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Monday, September 12, 2016

OED welcomes moobs, gender-fluid and yolo

Scrumdiddlyumptious and other Roald Dahl language also included in dictionary to celebrate centenary of his birth

Moobs, gender-fluid and yolo are among more than 1,000 words and terms added to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED).

Moobs, a term for unusually prominent breasts on a man; gender-fluid, describing a person who does not identify with a single fixed gender; and yolo, the acronym for the phrase “you only live once”, made the cut in the OED’s quarterly update.

Related: The gender-fluid generation: young people on being male, female or non-binary | Sarah Marsh and Guardian readers

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