What new addition to the English dictionary do you like?

[purplepoppy]

The Oxford English Dictionary has been updated and added a few welsh words/phrases. A few have been anglicised for obvious reasons.

The one's to now enrich your vocabulary and cause Scrabble fights are,

• Bachgen, noun (a boy)
• Boys bach, noun and interjection (exclamation of surprise) or a group of boys
• Bwbach, noun (house elf) "booback"
• In one’s oils, phrase (at ease)
• Now in a minute, phrase
• Twpsyn, noun (fool idiot) "toopsin"

So these are now considered official English words too, but which will you be slipping into conversation tomorrow?

Bachgen

Bois bach/ boys bach

Bwbach

In one's oils

Now in a minute

Twpsyn

A total of 21 votes were cast: 2 girls and 19 guys. See detailed results

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1 mo

I've absolutely no idea why GAG insisted on putting this in sexuality

[Laws-Of-Existence]

Why do your depictions have happy merchant noses? ㅤ

[pierre7i]

As GaG put this question in 'Sexuality' @purplepoppy I'd like to suggest Oxford English Dictionary correctly shows the word 'cum' in it's sexual context.

They currently show 'cum' like this:

• Preposition Use and Meaning: "and" or "plus", combined with another noun (e. g., bedroom-cum-study means a room that is both a bedroom and a study).
Origin: Borrowed directly from Latin (cum, meaning "with").
• Slang and Sexual Meanings: For the vulgar or slang noun/verb meaning (semen or orgasm), this is shown under the standard spelling "come".
'Come' is not how people usually spell it when using it in as a sexual context, for example to describe 'ejaculation', 'orgasm' and 'semen', when it's almost always spelled 'cum' !

So perhaps they need to change that?

[Veronika_p]

One I like is “doomscrolling.” 😅 It describes that habit of endlessly scrolling through negative or upsetting news online. It’s surprisingly useful because it captures something that became a very real part of modern life in just one word. 📱

I also like how English keeps evolving with technology and culture. Some new words sound silly at first, then suddenly you realize you use them all the time. 😄

[Sunrising]

My vocabulary has been enriched by you today, why wait until tomorrow to use such wonderful vibrant words and phrases, and I'm in one's oils to use them.

But tomorrow I'm sure they will be American English words too.

To prove I mean what I say, now in a minute, I will be using all of them, and I would be a bwbach or twpsyn not too.

But hey I'm a man not a bachgen, though your question has taken me by boys bach or bois back!

But regarding your update, perhaps GAG's was in Welsh language mode, and if you had asked them not to put this question in the Rhywioldeb category they would have understood you.

[Sunrising]

Okay boyo, do you think I'd make a good Cymro?

[Sunrising]

I'd like come down to the valleys, and give you a cwtch!

[Sunrising]

If I had to pick one word or phrase from the above choice, then I would choose bwbach, because anything sounding like something with boobs must be good lol.

[NathanDavis]

"now in a minute"

because that just sounds like the most Mexican thing to ever say which is "ahorita"

when you say "ahorita" it can literally be now in a minute to now or never... lol

[RavVid]

Definitely toopsin. It has a beautiful contemptuous sound. It is most definitely going round the world in the anglosphere.

Not confident it will make it into Indian English as they are excessively polite. That might be a problem with it's Canadian uptake as well. No prob in that regard with Australian uptake though drongo is the standard word.

[AviatorTom]

Can't wait to call someone a Twpsyn. And when they say, "What did you call me?", I'll simply respond with "You idiot!".

[ohsheeT]

In one's oil is good for me without the oil in the right places we are squeaky LOL our bodies do not work right

But to be honest all of those are great they have more meaning to them than the word

Simp

[xawyx-3]

"Now in a minute" is obviously in English, it doesn't sound Welsh at all... but I like the phrase.
Twpsyn and Bwbach sound like the native Welsh words... I don't speak any Celtic language, but I like them.

[mstbooblover]

I have a wee spot for "Twpsyn" and "Bwbach". Whether I'll use those new words, I don't know, because people I'll be talking to will not necessaryly know their meaning.

[browsingthroughthe]

Now in a minute 😋☝🏻 if you know you know

@purplepoppy

[exitseven]

in one's oils sounds a little obscene. I sort of like it.

[Iron_Man]

I like the original Webster English dictionary the Welsh are like Cubans living in Miami. It’s too much to overwhelming

[AngryCarl3]

I'm sure these are all perfectly cromulent words.