Macquarie WOTY nominees

[Benjamin Zimmer]

Macquarie Dictionary <http://www.macquariedictionary.com.au/> is about
to open up their WOTY voting. Lots of categories, as usual, with the
overall WOTY selected from the winners by category.

Nominees listed below -- see the Macquarie site for definitions. Not
all of these are that new -- in fact, some ("ASCII art", "buzzkill",
"noob", "groupthink", "friend with benefits", "mashup") are rather
quaintly old.


Agriculture:
biologically harvested wool
cell grazing
controlled traffic farming
green harvesting
pasture cropping
silo bag

Art, Literature, Theatre:
ASCII art
book trailer
floor talk
heist novel
poverty porn
video game art

Business:
burning platform
Dutch disease
elevator speech
mortgage stress
rumourtrage
Zimbabwe option

Colloquial:
blag
butterface
buzzkill
man crush
neg
y'mum

Communications:
data broker
digital rights management
heritage media
media punking
tweet
video journalist

Ecology:
Indian Ocean Dipole
peak phosphate
peak soil
petrichor
supervolcano
virosphere

Environment:
bushfire survival plan
geoengineering
hypermile
lighting pollution
vertical garden
water buyback

Fashion:
awareness bracelet
bodywarmer
eyebrow threading
fauxhawk
geek chic
statement lashes

Eating and Drinking:
brandade
future food
kaiseki
micro herb
saltbush lamb
truffle dog

General Interest:
cellular memory
dye bomb
flairtending
mortgage stress
staycation
wet room

Health:
biomarker
cosmetic neurology
diet patch
pandemic influenza A (H1N1)
social phobia
super clinic

Internet:
adjacking
captcha
cloud computing
crowdsourcing
noob
online memorial

Politics:
climate change believer
climate change denier
head-nodder
shield laws
shovel-ready
slacktivism

Psychology:
brain fade
cyberbully
groupthink
lipstick effect
man camp
suicidal ideation

Social Interest:
cocooning
eco-coffin
friend with benefits
grief box
Jedi religion
propositional religion

Sport:
caster board
equestrian vaulting
glass-off
pond swooping
roar factor
streetball

Technology:
internet anonymiser
mashup
netbook
off-by-one error
recommender system
ubiquitous computing



--Ben Zimmer

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