The 2022 Oxford Dictionary word of the year has met its moment.
The word of the year could have been “slacker,” “layabout,” “enervated,” “slothful,”
The 2022 Oxford Dictionary word of the year has met its moment.
The word of the year could have been “slacker,” “layabout,” “enervated,” “slothful,” “indolent,” or “lazy-ass.” But those words have come and gone and served their purpose in the past. No, this year the big brains in the dictionary world searched high and low — mostly low — to determine the word of the year.
The dictionary people didn’t have to search far. And we suppose that’s the point.
After combing slacker accounts on the inter-webs and social media websites for a few minutes, the Oxford lexicon experts have determined that the word that most embodies the 2022 zeitgeist hails from this greatest generation of Millennials.
These people are “unapologetically self-indulgent,” slovenly, Zoom in their jammies, possess job titles like “Instagram influencer,” are greedy, code on the toilet, eat ice cream for breakfast, and stream bootlegged shows.
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In other words, they go “goblin mode.”
The official dictionary people define goblin mode as “a type of behavior which is unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy, typically in a way that rejects social norms or expectations.
