Britons are pulling on budgie smugglers to go wild swimming, discussing starter marriages at stupid o'clock and sipping¹ craft beer while planning their next elimination² diet.

 

英国人去野外游泳的时候会穿上“budgie smugglers”（指男士紧身泳裤），在“stupid o'clock”（指半夜三更或接近日出之时）讨论“starter marriages”（“新手婚姻”，指双方初婚、婚姻持续时间不到五年且没有子女的婚姻），在品味“craft beer”（“精酿啤酒”，概念源于美国，区别于大部分常见工业啤酒的小众啤酒）的同时规划他们的“elimination diet”计划（“食物排除疗法”，即将能导致产生不良反应的食物从饮食中剔除的疗法，一般持续时间从两周到八周不等）。

 

TBH, not everyone will be bovvered by all of the 1,000 new words added to the Oxford³ English Dictionary (OED) in its latest quarterly update, which reveals current trends in the use of language.

 

Entries include air-punching - the action of thrusting a clenched⁴ fist into the air in elation⁵ or triumph - and bovver - part of the catchphrase of comedian⁶ Catherine Tate's teenage character Lauren.

 

A number of internet slang acronyms⁷ such as ROFL (rolling on the floor laughing), ICYMI (in case you missed it), TBH (to be honest), and FWIW (for what it's worth) also make the list.

 

Budgie smugglers, an Australian term used since the 1980s to refer to close-fitting swimming trunks, are featured in the update, along with Scandi crime thrillers⁸ and wild swimming.

 

The phrase "taking candy from a baby", in which one exploits an easy opportunity, is included as well as "sister from another mister" - a term for a very close female friend first recorded in 1998.

 

Other entries include fro-yo, the short form for frozen yoghurt, dudettes - the female form of dude - and agender for designating people who do not identify themselves as a particular gender⁹.

 

Starter marriages are short-lived first marriages, often in preparation for something more long-term, while stupid o'clock is a time outside one's normal waking life.

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