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dotti34 · 06-12-2022, 06:35

In case anyone is interested, the Oxford Dictionary’s word of the year for 2022 is ‘Goblin mode’ which means (and I quote) “a type of behaviour that is unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, or greedy, typically in a way that rejects social norms or expectations”.

For those of you who don’t know what this is all about (I didn’t) and from what I have found out, it’s apparently being messy, eating junk food like it’s going out of fashion, slopping around the house in any old thing, and so on. Maybe not even worrying about having a shower. I could think of other words to describe this behaviour but they wouldn’t get to be the word of the year. Apparently the lockdowns due to COVID are being blamed for people’s Goblin mode.

06-12-2022, 06:35	#1
dotti34 Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 1,189 Blog Entries: 80 Liked: 1480 times Rep Power: 833512	Word of the Year 2022 In case anyone is interested, the Oxford Dictionary’s word of the year for 2022 is ‘Goblin mode’ which means (and I quote) “a type of behaviour that is unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, or greedy, typically in a way that rejects social norms or expectations”. For those of you who don’t know what this is all about (I didn’t) and from what I have found out, it’s apparently being messy, eating junk food like it’s going out of fashion, slopping around the house in any old thing, and so on. Maybe not even worrying about having a shower. I could think of other words to describe this behaviour but they wouldn’t get to be the word of the year. Apparently the lockdowns due to COVID are being blamed for people’s Goblin mode.