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)
