So 'Rizz' is word of the year

axisus

I'm the wrong side of 30 so I've never heard of it. 

Apparently Rizz is: is defined as style, charm, or attractiveness, and the ability to attract a romantic or sexual partner. 


The other shortlisted words were:

Beige flag (n.): a character trait that indicates that a partner or potential partner is boring or lacks originality; (also) a trait or habit, esp. of a partner or potential partner, viewed as extremely characteristic, but not distinctly good or bad [draft definition]

Situationship (n.): a romantic or sexual relationship that is not considered to be formal or established.

Parasocial (adj.): designating a relationship characterized by the one-sided, unreciprocated sense of intimacy felt by a viewer, fan, or follower for a well-known or prominent figure (typically a media celebrity), in which the follower or fan comes to feel (falsely) that they know the celebrity as a friend.

Heat dome (n.): a persistent high-pressure weather system over a particular geographic area, which traps a mass of hot air below it [draft definition]

Swiftie (n.): an enthusiastic fan of the singer Taylor Swift [draft definition]

Prompt (n.): an instruction given to an artificial intelligence program, algorithm, etc., which determines or influences the content it generates [draft definition]

De-influencing (n.): the practice of discouraging people from buying particular products, or of encouraging people to reduce their consumption of material goods, esp. via social media [draft definition]

I'm not quite sure how 'word of the year' includes things that are clearly two words together?


I have a nomination for the worst word of the year, I bloody hate it! - Poonami. Keeps turning up on some crappy Nappy ad on TV. If I was still buying them I would boycott that brand on principle. Grumpy old man ....

drofluf

I usually learn the word of the year teh day the winner is announced.

mrkb

Isnt it just a shortened/slang version of Charisma?

bobacco

What’s the word of the year for grownups?

scrumhalf

And still there is no word for the disappointment you feel when someone else takes the last biscuit from the pack/plate. 

DefaultM

bobacco said:

What’s the word of the year for grownups?

Jizz

EricTheWeary

Poonami sounds too much like punani which could lead to some unpleasant confusion. 
I think the Guide Dogs For The Blind use of pupdates is still the worst. 

merlin

I've known and used the word "beige" as an adjective for decades. To me it always meant "conventional". I'm happy the meaning hasn't really changed. 

Riz is a new one on me. I like the "charisma" explanation. 

Current word of the nano-second for grown-ups must be "nups". Also implies that they're married. 

Philtre

Musk (n.): A destructive entity harming humankind and the planet.

bertie

axisus said:

I'm not quite sure how 'word of the year' includes things that are clearly two words together?
....

 portmanteau   ? 

breakstuff

bobacco said:

What’s the word of the year for grownups?

Indifference?

GoFish

I don't believe in words coined by desperate juniors at ad agencies - so no simples, poonami, fantasilicious or whatever porrtmanteau is coined to sell more crap. 

Luckily I don't work in advertising so I won't nominate the craptastic "unfeelfullment" for the last biscuit disappointment.

I do love new words or phrases that bubble up from actual conversation or partmanteaus that are funny, so I'm not a total grouch.

I thought that parasocial, swiftie and prompt had been around for ages - I must skew young

I'm a riot at the OED's annual tombola.

Offset

I too had never heard of it until today.  And I won't be deploying it any time soon either because it would make a 63 year-old me sound like an utter twat.

Who comes up with this shite?!

thecolourbox

GoFish said:

I don't believe in words coined by desperate juniors at ad agencies - so no simples, poonami, fantasilicious or whatever porrtmanteau is coined to sell more crap. 

Luckily I don't work in advertising so I won't nominate the craptastic "unfeelfullment" for the last biscuit disappointment.

I do love new words or phrases that bubble up from actual conversation or partmanteaus that are funny, so I'm not a total grouch.

I thought that parasocial, swiftie and prompt had been around for ages - I must skew young

I'm a riot at the OED's annual tombola.

It's not necessarily about new words (for example poonami is not a new one at all, been used for ages) it's about words that have had their moment this year. I don't think heat dome is a new one either

Philly_Q

EricTheWeary said:

Poonami sounds too much like punani which could lead to some unpleasant confusion. 

And some unpleasant music.

 

Philly_Q

Surely Prompt in an IT/computing context is nothing new, even if we're now talking about AI?

And as for Swiftie, it's just a nickname for fans of an artist, that's not a proper word.  I'm not a Scorpionsie or a Wingerie.

HerrMetal

Philly_Q said:

Surely Prompt in an IT/computing context is nothing new, even if we're now talking about AI?

And as for Swiftie, it's just a nickname for fans of an artist, that's not a proper word.  I'm not a Scorpionsie or a Wingerie.

I've been told I can be quite Rattie at times.

the_jaffa

Poonami has been around for ages amongst parents of new children.

WezV

I remember using Poonami a lot when my kids were young and it was a fitting description of the mess I had to deal with. My eldest is 11 now, so it's definitely not a new thing

We had "Code Brown" for a shitty nappy, and "Poonami" for one that had leaked

VimFuego

poonami is a term used in healthcare to describe the flow and volume of bodily waste from when a Nanna has been down on the floor for an extended period of time. One never forgets one's first poonami!!!

Kittyfrisk

Huh? It's not a new word & they can't spell it properly either...