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10-09-2007, 08:22 AM | #1 |
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Oxford English Dictionary
New words that you can now use with confidnce as they are in the new OED include: chav, bling, scam, minging, lush, bovvered, size zero.
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10-09-2007, 10:57 AM | #2 | |
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10-09-2007, 11:43 PM | #3 |
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Pass. I just noted the content as reported in the Daily Telegraph, now recycled.
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Lush is hardly new, it goes back to Middle English as an adjective meaning fertile, thriving, opulent. More recently, as a noun, it is slang for an alcoholic. |
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