Referring to the use of cosmetic treatments to forestall the visible effects of aging, it’s a pun on rejuvenation: making something young again. Let’s turn from babies to aging with our third new word, prejuvenation. ‘Nepo’ is a shortening of nepotism, implying that the celebrity may have attained their status through favouritism or special treatment rather than talent, so the word can be (but isn’t necessarily) laced with derogatory force. It’s a term for a celebrity, often in the entertainment industry, who has a famous parent. Of course it no doubt describes a real phenomenon, too – but rest assured we’ll keep putting in 110%!Īnother new word that’s been around lately, especially on social media, is nepo baby. We think part of its popularity must stem from the rare and lovely alliteration of Q. It’s quiet quitting: ceasing to put special effort into one’s job. We’re back with a fresh helping of new words for the start of spring!įirst up is a word you might have seen making the rounds recently.
Over to you – do you think these words are worthy of a place in the Macquarie Dictionary? Rounding things out for this month are magnet fishing, a straightforward coinage for the novel concept of searching for metal objects in bodies of water using magnets, and toolbox talk, a pleasantly alliterative term for an informal meeting in a workplace at which matters of health and safety are discussed. If, for example, a date’s propensity to spend too much money would be a red flag for you, then all the photographs of their many different lewks posted to social media might be a yellow one.
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However, you might not be aware of lewk, which means (essentially) an especially distinctive look and is appropriately dressed in a new and unusual spelling and pronunciation (which evokes a blend of look and ooh).ĭid you know that a yellow flag on a ship indicates it’s in a state of quarantine, and that a yellow flag in motor racing warns drivers there’s a hazard on the track? Well, now a yellow flag can be anything that draws attention to a possible problem, serving as an alert for caution. You’ve almost certainly heard of the fashion-related sense of look – as in, for example, ‘a fresh summer look’. There’s a similar sort of playfulness between another of this month’s words and its etymon. But were you aware that sea change itself originates from a line in The Tempest? Nowadays, even the words Shakespeare helped coin are getting modern adaptations… It’s a cute play on sea changer and is very close in meaning to that term, except that sea changers typically move to the coast and need not be remote workers. It refers to a remote worker who moves from a city to a rural location as part of a lifestyle change. My favourite of the five words we’ve curated for you this month is e-changer. Welcome back to another edition of the New Words blog!
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