Here's the most popular word in the past month from a rival word of the day. It is meh, and is a term indicating indifference, to be used when one simply doesn't care. For example:
A: What do you want for dinner?
B: Meh.
The word is now sweeping the Internet, according to the Guardian. Used in the Simpsons. Defined by Danny Katz as "totally blank-brained can't-be-stuffed indifference." Scored a startling 5934 positive votes and only 514 negative in the Urban Dictionary, a prolific (too prolific) source of new words of all kinds. It is "a slang dictionary. With your definitions." Thanks Debbie for the source.
Tuesday 26 June 2007
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Lorcan Dempsey said yesterday:
'The Urban Dictionary [is] an important cultural document which should be periodically captured'
http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/001383.html
I use this word far too often, with usage increasing toward the end of the week.
I love words like this, which, until you start hearing/using them you never needed... :)
Unlike many of the words in the Urban Dictionary (complete confections) is is one which we suspect has been lurking in our usage for some time, even if it hasn't: it seems natural.
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