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Merriam-Webster announced the 'Word of the 2009 ' today: admonish.
Admonish (ad-ˈmä-nish)
transitive verb
Etymology: Middle English admonesten, from Anglo-French amonester, from Vulgar Latin admonestare, alteration of Latin admonēre to warn, from ad- + monēre to warn
Date: 14th century
1 a : to indicate duties or obligations to b : to express warning or disapproval to especially in a gentle, earnest, or solicitous manner
2 : to give friendly earnest advice or encouragement to
3: duty of SFist commenters
"Admonish" was the most frequently looked up word in 2009. Runners up include emaciated,
empathy, furlough, and inaugurate.
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How about Obamanomics: An economy built upon imaginary job creation in imaginary voter districts.
I was really hoping that "dickmuffin" would make it in this year.
Go ahead, use it. Call someone a dickmuffin. Hilarity ensues.
I feel like there's a potential joke about people having to look up "empathy" in a dictionary.
Are you saying we have a duty or obligation to be more empathetic, or expressing disapproval in a gentle manner that we don't know what empathetic means?
I am truly shocked to see that "self-absorbed" didn't make the list. Everybody's doing it this year.
This year? It's been the "in" thing since around 1945.