New words list December 2018

List of new word entries

In addition to revised versions of Second Edition entries, these ranges contain the following new entries:

New words
New sub-entries
New senses

New word entries

adownrights, adv.

amakhosi, n.

aperitivo, n.

appassionato, n., adv., and adj.

bendy, adj.2

bunny chow, n.

burkini, n.

butterfly kick, n.

catchability, n.

catch-and-release, adj. and n.

catch colt, n.

catch dog, n.

catchlight, n.

catch pole, n.2

chemsex, n.

chode, n.

chopsy, adj.

crowd-surfer, n.

Debbie Downer, n.

decolonize, v.

deurmekaar, adj.

downbound, adj. and adv.

down-bow, n.

downburst, n.

down-by, adv.

downchange, n.

downchange, v.

downcode, v.

downconversion, n.

downconvert, v.

down-converter, n.

downcrying, n.

downcut, v.

downcutting, n.

down cycle, n.

downcycle, v.

downcycling, n.

down-date, v.

down-dating, n.

downdrift, n.

downfaulted, adj.

downfaulting, n.

downhiller, n.

downhilling, n.

downhomer, n.

downie, n.1

downiness, n.2

downing, n.

downlevel, n. and adj.

downlight, n.

downlighter, n.

downline, n.

downlist, v.

downlong, adv.

down market, n.

down North, adv.

down-page, adj.

downpouring, adj.

downpressor, n.

downregulation, n.

downrigger, n.

downscaling, n.

downsetting, n.

downshore, adv. and adj.

downsizer, n.

downtide, n.

downtide, adv.

downtoner, n.

downtread, v.

down trou, n.

downvote, n.

downvote, v.

downwarp, v.

downwarped, adj.

downwashed, adj.

downweight, v.

downy, n.3

dwaal, n.

Dylanesque, adj.

eina, int. and n.

facepalm, v.

facepalm, int. and n.

frybread, n.

geld, n.3

gilded age, n.

God-dang-it, int.

God-darn-it, int.

goldback, n.

golden-breasted, adj.

golden-eyed, adj.

golden-mantled, adj.

golden mile, n.

golden rain tree, n.

gold leaf, v.

gold-leafed, adj.

gold leafing, n.

goldly, adv.

goldness, n.

gold plate, v.

gold-plated, adj.

hammajang, adj.

hash cake, n.1

hash cake, n.2

hash code, n.

hash code, v.

Hashem, n.

hashtag, v.

hashtagged, adj.

Haskalah, n.

hassle, v.2

hassling, n.1

hassling, n.2

hassling, adj.

hassocked, adj.

hassocking, n.

hastate, n.

haterade, n.

headdesk, n. and int.

headdesk, v.

howzit, int.

ikigai, n.

imperceptively, adv.

ingcibi, n.

Islamology, n.

ja, adv.

jamette, n.

kabocha, n.

kasi, n. and adj.

kif, adj.

memory box, n.

munted, adj.

muntered, adj.

Mzansi, n.

Native America, n.

‘nduja, n.

new economy, n. and adj.

ojek, n.

parson impersonate, n.

philosophizingly, adv.

powfagged, adj.

recommendee, n.

rigwelted, adj.

sarmie, n.

satang, n.

Satanian, adj. and n.

Satanite, n. and adj.

satcaster, n.

satchel-mouth, n.

satinizing, n.

sational, comb. form

sausage fest, n.

sausage party, n.

shone, adv. and adj.

skedonk, n.

slimeball, n.

spaza, n.

spoggy, n.

St Giles, n.

Tatiesque, adj.

TGIF, int. and adj.

toyi-toyi, n.

toyi-toyi, v.

tribbing, n.

ubuntu, n.

upzone, v.

voetstoots, adv. and adj.

white gold, n.1

Wrekin, n.

