12 English neologisms you'll want to use

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Some new words are becoming so popular that they are firmly embedded in the language of everyday communication. Alexey Shchetkin from the American British Center has collected 12 capacious and funny English neologisms, which have every chance to take root in the Russian language.

English is considered to be the most dynamically developing language in the world. It is in English that a large number of neologisms are born every day - new words designed to concisely and concisely designate the changed concepts or phenomena of our life.

Most neologisms disappear as quickly as they appeared. But some of the new words eventually become fixed in the language and become an integral part of it. By the way, once "bitcoins" and "selfies" were also little-known neologisms.

The selection contains words that are still little known on the Runet, but have already gained popularity in the English-speaking segment of the Web and even got offline. Ready? Ok, let’s go!

1. Bedgazm

This is the pleasure that a person experiences when they finally get to the couch or bed after a hard day. Sometimes you can just fall out of reality and lie like that for 20-30 minutes with your jeans lowered in complete oblivion … Was this with you?

2. Chairdrobe

Chairdrobe is the very case when a chair becomes both a hanger and a wardrobe, thus losing its original function: it will no longer work to sit on it.

3. Masturdating

This means going to the cinema, restaurant or cafe alone - a kind of date with yourself. You can suffer from loneliness, but you can enjoy it.

4. Afterclap

Afterclap is the kind of person who still claps his hands when everyone has stopped. And we're not just talking about the theater right now, don't we?

5. Askhole

It is formed from the English ask ("to ask") and the rude word asshole, meaning a very bad person. The hybrid is proposed to be used to name someone who always asks tactless, unpleasant or downright stupid questions.

6. Cellfish

This is a person who continues to talk on his cell phone, not paying attention to the fact that it annoys everyone else. Probably, many have found themselves in a similar situation in a minibus: everyone is driving calmly, but then a colorful-looking woman (although it is not at all necessary, maybe a man) answers the call and begins to lively discuss with her friend yesterday's deuce of the youngest son, what preparations to make for the winter and much more. It's lucky if you have headphones with you.

7. Textrovert

So you can call someone who prefers correspondence to any other form of communication. This is usually the fault of programmers and system administrators: in most cases, they would rather send a message than call or meet. There are exceptions, though. By the way, this word also has every chance to take root: it is capacious and reflects today's realities.

8. Errorist

This is a person who constantly makes mistakes. Everywhere. The word is very biting, bright, capacious, short, and most importantly - international and understandable.

9. Textpectation

The very moment when we wrote a message to someone and are eagerly awaiting an answer, nervously glancing at the screen of the mobile phone.

10. Dudevorce

Let's call it “friendship-format divorce”. When two friends are not officially friends anymore. The phrase is a combination of the slang word dude and the word divorce.

11. Beerboarding

Beerboarding - ferrying out the secrets of colleagues and partners by soldering them.

12. Destinesia

This is such amnesia upon arrival at the destination. For example, you come to the kitchen and cannot remember why you came here at all. For such a situation, the neologism destinesia was invented in English.