Wicked Words

Languages are forever changing and evolving. Different groups and organisations often construct or appropriate words to promote their ideologies or as sales terms. Codes and meanings can be hidden within words. So-called “slang” words enter common parlance via word of mouth and more rapidly when they are adopted by the media.

Do you have any words that are personal to you and your family, or to you and your friends?

Tell us about one of those words, or make one up today. You can create an entirely new word; you could flip the meaning of an existing word; or you could amalgamate two or more words.

Using the text box on the submission form, write a dictionary definition of your new word and insert it into a sentence, as an example of how to use it.

Inspiration:

Here is a dictionary definition of the word “wicked”.

Here is the urban dictionary definition for the same word.

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