User:LunaEatsTuna/words of the year

User:Ioaxxere suggested the idea for a Word of the Year—a common tradition among online dictionaries—in the Beer Parlour on 3 November 2023. Ioaxxere contended that the choices of most dictionaries were undesirable and lacking, quipping "I think the dictionary world needs some people who can take this job seriously." They elaborated the following day that they would open a vote in which any user could vote and nominate candidate words, with the winner being featured on the main page "around late December to early January." The vote was created on 5 November and commenced between 12 November and 11 December.
 * Context

Several users were opposed to the idea for varying reasons; while some were fond of the concept, many agreed that the idea was proposed far too late into the year. Others thought that the choice of nominations from users was poor or of an uninteresting (generic) nature. Thus, the vote for the concept failed, with 20 votes against. Earlier, on 21 November, I commented in the vote and proposed that there be multiple categories instead of a Word fo the Year. Being quite late into the year for such a proposal, however, I just created this personal userpage instead on 22 November.

Special thanks to the users Vuccala, Soap and Ioaxxere for their support with this silly project!

On 30 January 2024, Ioaxxere made a formal draft proposal for 2024's Word(s) of the Year in order to better plan ahead: see here for that year's nominations page.


 * Words of the Year

You can freely edit any entries if you want BTW

If admin: Pls do not ban me for misuse of the sandbox page

Voting: To vote for an entry simply add your signature to the bottom of it with a  so I do not have to manually count it because I am lazy. Also one can vote for as many nominations as one wants because why not

Also, this is just for fun! There will be no further action taken outside of this userpage once voting concludes on 1 January 2024.

Words of the year

 * cook
 * rizz
 * generative
 * enshittification

Noun of the year

 * almond mom – Popularised on TikTok it spread elsewhere; helped raise awareness for the mental health of, and difficulties faced by, children of almond moms.
 * body count – Popularised on TikTok it spread elsewhere and entered general youth parlance as one of their most prominent words of 2023.
 * canon event ("an unavoidable, unchangeable event that defines a person") – Arising as an Internet meme from , it became a popular word in its own right as Internet slang.
 * LunaEatsTuna (talk) 22:54, 30 November 2023 (UTC)


 * lazy girl job (WP: lazy girl job) – Coined and popularised to raise awareness against toxic workplace culture.
 * menty b – Continued growing in popularity throughout 2023 as a way to normalise discourse around nervous breakdowns.
 * mpox – Formerly known as monkeypox, mpox was as a major health concern in the first half of the year.
 * nepo baby – Popularised on TikTok chiefly to describe the growing trend of inauthentic users on social media who are covertly industry plants.
 * rizz – Its popularity reached the status of general slang by 2023, becoming one of the most prominent words of this year.
 * LunaEatsTuna (talk) 22:54, 30 November 2023 (UTC)


 * situationship – A growing trend, usage of the word heavily increased in 2023, especially on dating apps.
 * toot – Many users left in favour of  following  the previous year.
 * skeet – a post on the Bluesky social media platform
 * prompt
 * beige flag

Verb of the year

 * bussin'
 * fell off
 * LunaEatsTuna (talk) 22:54, 30 November 2023 (UTC)


 * hallucinate
 * quiet quit
 * LunaEatsTuna (talk) 22:54, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Vuccᴀʟᴀ (talk) 20:26, 25 December 2023 (UTC)


 * toss up
 * touch grass
 * Vuccᴀʟᴀ (talk) 20:26, 25 December 2023 (UTC)


 * understood the assignment
 * unionize
 * ate ("he/she ate")
 * cook ("let him cook")
 * fuck around and find out

Adjective of the year

 * cheugy
 * generative
 * LunaEatsTuna (talk) 22:54, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Vuccᴀʟᴀ (talk) 20:26, 25 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Joever
 * LunaEatsTuna (talk) 22:54, 30 November 2023 (UTC)


 * le dollar bean
 * Sunakite

Proper noun of the year

 * Barbenheimer
 * LunaEatsTuna (talk) 22:54, 30 November 2023 (UTC)


 * Freddy – was the longest-lasting tropical cyclone on record
 * Gaza
 * Gell-Mann Amnesia effect
 * gyatt
 * LunaEatsTuna (talk) 22:54, 30 November 2023 (UTC)


 * Kraken variant – Variant of COVID seen in early 2023.

Initialism or abbreviation of the year

 * AI
 * LunaEatsTuna (talk) 22:54, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Vuccᴀʟᴀ (talk) 20:26, 25 December 2023 (UTC)


 * fr/frfr – Popularised this year on instant messaging applications.
 * LunaEatsTuna (talk) 22:54, 30 November 2023 (UTC)


 * IJBOL – Reported in 2023 to ostensibly be replacing LOL and LMAO among young people on social media.
 * NPC – TikTok and YouTube NPC streams were popular in 2023. If you do not know what that means you will not vote for this entry anyways so no need for me to elaborate.
 * POV – TikTok POV videos; ibid.
 * GOAT
 * TERF
 * LunaEatsTuna (talk) 22:54, 30 November 2023 (UTC)


 * ULEZ – Dominated British politics in 2023.
 * IYKYK

Metaphor of the year

 * altered someone's brain chemistry (to have a profound impact on someone)
 * caught in 4K (caught in the act)
 * double it and give it to the next person (used to show that the speaker dreads the task in question)
 * let someone cook (from "let him cook"; allow someone to freely do something that they are good at)
 * LunaEatsTuna (talk) 22:54, 30 November 2023 (UTC)


