Vote on Twitter for the next word to make it into the Collins Dictionary, you adorkable duckface

Yep, that’s right, Collins is calling for your votes via Twitter to see which word should make it into the twelfth edition of its dictionary, or as it called it, the Twictionary. Among the options are words like ‘adorkable’ (“dorky in an adorable way”), ‘felfie’ (a farmer selfie), ‘duckface’ (the traditional pouting often seen in selfies) and ‘fatberg‘, which is used to describe “a large mass of solid waste, grease, etc clogging a sewage system”. Eww. Also on the list are ‘fracktivist’ (someone who protests against fracking), gaybourhood (a gay-friendly neighbourhood), and ‘vaguebooking’, which means to post deliberately vague social...



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