New sub-entries

up to one’s ass in alligators

bandolier bag

big lunch

biological imperative

blast from the past

blood quantum

with one’s bum in the butter

catch limit

catch quota

to catch sight of

to catch it

to be caught short

catch you later

to catch feelings

catch-fart

catch fene

catch-guinea

catch honours

catch pin

catch plate

catch rope

catcher’s mitt

catch-up television

catch-water meadow

catchily

cloud inversion

council pop

—— and counting

DVLA

to rattle one’s dags

dissociative identity disorder

district surgeon

down button

down dog

downforce

to down upon

down yonder

to kick a man when he is down

to be down to

down below

down there

to be down in the back

one down, one to go

down cold

to give (a person) down the banks

to give a person down the country

to send a person down the road

downcourt

down-curved

downgraded

downhill all the way

downplaying

downrange distance

downward dog

downy birch

to catch a person’s drift

economic cycle

festival-goer

fish camp

to get wrong

ghillie suit

gilded cage

to the gills

gill flap

gill membrane

gill-bells

gill netting

gilt-lettered

gilthead bream

to make a gold

to strike gold

to go for gold

gold-framed

gold-tasselled

gold-toothed

gold bar

gold beryl

gold braid

gold braided

gold-bright

gold certificate

gold coin

gold commissioner

gold drop

gold escort

gold farmer

gold farming

gold-filled

gold filling

gold flux

Gold Glove

gold-hearted

gold licence

gold mania

gold master

gold panning

gold pass

gold piece

gold prospecting

gold reef

goldeye

gold law

not to give a goldarn

Goldbach number

Goldbach partition

golden-skinned

golden-spangled

golden-tinted

Golden Boot

golden calf

golden earth

golden egg

golden fibre

golden generation

Golden Globe

Golden Gloves

golden goodbye

golden goose

golden head

golden hour

golden knop

golden leaf

golden line

golden master

golden set

golden touch

golden verse

golden west

golden years

golden ratio

golden-cheeked warbler

golden eagle

golden beetle

golden hamster

golden jackal

golden Labrador

golden monkey

golden toad

golden drop

golden-locks

golden tuft

golden withy

goldenrod paper

gold rusher

goldsinny wrasse

gold-winged woodpecker

gumboot dance

hash algorithm

hash function

hash value

hash head

hash oil

hash pipe

hashed browns

hashtagging

hassle-free

in haste

haste ye back

hasted

hasty-tempered

identified

imperfect information

imperfect metal

imperfect rhyme

index case

index patient

Japanese pumpkin

Jill of all trades

leopard print

little lunch

MDF

black over Bill’s mother’s

new normal

office hours

on-reservation

Oriental studies

papal knight

papal knighthood

perfect information

pipe ceremony

potato pen

prairie chicken dance

preterite imperfect

public-facing

get behind me Satan

satanic mills

satanic panic

Satanic verses

satay stick

satay sauce

satedly

satellite aerodrome

satellite cell

satellite colony

satellite dish

satellite feed

satellite link

satellite male

satellite radio

satellite surveillance

satellite TV

satiety index

satin chrome

satin glass

satin flycatcher

serve-and-volleyer

shackland

to fuck spiders

spotted skunk

to drain the swamp

tickey box

traditional healer

tribal nation

wheat beer

Wine of Origin

New senses

bare, adj., adv., and n.

catch, n.2

catch, v.

catch-all, n. and adj.

catch basin, n.

catch crop, n.

catcher, n.

catch-hold, n. and adj.

catching up, n.

catchline, n.

catchment, n.

catch reservoir, n.

catch title, n.

catch-up, n. and adj.

catchword, n.

catchy, adj.

cobble, v.2

down, adj.

down, v.1

down, v.2

down, adv.

down along, adv., n., and adj.

down and out, adv., n., and adj.

downcast, adj. and n.2

downcast, v.

downcoming, adj.

downdraught, n. and adj.

down east, n., adv., and adj.

downer, n.

downfaced, adj.

downfall, n.

downfallen, adj.

downfolded, adj.

downgrade, v.

downgrade, adv., n., and adj.

downgrading, n.

downhill, adv., adj., and n.

downhole, n., adj., and adv.

download, n.

download, v.

downloaded, adj.

downloader, n.

downloading, n.

downplay, v.

downpour, v.

down-puller, n.

downpulling, n.

downrange, adj. and adv.

downriver, adv. and adj.

downscale, v.

downscale, adv. and adj.

downshift, v.

downshifter, n.

downshifting, n.

downside, n., adv., and adj.

downside up, adv. and adj.

downsize, v.

downsizing, n.

Downsman, n.

down South, adv. and adj.

downstairs, adv., adj., and n.

downstream, adv., adj., and n.

downstroke, n.

downtempo, adj. and n.

down the line, adv., adj., and n.

downtown, adv., adj., and n.

downturn, n.

downturn, v.

downturned, adj.

downward, adv., adj., and prep.

downwards, adv. and adj.

downwash, n.

downweigh, v.

downwith, adv., adj., prep., n.

downy, n.2

ducker, n.1

gelded, adj.

Gila, n.

gill, n.3

gillnet, v.

gill plate, n.

gola, n.1

gold, n.1 and adj.

goldarn, adj., n., and adv.

goldarned, adj. and adv.

gold-brick, v.

gold-bricking, n.

gold bronze, n. and adj.

gold bullion, n.

Gold Coast, n.

gold cup, n.

gold dust, n.

golden, adj. and n.

golden ager, n.

golden apple, n.

golden-crested, adj.

golden-crowned, adj.

goldeney, n.

golden-headed, adj.

golden oak, n. and adj.

goldenrod, n. and adj.

golden-rumped, adj.

golden shower, n.

golden-winged, adj.

goldfish, n.

goldie, n.

gold lily, n.

goldmine, n. and adj.

gold plate, n.

gold plating, n.

gold rush, n.

goldsmithy, n.

gold standard, n.

gold-weight, n.

gold working, n.

hash, n.1

hash, v.

hashed, adj.

hash-up, n.

hashy, adj.

Hasidic, adj. and n.

haslet, n.

hassle, n.

hassock, v.

hasty, adj., adv., and n.

how, adv. and n.3

imperfect, adj. and n.

impersonization, n.

inferno, n.

jill, n.

muggler, n.

niche, n. and adj.

non-native, adj. and n.

old gold, n. and adj.

pauchle, n.

perfect, adj., n., and adv.

performant, n. and adj.

ping, v.2

ping, int. and n.

pisculent, adj.

princeps, n. and adj.

psychoactivity, n.

redface, n.

roach, n.3

Satanas, n.

satanic, adj.

Satanist, n. and adj.

satanize, v.

satanship, n.

satchel, v.

sateen, n. and adj.

satellite, n.

satellited, adj.

satellite station, n.

satellitium, n.

satellitosis, n.

satelloid, n.

satiné, adj. and n.

satin flower, n.

satnav, n.

sausage, n.

scissoring, n.

traditional, adj. and n.

whitey, n

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December 2018, OED Updates