Pity him, poor man has a brainfart

28 August 2015 - 09:35 By Reuters

Feeling hangry? Can't find a seat on the subway because of manspreading? Annoyed by people butt-dialing you? All three slang words officially joined OxfordDictionaries.com yesterday in a quarterly update of popular phrases that also included Grexit (a potential Greek exit from the eurozone) and brainfart (a momentary mental lapse).Manspreading was coined to describe men who take up extra room on public transport by sitting with their legs wide apart.Last year, New York City transport authorities launched a poster campaign on the subway in a bid to discourage it.Hangry is defined as a bad mood brought on by hunger, while butt-dialing is a term for inadvertently calling someone on a cellphone placed in a rear pocket.The free online dictionary by the creators of the Oxford English Dictionary also added the adjective awesomesauce to describe something particularly excellent, and manic pixie dream girl, which describes a quirky appealing female movie character.Other new terms included wine o'clock and beer o'clock - the appropriate time of day to start drinking, fangirl - a fervent female comic book fan, and Ragequit - angrily abandoning a video game...

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