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: what word originated in your year of birth?


urrh
12-21-2013, 08:42 PM
OED birthday word generator: which words originated in your birth year? | OxfordWords blog (http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/12/oed-birthday-words/)
I suspect many of you are youngsters, so bring on your fancy interwebs and gadetery nic nacs.
The word from my birthday is "wheel."
Jk, it's "air guitar"

HonestTea
12-21-2013, 09:10 PM
Your OED birthday word is: "beatbox"

MG1
12-21-2013, 09:12 PM
Sorry, couldn't read the link. Damn iPhone screen is too small. I'll check out link when I get home.

Bouncing Bettys
12-21-2013, 09:21 PM
Chillpill....gf's is Geeksville. Yeah i'm robbing the cradle.

MasonJar
12-21-2013, 09:24 PM
foodie!

Hondaracer
12-21-2013, 09:51 PM
Channel surf lol
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SpeedStars
12-21-2013, 10:00 PM
Scratchiti...:derp:
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Eatman
12-21-2013, 10:00 PM
shopaholic

murd0c
12-21-2013, 10:05 PM
downloadable

nekthx
12-22-2013, 12:05 AM
crowd-surfing

yogenfruz
12-22-2013, 01:44 AM
"Poptastic"....

MeowMeow
12-22-2013, 01:45 AM
Nu skool

Wtf?

!oHenry
12-22-2013, 02:38 AM
1989
Your OED birthday word is:
crowd-surfing, n.
Meaning: The action of lying flat while being passed over the heads of members of the audience at a rock concert, typically after jumping into the audience from the stage. Cf. stage-diving n. at stage n. Additions.

Infiniti
12-22-2013, 03:05 AM
air guitar

mb_
12-22-2013, 04:02 AM
Poptastic :lawl:
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flagella
12-22-2013, 07:40 AM
wife's is gobsmacked

adj.
Meaning: Flabbergasted, astounded; speechless or incoherent with amazement.

68style
12-22-2013, 08:33 AM
Mine is "gazillion" :ahwow:

I bet MG1's is "colour television" hahaha

jeedee
12-22-2013, 08:37 AM
Dadrock :derp:

jtrinh
12-22-2013, 08:53 AM
Emoticon :nyan:

radioman
12-22-2013, 09:06 AM
Emoticon :nyan:

emoticon :D

Lomac
12-22-2013, 09:20 AM
downloadable

Same

We be old. :okay:

kunoman1
12-22-2013, 09:34 AM
Never even heard of dadrock ..
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kunoman1
12-22-2013, 09:38 AM
Emoticon :nyan:

:lawl: I thought it said emotion..was so confused about how old you would have to be
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Kaolinite
12-22-2013, 09:43 AM
Emoticon as well haha

Zedbra
12-22-2013, 10:00 AM
Same

We be old. :okay:

Mine was: internet :okay:

nabs
12-22-2013, 10:55 AM
channel surf, v.

Qmx323
12-22-2013, 11:24 AM
emoticon :D

emoticon

:ilied:

dangonay
12-22-2013, 12:23 PM
Cyberculture. Are you kidding me? They had that word in the 60's?
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meme405
12-22-2013, 01:48 PM
Nu skool

Wtf?

Mine too. Lame.

LSF22
12-22-2013, 01:48 PM
where all you other "bazillionaires" at :willnill:

bensta
12-22-2013, 02:41 PM
1987
Your OED birthday word is:
bazillionaire, n.
Meaning: A person of enormous wealth.

j.f0ng
12-22-2013, 02:47 PM
Your OED birthday word is:
geeksville, n.
Meaning: A place or state characterized by geekiness.

:fulloffuck:

FOREVER
12-22-2013, 04:12 PM
Your OED birthday word is:
Dadrock, n.
Meaning: Rock music that appeals to an older generation, or is heavily influenced by that of an earlier era, esp. the 1960s. Also: rock music performed or recorded by male musicians who have had a relatively long career.


:derp:

Cillu
12-23-2013, 03:27 AM
Best way to find out other peoples' ages. Mine is poptastic btw.

dlo
12-23-2013, 04:57 AM
Geeksville LOLWOT
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hirevtuner
12-23-2013, 05:50 AM
chill pill is mine
only have it til 2004, i think 2013 might be twerking :lawl:

Tegra_Devil
12-23-2013, 07:52 AM
wife's is gobsmacked

adj.
Meaning: Flabbergasted, astounded; speechless or incoherent with amazement.

same

sonick
12-23-2013, 08:07 AM
same

Yay team '85 :eek5r:

sleepywheel
12-23-2013, 09:52 PM
artificial intelligence :suspicious:

Yodamaster
12-23-2013, 11:38 PM
geeksville

K.Dubz
12-25-2013, 12:45 AM
bazillionaire, niceeee

JSALES
12-25-2013, 04:08 PM
Emoticon :)

Zheff
12-25-2013, 04:17 PM
Air Guitar

MG1
12-25-2013, 06:16 PM
so, what's 1954?


I don't want to register.........

Zedbra
12-25-2013, 06:25 PM
so, what's 1954?


I don't want to register.........

I didn't have to register. Anyways:
1954
Nowheresville, n.
Meaning: A largely unknown or uninteresting place, esp. a small, rural town; (also fig.) obscurity, insignificance, limbo.

MG1
12-25-2013, 06:27 PM
^Funny........ I use the word often.

Where Lomac lives is nowheresville........... now coined buttfuck nowhere.

?uestlove
12-28-2013, 02:55 PM
mine was: bukkake

Graeme S
12-29-2013, 06:43 PM
Foodie.