House”, reveals that a clewner is a high-ranking villain, and the dance is a hanging. Bouse makes an appearance—another of ...

At first, I was sad to see that the linguist team at the Oxford English Dictionary had picked “rage bait” as the Word of the ...

"Slop," which refers to creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content, has landed the title of Merriam-Webster's 2025 word of ...

The Oxford Dictionary’s word of the year is “rage bait,” which the editors define as “online content deliberately designed to ...

For us linguists, the flurry of "word of the year" announcements from dictionaries and publishers is a holiday tradition as anticipated as mince pies ...

So many things have made it into the dictionary lately, but this year, one piece of internet slang was crowned Word of the ...

Rage bait’ named Oxford’s word of the year for 2025 - Rage bait is defined as ‘online content deliberately designed to elicit anger or outrage by being frustrating, provocative, or offensive’ ...

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The word "slop" was first used to refer to soft mud in the 1700s, but has since evolved to mean of little value — especially when referring to online content of low quality that's made with artificial ...