We're completely devo'd to see that that the world of Scrabble has obvs gone ridic with these new accepted 'words'...
Yeesh it seems that the popular boardgame is cazh-ing in on the changing vernacular of the modern era as seen by this totally dench list featuring lotsa new words.
Take a look at some of the newly accepted words and the categories that they fall into...
Slang words
Bezzy – best friend (18 points)
Cakeages – charges in a restaurant for serving cake brought in from outside (15 points)
Cakehole – mouth (17 points)
Dench – excellent (11 points)
Devo – short for devolution (8 points)
Geocache – search for hidden containers using GPS as a recreational activity (16 points)
Lolz – laughs at someone else’s or one’s own expense (13 points)
Lotsa – lots of (5 points)
Newb – newbie (9 points)
Obvs – obviously (9 points)
Onesie – one-piece garment combining a top with trousers (6 points)
Podiumed – past tense of podium, finish in the top three places in a sporting competition (14 points)
Ridic – ridiculous (8 points)
Shizzle – a form of US rap slang (18 points)
Shootie – type of shoe that covers the ankle (10 points)
Thanx – thank you (15 points)
Tuneage – music (8 points)
Twerking – type of dance involving rapid hip movement (16 points)
Vape – to inhale nicotine vapour (from an electronic cigarette) (9 points)
Wuz – non-standard spelling of was (15 points)
Technology and electronic communications
Facetime – talk with (someone) via the FaceTime application (15 points)
Hacktivist – person who hacks computer systems for political reasons (22 points)
Hashtag – a word or phrase preceded by a hashmark on Twitter, used to denote the topic of a post (14 points)
Sexting – practice of sending sexually explicit text messages (15 points)
Showrooming – practice of looking at an item in a shop, using a smartphone to compare its price elsewhere, then buying it online (20 points)
Tweep – person who uses Twitter (10 points)
Warbot – any robot or unmanned vehicle or device designed for and used in warfare (11 points)
The highest scoring new words
Cazh – casual (18 points)
Checkbox – small clickable box on a computer screen (28 points)
Cinq – number five (15 points)
Coqui – type of tree-dwelling frog (16 points)
Emoji – digital icon used in electronic communication (14 points)
Oxazole – type of liquid chemical compound (23 points)
Paczki – round filled doughnut (23 points)
Quinzhee – shelter made from hollowed-out snow (29 points)
Schvitz – to sweat (24 points)
FYI, this writer just died a little inside after typing all of those 'words'. Fo' shizzle.
(H/T The Metro)
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