These 5 new words / slangs were added to Oxford Dictionary recently

If you like to enrich your vocabulary then you are going to love this. As rich as the Oxford dictionary is, it is updated every year to add new words that become widely popular and find their way in daily usage. These could be colloquial words or popular abbreviations or even a modification/distortion of a word that already exists in the dictionary.

Learn about these new words and their meaning Chillax, Simples, Promposal, Bae and Whatevs.

Chillax

/tʃɪˈlaks/
verb: chillax; 3rd person present: chillaxes; gerund or present participle: chillaxing; past tense: chillaxed; past participle: chillaxed

calm down and relax.
“you can dance to your favourite tune, chillax, or have friends over”
Origin: early 21st century: blend of chill (sense 3 of the verb) and relax.

Simples

/ˈsɪmp(ə)lz/

used to convey that something is very straightforward.
“So if you don’t like the store, don’t shop there! Simples!”
Origin: early 21st century: popularized by its use as the catchphrase of a meerkat character in advertisements for the price comparison website comparethemarket.com.

Promposal

/prɒmˈpəʊz(ə)l/

An elaborately staged request to be someone’s date to prom.
‘Lindsay engineered her promposal with a poem, a special T-shirt, and poster’
Origin: Early 21st-century blend of prom and proposal.

Bae

/beɪ/
noun: bae; plural noun: baes

a person’s boyfriend or girlfriend (often as a form of address).
“I’m going to see my bae”
Origin: early 21st century: abbreviation of baby or babe.