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Announcing the Macquarie Dictionary Committee’s Choice and People’s Choice Word of the Year 2023. You can review the final shortlist here (and for those interested, the longlist here). Thank you for helping us decide the defining new word for 2023! Committee’s Choice Word of the Year 2023 “Although cozzie livs was coined in the UK, it has resonated soundly with Australians, … Read more
The Macquarie Dictionary Word of the Year has a shortlist consisting of at least one word from each of our categories. Our editors have gone through to give us some insight as to what each category entails below. Arts – including literature, film, fine arts and music. Business – associated with finance and corporations. Colloquial – informal and … Read more
This week’s word of the week is the Dish. No, we aren’t prepping for dinner, we are journeying out to the New South Wales Central West to visit the famous Parkes radio telescope. Opened in 1961, the Dish is a powerful radio telescope with a sudsidiary telescope. The Dish is best known for the role … Read more
This week we are wearing shoes and socks because the word of the week is toe-biter, also known as the giant water bug. The toe-biter is a large freshwater insect that can grow up to seven centimetres long. They can breath underwater using a postier tube and are found along the eastern and northern coasts … Read more
Welcome back to another edition of the New Words blog! My favourite of the five words we’ve curated for you this month is e-changer. It refers to a remote worker who moves from a city to a rural location as part of a lifestyle change. It’s a cute play on sea changer and is very close … Read more
Online word games have taken the world by storm. You can now hone your skills with these five-letter word puzzles at any time, at any place, and more than once a day! All spellings are from Australian English.
If you’re travelling in the waters of Northern Australia make sure you avoid the snapping handbags, that is, the crocodiles. Crocodiles come in many shapes and sizes
This week’s word of the week will cost you around $150 an hour. A dunny diver is a plumber, those stalwart tradies who install and repair piping, fixtures, appliances, and appurtenances in connection with the water supply and drainage systems. Turd strangler is a more colourful name for a plumber. You laugh but from ancient Roman baths to your … Read more
We’re back with a fresh helping of new words for the start of spring! First up is a word you might have seen making the rounds recently. It’s quiet quitting: ceasing to put special effort into one’s job. We think part of its popularity must stem from the rare and lovely alliteration of Q. Of … Read more
