New English words (2024-2025)

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New English words (2024-2025)

Pink pound

1. The pink pound refers to the collective purchase power of the LGBTQ+ community, particularly in the UK.
2. Pink pound is a type of dessert made out of pink pudding.
3. A pink pound is a pound that isn’t worth anything. It is a collectors item.

Quaranteam

1. A group of people who choose to quarantine together during a pandemic to limit exposure and maintain social interaction and support.
2. A group of people who must quarantine together to keep their social life intact and to avoid getting others sick.
3. A group of people who are obligated to be in quarantine together during a pandemic, to prevent infecting others with the virus and maintaining social interaction and support.

Babymooners

1. Persons who take a relaxing or celebratory trip taken by expectant parents before the birth of their baby. Mostly to enjoy the last time a vacation as a couple with no worries or responsibilities.
2. People who are born in the period after the second world war when there was a temporary marked increase in the birth rate.
3. Babies who are blessed with a moon stone for some extra protection, for some religious purposes.

Omnishambles

1. Something that’s extremely messy.
2. A rare and intense weather pattern that brings every possible type of extreme weather at once.
3. A situation that has been comprehensively mismanaged, characterized by a string of blunders and miscalculations.

Cancel culture

1. It’s a trend where people cancel all their appointments because they like it.
2. Cancel culture is when a person is thought to have acted or spoken about something in a way that’s unacceptable and then they get boycotted, fired or assaulted.
3. Cancel culture means that people cancel their subscriptions to save money.

Salami attacks

1. Military strategy to do small amounts of damage to wear out an oponent.
2. Type of financial fraud where small amounts are stolen over a long period of time.
3. A method of slicing food so thinly that each piece is almost transparent, often used in fine dining to create an elegant presentation.

Shoulder surfing

1. The practice of spying on the user of a cash-dispensing machine or other electronic device in order to obtain their personal identification number, password, etc.
2. The practice of spying on the user in front of you in order to obtain their password, personal identification number, etc. by looking over their shoulder.
3. The practice of stealing personal information such as personal identification numbers, passwords, etc. from the user of a cash-dispensing machine by spying on them.

Hotdesking

1. The ability to change the temperature around your desk.
2. The competition where people compete with each other to eat the most hotdogs while being seated at a desk.
3. A flexible office arrangement where employees don’t have a specific desk. They choose from different available workplaces inside the building. First come, first served.

Presenteeism

1. The skill of being able to give outstanding presentations, which is commonly used in the corporate world.
2. A phenomenon that occurs when employees are physically present at their workplace, but are not able to do their work due to stress, sickness or other things that may have an effect on their work prestations.
3. The fear of being absent when something remarkable happens.

Buzzworthy

1. Describes something cool or special that people notice right away and want to share with others.
2. Likely to arouse the interest and attention of the public, either by media coverage or word of mouth.
3. Something that is worth the money that you’ve spent on it.

Digital detox

1. Digital detox is when you clean your electronic devices with a special soap to remove viruses.
2. It means that you remove everything from your electronic device to start over again as if your device is brand new.
3. A digital detox is a period where people forgoes from electronic devices as an attempt to reduce stress or focus on social interaction in the physical world.

Phubber

1. A type of rare bird found in tropical regions, known for it's loud calls.
2. A person who specilizes in the art of creating intricate, decorative fabrics using a technique called phubbing.
3. Someone who ignores the person they are with and only gives attention to their phone.

Necknomination

1. An online drinking game where people film themselves while downing alcohol, then choose someone else to outperform them to take on even a bigger challenge.
2. A series of necknominations went from one person to another where one person challenges another, creating a wave of videos of entertaining and dangerous stunts amongst friends.
3. A term used in politics to describe a situation where two candidates have very close vote counts causing them to stand neck by neck.

Senior moment

1. a temporary mental lapse (humorously attributed to the gradual loss of one's mental faculties as one grows older).
2. Moments of some kind of activity only for seniors in retirement homes.
3. Moments when only adults do some activity together, a night without kids.

Copout

1. Avoiding to fulfill a promise or task because you’re too shy , or afraid that you can’t do it .
2. An expression used commonly among police officers to indicate that they’re ending their shift soon.
3. Used when someone is very tired or ready to call it a day.

Upcycling

1. You use non wanted items to transform them into another product. That product mostly has a higher value. You do this to reduce the amount of resources you need.
2. Riding a bicycle upwards/ to a higher location.
3. You buy something new and you pimp it.

Bidie-in

1. A traditional Scottish dance performed during festivals.
2. A special type of indoor plant known for its ability to purify air and give off a nice fragrance.
3. A term that describes living with a partner in a romantical/ intimate relationship without being married.

Poverty porn

1. News items that show disturbing footage of homeless people in difficult situations, using close-ups and dramatic music to evoke emotion without providing context or solutions.
2. Poverty porn is the use of shocking or dramatic images and stories of poverty to manipulate emotions or attract attention advertising or charity campaigns. It tends to exploit vulnerable people for emotional impact or financial gain.
3. Poverty porn is a kind of documentary genre that examines how porn jobs often correlate with how poor a country's population is.

Gazumping

1. A situation where a company unexpectedly raises the price of a service or product after a potential client has shown interest but before a contract is signed, forcing the client to pay more than initially anticipated.
2. Describes a scenario in retail where a store clerk bypasses a waiting customer to serve another customer who appears wealthier, hoping to secure a larger sale or tip.
3. A term used in real estate to describe a situation where a seller accepts a higher offer from a new buyer after already having verbally agreed to sell the property to an initial buyer.

ASBO

1. ASBO stands for advanced special bribing operation.
2. ASBO stands for anti-social behaviour order.
3. ASBO stands for abandoned station back office.

Apple picking

1. The activity of harvesting apples directly from trees, typically done in orchards during the autumn season.
2. A crime currently gaining traction in urban areas in which someone steals an iPhone out of the user’s hand and or pocket.
3. A colloquial term used in tech to describe the practice of selecting only the most popular or "in-demand" products or features to sell, while ignoring less popular items.

Doughnut development

1. A process by which bakers create a network of interconnected dough balls to form a "dough web", ensuring optimum air flow and gluten structure across a range of fluffy, perfectly golden-brown pastries.
2. An economic and social framework that aims to ensure that all people have access to essential resources and a good quality of life within the ecological limits of the planet, promoting sustainability and equity.
3. A form of urban planning in which cities grow in a circle around an empty centre to keep the centre free of buildings and infrastructure to allow for natural habitats, parks or even a 'wildlife doughnut' to support urbanbiodiversity.