For those picturing cadging a Rizla for a roll-up cig while downing a quick drink in the pub, or giving yourself a nudge to be more you, that's so yesterday. The endless somersaulting of our ...

Its list of words in combination is particularly fruitful: a 'Yule-shard', for example, is 'an opprobrious term for someone who leaves work unfinished before Christmas or the New Year'.

So 'Youthquake' has been named 2017's Word of the Year by the Oxford English Dictionary – and people aren't that impressed. But if the OED's choice leaves you cold, Countdown's Susie Dent has ...

COUNTDOWN'S Susie Dent left fans in stitches with her VERY pointed word of the day as she's crowned "queen of shady insults". The 56-year-old appears to have thrown shade at Health Secretary Matt ...

"I was intrigued by the conversation that followed Oxford choosing the crying-with-laughter emoji as its word of the year [in 2015]," says lexicographer Susie Dent, Brandreth's podcast co-host.

COUNTDOWN star Susie Dent has created the new word "Eufloria" which captures the joy of receiving a bouquet of flowers. The lexicographer released the perfectly coined term - a riff on euphoria ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Countdown's Susie ... Dent believes it is a good example of how language evolves. In the English language, only mischievous and grievous end with 'ievous', while at least 10 words end in 'vious ...

The words expert also became a patron of the dog breed charity the Pointer Rescue Service in 2023. Dent has also toured theatres in the UK as part of her show Susie Dent: The Secret Lives Of Words.

SUSIE Dent is a regular face on daytime ... From Cockney to Geordie which was published in March 2010. Last year she released Dent's Modern Tribes, a book which looks into slang a phrases that ...

Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines ... An Emotional Dictionary by Susie Dent is published ...