Gen Z or younger students glued to their phones  (Photo | AFP)
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Online dictionary platforms are at it to out-mog each other in picking up the most Gen-Z word for this year

Express News Service

It's that time of the year when linguists have a hearty laugh at the cost of pouting purists. While coming out with the first word-of-the-year pick this season, Scrabble-friendly Collins dictionary plumped for ‘mogging’, defined as upstaging someone else in appearance. Gen Z members might have voted for an entry that didn’t make the cut—unc, short for uncle, used to describe an older, out-of-touch person. Dictionary.com, on the other hand, has picked ‘maxxing’, triggered by the soaring currency for looksmaxxing and booksmaxxing. Let’s suggest our own pick for the year: pebbling. It’s a kind of share-maxxing used by all generations in recent years—to some people’s delight and others’ disturbance. Can you mog others and guess what the term means in this context?

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