The English language is an ever-evolving thing, but do you rate the latest additions to the dictionary as "awesomesauce" or are you "butthurt" at the widespread acceptance of such terminology? This week, Oxford Dictionaries announced its latest additions... and we're all guilty of making some of these terms more popular than they should be. Additions to Oxford Dictionaries is separate to those of the historical Oxford English Dictionary, and are based on pop culture and Internet slang.   Some of those that made the cut this year... awesomesauce ( adjective): extremely good; excellent bants (noun): playfully teasing or mocking remarks exchanged with another person or group; banter beer o’clock (noun): an appropriate time of day for starting to drink beer brain fart (noun): a temporary mental lapse or failure to reason correctly bruh (noun): a male friend (often used as a form of address) butt dial (verb): inadvertently call (someone) on a mobile phone in one’s rear trouser pocket butthurt (adjective): overly or unjustifiably offended or resentful cakeage (noun): a charge made by a restaurant for serving a cake they have not supplied themselves fast-casual (adjective): denoting or relating to a type of high-quality self-service restaurant offering dishes that are prepared to order and more expensive than those available in a typical fast-food restaurant fat-shame (verb): cause (someone judged to be fat or overweight) to feel humiliated by making mocking or critical comments about their size fur baby (noun): a person’s dog, cat, or other furry pet animal hangry (adjective): bad-tempered or irritable as a result of hunger MacGyver (verb): make or repair (an object) in an improvised or inventive way, making use of whatever items are at hand manic pixie dream girl (noun): (especially in film) a type of female character depicted as vivacious and appealingly quirky, whose main purpose within the narrative is to inspire a greater appreciation for life in a male protagonist manspreading (noun): the practice whereby a man, especially one travelling on public transport, adopts a sitting position with his legs wide apart, in such a way as to encroach on an adjacent seat or seats meeple (noun): a small figure used as a playing piece in certain board games, having a stylized human form mic drop (noun): an instance of deliberately dropping or tossing aside one’s microphone at the end of a performance or speech one considers to have been particularly impressive microaggression (noun): a statement, action, or incident regarded as an instance of indirect, subtle, or unintentional discrimination against members of a marginalized group such as a racial or ethnic minority mkay (exclamation): non-standard spelling of OK, representing an informal pronunciation (typically used at the end of a statement to invite agreement, approval, or confirmation) Mx (noun): a title used before a person’s surname or full name by those who wish to avoid specifying their gender or by those who prefer not to identify themselves as male or female pocket dial (verb): inadvertently call (someone) on a mobile phone in one’s pocket, as a result of pressure being accidentally applied to a button or buttons on the phone rando (noun): a person one does now know, especially one regarded as odd, suspicious, or engaging in socially inappropriate behaviour weak sauce (noun): something that is of a poor or disappointing standard or quality wine o’clock (noun): an appropriate time of day for starting to drink wine   Hat Tip: Time Magazine