# Awesome Newer Words

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-newer-words/980305>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 24, 2023, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-newer-words/980305 "2023-02-24T16:20:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2023, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-newer-words/980305/1 "2023-02-24T16:20:18Z")

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I really enjoyed this list of rarer words that describe pandemic emotions. I think most of us want snerdles in our hibernate when feeling crambazzled.

> **[Feeling crambazzled? A linguist shares words from the past that are fitting...](https://www.cbc.ca/radio/sunday/susie-dent-words-1.6710962)**
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> You might not know you are feeling crambazzled or that you have a case of the mubble-fubbles, but self-described linguistic magpie Susie Dent says putting a word to your feelings will actually help.

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**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2023, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-newer-words/980305/2 "2023-02-24T17:24:15Z")

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Say what you wish. all of them are better than “goblin mode”, which I never actually heard anyone use.

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**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2023, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-newer-words/980305/3 "2023-02-24T18:46:31Z")

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> [@Dr\_Paprika](#):
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> all of them are better than “goblin mode”, which I never actually heard anyone use.

I remember hearing that term was the 2022 Word of the Year or something, but I had to google its meaning since I forgot…

> **['Goblin Mode' Is Oxford's 2022 Word of the Year](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/goblin-mode-selected-as-oxfords-2022-word-of-the-year-180981245/)**
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> The term describes behavior that's "unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly or greedy"

Oh yeah, so… the mode I’ve been in since the start of the pandemic lockdown, basically.

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**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2023, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-newer-words/980305/4 "2023-02-25T03:51:24Z")

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Me too, and I’ve said it to myself a time or two