From a bachelor’s handbag to the spicy cough, Macquarie Dictionary’s newest edition captures the current thoughts, feeling and preoccupations of Australians.
How would you put the past three years into words? According to the Macquarie Dictionary, phrases like “Barbiecore”, “goblin mode” and “spicy cough” are a pretty apt summary. These playful turns of phrase are among the 3000 new words added to the dictionary’s ninth edition.
“Barbiecore”, “goblin mode” and “spicy cough” are a pretty apt summary of the last three years, according to the Macquarie Dictionary. “This edition has been quite distinct with the pandemic and other social trends that people are following. The role of the dictionary is to simply present language as it is currently being used in Australian English,” she says.
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