The new Oxford English Dictionary is out today!

A few new words by all account are:

Cyberslacker: Someone who uses his company's internet connection during work hours to surf the net.

Blamestorming: A group discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed and who is responsible.

Cantopop: Asia pop industry featuring Cantonese lyrics and western style music.

Bupkis: An expression meaning nothing, as in zilch.

Muggle: A person who is not conversant in a particular activity or skill.

Robata: Type of charcoal grill used in Japanese cooking

Anyone aware of any more? If so that'd be cushdy. Not sure about the spelling of that - I'll have to get some bling-bling and buy the OED.

James.



A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

As far as I'm aware it's cushti or kushti, but I could well be wrong. Bit impressive of J.K Rowling to get a word in there so early in her career.

Found this on the OED website. Have go at answering them without cheating and see how many you get.


Match the new words to its definition in the Oxford Dictionary of English.

Words

Eeyorish bangarang bashert bootylicious
cube farm egosurf emo glamazon
marmalize mook muggle polyamory

Definitions

1. pessimistic or gloomy
2. beat someone up
3. a stupid person
4. search the Internet for instances of one's own name or links to one's own website
5. a glamorous, powerfully assertive woman
6. a person who is not conversant with a particular activity or skill
7. a large office divided into cubicles for individual workers
8. a style of rock music resembling punk
9. the practice of engaging in multiple sexual relationships with the knowledge and consent of all the people involved
10. sexually attractive
11. a person's soulmate or ideal partner
12. an uproar or disturbance

Answers provided later!



A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

It is Cushti. Apparently it's a Romany word, here's an address. Can't do links.

[www.bbc.co.uk]

And I love it that marmalize got in there.

Not fair, there are 13 words and 12 definitions.

Where in the site is that test? I tried to find it and couldn't.

I think 'cube farm' is the phrase for which they want a definition. Hence down to 12.

Oh ok, thanks, must be :)

Then my attempts:

Eeyorish - 1
bangarang - 11
bashert - 12
bootylicious -10
cube farm -7
egosurf - 4
emo - 8
glamazon - 5
marmalize - 2
mook - 3
muggle -6
polyamory - 9

ok

Eeyorish - 1
bangarang - 8
bashert - 11
bootylicious - 10
cube farm - 7
egosurf - 4
emo - 3
glamazon - 5
marmalize - 2
mook - 11
muggle - 6
polyamory - 9

(well you never know!)



Post Edited (08-21-03 15:55)

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If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.

I'm not sure about the last two.

1 - Eeyorish
2 - marmalize
3 - mook
4 - egosurf
5 - glamazon
6 - muggle
7 - cube farm
8 - emo
9 - polyamory
10 - bootylicious
11 - bashert
12 - bangarang

Promised answers earlier than inaticipated but have to stop cyberslacking and pick my mum from the station!

Answers

1. Eeyorish
2. marmalize
3. mook
4. egosurf
5. glamazon
6. muggle
7. cube farm
8. emo
9. polyamory
10. bootylicious
11. bashert
12. bangarang



A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Argh I just mixed the last 2!!!!!

I got (written down on a piece of paper before I scrolled this far through the thread...) # 1 to 7, 9 & 10. I thought that 'emo' might be #8, and couldn't decide how to assign 'bangarang' & 'bashert' to # 8 & 12.

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"God rot Botchkamos Istochnik!"

I got 'bagerang', 'bashert', and 'emo' mixed up. got the rest right.