesthetically pleasing football made popular by Barcelona, and shabby chic, a piece of clothing or furniture deliberately aged for fashion reasons.
Last month Oxford Dictionaries announced vape as its international word of the year, reflecting the meteoric rise in popularity - and scrutiny - of electronic cigarettes.
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