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Words of 2009: Jeggings, phantonyms and tweetups
Countdown word expert Susie Dent today revealed her words of 2009.
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Here is her list:
* Bossnapping - noun: (in France) The prevention of senior managers from leaving company premises for a period of time by their employees, in order to protest about large-scale redundancies and cutbacks.
* Zombie bank - noun: A financial institution whose liabilities are greater than its assets, but which continues to operate because of government support.
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* Geoengineering/ecohacking - noun: The deliberate large-scale manipulation of an environmental process that affects the earth's climate, in an attempt to counteract the effects of global warming.
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* Jeggings - plural noun: Close-fitting leggings made of fabric that resembles denim in appearance (from jeans + leggings).
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* Minute mentoring - noun: A system of advising aspiring professionals based on the format of speed-dating.
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* Phantonym - noun: A word that looks as it if means one thing but in fact means something quite different (from phantom + antonym).
* Tweetup - noun: A meeting or other gathering organised by means of posts on the social networking service Twitter.
* Staycation - noun: A holiday spent in one's home country rather than abroad, or one spent at home and involving day trips to local attractions
* Simples - exclamation: Used to say that something is very easy to achieve (from the "compare the meerkat" TV advert).
* Great Recession - noun: Term for the current recession, modelled on the Great Depression.
* Hashtag - noun: A (hash) sign added to a word or phrase that enables Twitter users to search for tweets (postings on the Twitter site) that contain similarly tagged items and view thematic sets.
* Freemium - noun: A business model in which some basic services are provided for free, with the aim of enticing users to pay for additional, premium features or content.
* Paywall - noun: A way of blocking access to a part of a website which is only available to paying subscribers.
* Unfriend/defriend - verb: To remove from one's "friends" list (eg on a social networking website)
* Tag cloud - noun: A visual depiction of the word content of a website, or of user-generated tags attached to online content, typically using colour and font size to represent the prominence or frequency of the words or tags depicted.
* Slashdot effect - noun: The slowing down or crashing of a small website due to a huge increase in traffic when the website is linked to another, much more popular one.
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