New Dictionary.com entries include ‘zaddy’, ‘yeet’ and ‘snack’
Trying to keep your zaddies straight from your silver foxes and simple snacks? You don’t know what that means? Dictionary.com is here to help.
With its latest round of revisions – which last year included updated entries related to race, LGBTQ identity and mental health issues – the online vocabulary resource adds several new slang terms, asshat (“a stupid, annoying, or despicable person; asshole”) to shitshow (“a person or thing that is a complete mess, failure, or disaster”).
Ready to brush up on your baby lingo? Consider a snack – “a sexy, physically attractive person; hottie” – or, for a more mature, typically male crush, zaddy, “an attractive man who is also stylish, charming and confident”. Exhibit A: Law and order: organized crime star Christopher Meloni, who recently posed in a crop for Interview Magazine while reflecting on his own zaddy-ness: “I’ve often been called that, and who am I to argue with that? Of course I’m a zaddy.”
This should not be confused with a silver fox, which Dictionary.com now describes as “an attractive older person with gray or silver hair, especially a male.” Think of George Clooney or Richard Gere.
If you score a date with one of these characters, you might let out a yeet, or “an exclamation of enthusiasm, approval, triumph, delight, joy, etc.” Rejected? Oof – “an exclamation used to sympathize with someone else’s pain or dismay, or to express one’s own” – would be the key word.
While modern slang includes many entries, new updates also include new integers and revised definitions for technology-related terms (5G, platform); COVID-19 (long haul) and culture (DEI, cultural appropriation).
“Our dictionary’s latest update continues to reflect the world around us,” John Kelly, editor of Dictionary.com, said in a statement. “Our addition of long COVID, for example, shows the lasting impact of the pandemic; our addition of DEI and minoritization reveals our ongoing fight against racism and racial justice. 5Gcontent warning, domestic terrorism – it’s a complicated and difficult society we live in, and the language is changing to help us deal with it.”
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