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Topic Originator: DBP
Date: Mon 5 Dec 20:49
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63857329
is this a sign of me getting old as i`ve never heard this expression once... or is it not really used up here.
given i`m on zoom/team calls all day everyday, and have 3 young adult kids, i would have thought it would have come up???
Goblin Mode:
The winning word, "goblin mode", is a slang term describing "unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy" behaviour.
It was one of three potential choices selected by Oxford lexicographers.
Thousands managed to drag themselves out of goblin mode to vote, as the phrase won by a landslide with 318,956 votes, making up 93% of the total.
So, what does goblin mode mean exactly?
According to Oxford University Press, which publishes the Oxford English Dictionary, it is a slang term often used in the expressions such as "I am in goblin mode" or "to go goblin mode".
It went on to explain it as "a type of behaviour which is unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy, typically in a way that rejects social norms or expectations".
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Topic Originator: Tad Allagash
Date: Mon 5 Dec 21:37
Isn’t that two words? I’ve never heard it either.
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Topic Originator: veteraneastender
Date: Mon 5 Dec 22:28
New to me as well - we had a Goblin Teasmade way back in the Middle Ages though !!!
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Topic Originator: Buspasspar
Date: Tue 6 Dec 08:31
LOL ^^^^^^ Can mind of them vee
We are forever shaped by the Children we once were
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Topic Originator: LochgellyAlbert
Date: Tue 6 Dec 09:40
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veteraneastender, Mon 5 Dec 22:28
New to me as well - we had a Goblin Teasmade way back in the Middle Ages though !!!
Was there not a dirty joke about the said apparatus?
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Topic Originator: Buspasspar
Date: Tue 6 Dec 09:53
teasmade460.jpg
Cant get the pic thingy to work ?
Post Edited (Tue 06 Dec 09:56)
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Topic Originator: OzPar
Date: Tue 6 Dec 11:43
This smacks of a Boaty McBoatface type wheeze. Like others, I have never heard of the term. To me, it has a Millennials/Gen Z scam written all over it...
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Topic Originator: widtink
Date: Tue 6 Dec 13:52
Admin
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Topic Originator: parak obama
Date: Tue 6 Dec 14:19
I was certain I had read, last week, that the word of the year was gaslighting
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Topic Originator: jake89
Date: Tue 6 Dec 18:19
Quote:
parak obama, Tue 6 Dec 14:19
I was certain I had read, last week, that the word of the year was gaslighting
Touche
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