Because deranged slang has never been more relevant to your life.
Merriam-Webster’s word of the year has long-served as a litmus test for the zeitgeist. It captures the terms of the moment, ones that the whole family can get a chuckle out of: words made famous or infamous by politicians or “the discourse.” 2019’s was “they,” as in the pronoun. 2017’s was “feminism,” immediately conjuring the “nevertheless she persisted,” The Wing-era vortex.
The term refers to “a type of behavior which is unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy, typically in a way that rejects social norms or expectations.” If 2022 wasn’t decadent and depraved, I don’t know what it was. According to Oxford, the term popped up on Twitter as early as 2009, but the most popular use case involvesthat quoted Julia Fox saying that she and Kanye West broke up because he didn’t like it when she “went goblin mode.” (Fox later denied she ever used the word “goblin mode.”
The reason why the selection is so accurate to 2022? Because it was the first word of the year that was voted on publicly between three choices. “Metaverse” was the second choice, followed by “#IStandWith.” I’m no grammar purist, but there is something goblin-esque about a hashtag being a respected dictionary’s word of the year. Save it for Dictionary.com. But unsurprisingly, goblin mode was a landslide victory: It was selected by 318,956 people, making up 93% of the overall vote.
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