 * MrBeastification
 * LunaEatsTuna (talk) 22:54, 30 November 2023 (UTC)


 * touch grass
 * understood the assignment
 * Vuccᴀʟᴀ (talk) 20:26, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

Suffix of the year

 * -core (seen in Barbiecore; balletcore)
 * -flation (in reality, inflation: seen in excuseflation; tipflation; shrinkflation)
 * LunaEatsTuna (talk) 22:54, 30 November 2023 (UTC)


 * -ification (seen in enshittification; MrBeastification; TikTokification)
 * LunaEatsTuna (talk) 22:54, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Vuccᴀʟᴀ (talk) 20:26, 25 December 2023 (UTC)


 * -ite
 * -Tok
 * -ussy
 * Vuccᴀʟᴀ (talk) 20:26, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
 * — Soap — 03:27, 31 December 2023 (UTC)


 * -verse (seen in metaverse; Fediverse; Spiderverse)
 * LunaEatsTuna (talk) 22:54, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

Title of the year
I think that is what these are called
 * almond mom
 * enby
 * nepo baby
 * react Andy
 * LunaEatsTuna (talk) 22:54, 30 November 2023 (UTC)


 * rizzler
 * short king
 * Swiftie
 * TERF
 * LunaEatsTuna (talk) 22:54, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Vuccᴀʟᴀ (talk) 20:26, 25 December 2023 (UTC)


 * transmedicalist
 * worker
 * effective accelerationist
 * passenger princess
 * LinkedInfluencer
 * passport bro
 * blud
 * prompt engineer

Jocular word of the year

 * academic weapon
 * babygirlification
 * bnuuy
 * LunaEatsTuna (talk) 22:54, 30 November 2023 (UTC)


 * brain rot
 * LunaEatsTuna (talk) 22:54, 30 November 2023 (UTC)


 * enshittification
 * girl math
 * Joever
 * LunaEatsTuna (talk) 22:54, 30 November 2023 (UTC)


 * twink death
 * Vuccᴀʟᴀ (talk) 20:26, 25 December 2023 (UTC)


 * zawg / schlawg
 * tragedeigh

Political word of the Year

 * anarcho-capitalism (, President of Argentina, is the first ever anarcho-capitalist world leader)
 * LunaEatsTuna (talk) 22:54, 30 November 2023 (UTC)


 * bare minimum Monday
 * Vuccᴀʟᴀ (talk) 20:26, 25 December 2023 (UTC)


 * climate emergency
 * Vuccᴀʟᴀ (talk) 20:26, 25 December 2023 (UTC)


 * copyright laundering
 * LunaEatsTuna (talk) 22:54, 30 November 2023 (UTC)


 * go woke, go broke
 * protestware
 * shrinkflation
 * Sunakite
 * tipflation

Neologism of the year

 * Barbenheimer
 * enshittification
 * excuseflation
 * lazy girl job
 * LunaEatsTuna (talk) 22:54, 30 November 2023 (UTC)


 * vibecession
 * glass child
 * Swiftonomics

Emoji of the year

 * 💀 (dying of laughter; probably overtook the usage of 😂 among the youth this year)
 * LunaEatsTuna (talk) 22:54, 30 November 2023 (UTC)


 * 👴🏻 (denotes speech that is viewed as offensive or racist)
 * 🧢 (cap (lying) / no cap)
 * Vuccᴀʟᴀ (talk) 20:26, 25 December 2023 (UTC)


 * 🪑 (laughter [largely ironic])
 * LunaEatsTuna (talk) 22:54, 30 November 2023 (UTC)


 * 🗿
 * 🤨 (raise an eyebrow; trended in 2023)
 * LunaEatsTuna (talk) 22:54, 30 November 2023 (UTC)


 * 🩷 (most popular new emoji added to Unicode in 2023)
 * 🗣️ (denotes speaking or (when used negatively) yelling)

Letter of the year

 * h (a meaningless letter added to a word or uttered when one does not know how to respond; originally programmer slang, it entered general youth parlance in 2023)
 * LunaEatsTuna (talk) 22:54, 30 November 2023 (UTC)


 * L
 * X (Twitter was renamed to X in mid-2023)

Emoji combination of the year

 * 🤓☝️ (used to suggest someone is overexplaining, a pedant or nerdy)
 * LunaEatsTuna (talk) 22:54, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Vuccᴀʟᴀ (talk) 20:26, 25 December 2023 (UTC)


 * 🔛🔝 (spells out "on top")
 * 🍷🗿 (indicates something is of high intellectual value; used humorously but with sincerity)
 * 🗣️🔥 (used humorously to suggest shouting [but used positively, in contrast to 🗣️] or "spitting fire")

Insult of the year

 * skill issue
 * touch grass
 * dogwater
 * gooner
 * soy boy
 * mid
 * wagie
 * degen
 * iPad kid

Word that died this year

 * F in the chat
 * LunaEatsTuna (talk) 22:54, 30 November 2023 (UTC)


 * goblin mode
 * LunaEatsTuna (talk) 22:54, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Vuccᴀʟᴀ (talk) 20:26, 25 December 2023 (UTC)


 * let's go, Brandon
 * lit
 * slava Ukraini (all of the Twitter users changed their usernames from the Ukrainian flag to the Palestinian or Israeli flags)
 * sussy baka
 * women ☕
 * LunaEatsTuna (talk) 22:54, 30 November 2023 (UTC)


 * amogus
 * metaverse