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Coining new words

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Here is a massive list of new words and new definitions for existing words added to the Oxford English Dictionary in December 2020 alone! The sheer number of items on the list ~ for just ONE month ~ is slightly mind-boggling.

https://public.oed.com/updates/new-words-list-december-2020/

Let's coin some new words and/or new definitions for existing words in two categories:

1. for the proverbial real world
2. for the RHP message board world

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Onion

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Noun: a one hundred-word microfiction ~ exactly one hundred words long ~ not including the title and the author's name ~ that has been read out, recorded, and set to music or sound effects.

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Rustification: Dumbing down human communication to grimaces, giggles and grunts.

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HandyAndrewed

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Adjective: the state of having just been undone, exposed, dismissed ~ or otherwise dealt with ~ by a post that gets straight to the heart of the matter but doesn't have enough words in it to stretch all the way across the screen.

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May also be applicable to the pornographic industry😑🚬

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Class, send that one to Viz or Roger Mellie - along the lines of. In a pub chatting up a woman, spin round to yer mates and either thumb up - I'm in here, or you get a shallow thumb down.