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The term 'mogging' is a significant enough linguistic trend to be recognized as the word of the year.

LinguisticsSlangDictionariesNov 3, 2026score 0.662 posts · 2 replies across 2 instances
The posts discuss the selection of the slang term 'mogging' as the Collins English Dictionary's word of the year. The discussion highlights the term's meaning of outshining or outperforming others and its status as a contemporary linguistic trend.

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The term 'mogging' is a significant enough linguistic trend to be recognized as the word of the year.
Parent: LinguisticsEntity: Collins English DictionarySub-entity: Word of the YearImpact: neutralDate: Nov 3, 2026Target: mogging

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Mogging", a word used playfully to mean outshining, outperforming or upstaging someone or something, has been named word of the year by the Collins English Dictionary. As in, “We Mastodonians are totally mogging the Internet.” #language #linguistics
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Collins' word of the year is "mogging". If you don't know what it means,* then it's doing its job as slang (for now) https://blog.collinsdictionary.com/language-lovers/collins-word-of-the-year-2026-a-year-of-being-outdone/ * outshining or outperforming someone or something #slang #words #WOTY #WOTY2026 #language #dictionary
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