Yogalates, the trend of combining Pilates exercises with the postures and breathing techniques of Yoga, is among 1,200 new entries unveiled on Monday in the latest edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED).
As September marks the centenary of the birth of British author and screenwriter Roald Dahl, the edition also contains a range of revised and newly-drafted entries connected to Dahl and his writing.
“Revised entries in this range include those for words which many of us encountered for the first time in his books for children such as the adjectives frightsome, scrummy, scrumptious, splendiferous and splendiferousness,” said Jonathan Dent, senior assistant editor of the OED.
“This quarter’s update strays into other fictional worlds and beams down a new entry for the science-fiction sense of transporter (along with the fuller matter transporter and the abbreviated transmat),” he adds.
Other unusual entries include moobs, used to describe unusually prominent breasts on a man, typically as a result of excess fat, and gender-fluid, which refers to a person who doesn’t identify with a single fixed gender.
Further to a number of food-related terms — including the Malaysian or Indonesian dish, rendang — social media expressions have also made an appearance.