Are you a digital nomad? Are you rage farming right now’s hellscape? Then congratulations, you deadass helped induct these new phrases into Dictionary.com’s newest replace. 

The COVID-19 pandemic made us extra aware of people lucky sufficient to telecommute whereas dwelling the digital nomad life on the highway, and you have definitely seen folks rage farming (outlined as “the tactic of deliberately frightening political opponents”) within the problematic hellscape (“a spot or time that’s hopeless, insufferable, or irredeemable”) that’s on-line discourse right now. 

And as for deadass… it is a versatile time period that may imply “severely, utterly, genuinely, sincerely, or really; the truth is.”

These are simply 4 of the 313 new phrases, 130 new definitions and 1,140 revised definitions added to Dictionary.com’s on-line repository of language in its new revision. 

“Language is, as all the time, always altering,” stated John Kelly, senior director of editorial at Dictionary.com, in an announcement. “Our group of lexicographers is documenting and contextualizing that unstoppable swirl of the English language — not solely to assist us higher perceive our altering instances, however how the instances we dwell in change, in flip, our language.”

Different additions embody trauma dumping, petfluencer, antifragile and without end chemical substances, the latter referring to the pervasive downside of PFAS within the atmosphere. 

The pandemic has additionally helped usher in new health-related phrases like superdodger, which means “anybody who, for unverified causes, stays uninfected or asymptomatic even after repeated publicity to a contagious virus.”

The dictionary’s newest version additionally sees the addition or revision of quite a lot of phrases associated to gaming and, for some cause, bread. Paratha, anybody?

No person ever stated our language needed to be gluten-free, and I deadass suppose each our discourse and our pizza are higher for it.