If you don't know your "pookie" from your "brain rot," Newsweek has spoken to experts to learn the real Gen Alpha definitions ...

Breaking down "buds," the playful mashup of "bisexual studs" and "study buddy," on this week’s Queer Urban Dictionary.

Happy New Year, Scrolling in the Deepers! It’s 2025, which marks the official start of Generation Beta, ushering in the ...

Words that made the short list for word of the year included brat and resilience which still mean what they’ve always meant. Then there were the “new” words which included ecotarian (someone who ...

Since the dawn of time, teenagers have adapted slang for their own purposes. Depending on when you grew up and where, you ...

Gen Z colleagues are annoyed with older established employees for a number of reasons, mocking their corporate jargon on ...

Among the newly enshrined entries are phrases and words such as yarn dust, area boy, adire, Kanuri, agbero, Edo, cross-carpet ...

It would not be very demure of you to whine about Gen Z/Alpha slang like 'rizz' or 'skibidi' - these are words shaped by ...

Lake Superior State University (LSSU) has unveiled its annual 'banished words' list, following a tradition that dates back to ...

The OED’s latest update is a celebration of Nigeria’s rich linguistic and cultural diversity, featuring a new collection of ...

With the arrival of the First Fleet, the colonising British began displacing First Nations languages to install English as the official language of Australia. Almost immediately, the new inhabitants ...

The term “jagoff” is more than just an insult in Pittsburgh. Here, it holds great cultural significance. But that’s not what Pete Hegseth was trying to convey during his U.S. Senate confirmation ...