Friday, October 8, 2010

New Additions To The Oxford Dictionary

Ever since I have been here, I have been hearing, how the words that we studied for the GRE exam are hardly ever used in our day to day life. And a lot of good natured grumbling later, the Oxford Dictionary was approached to add these following day to day word/phrase usages.

1.

Manmohaned - Feeling out of place.

Example- The party was not my type at all. I was so Manmohaned.

2.

Doing a butt (pun unintended) - talking absolute nonsense.

Example - He had no clue what he was talking about. He was just doing a butt.

3.

Being a Paris - Good for nothing

Example - You absolute Paris! Get your backside off the couch!

4.

Padukone - Long but beautiful

Example - The play was such a Padukone! But I wish it had gone on longer.

5.

Lohaned - Busted

Example- To be used in a cops and robbers game. "You have been Lohaned".

6.

Amired/ Asifed - See Lohaned above

Note - Shoaibed can also be used, but I believe that is already a recognised word.

7.

Kalmadi - Cheat/ Thief (A very highly used words these days)

Example - That is my pen, you Kalmadi! Give it back right now!

8.

Saniaing - Showing great potential, but without result

Example - There you go. The Arsenal team is Saniaing again.

9.

Sainaing - Opposite of above

10.

Gangulying - Showing extreme levels of passion

Example - MS Dhoni to Harbhajan Singh - That's enough Gangulying for now. Bowl properly!

I shall see if these are accepted before proceeding with more recommendations.