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Should bum gun, wall of death, family cloth and whale fall go in the dictionary?

We’re ready to look at some more new words as submitted by you, our readers and fellow word connoisseurs.

We are always on the lookout for new, emerging and interesting words to add to the Macquarie Dictionary, so please let us know if you know of one.

Who’s down to get a banh mi after the wall of death tonight? Might meet a silver fox there too. But hope he has a bum gun at home and not family cloth!

See other words suggested to the Macquarie Dictionary here.

 

 

 

  

Macquarie Dictionary new words - banh mi - Vietnamese bread bun/roll

Macquarie Dictionary new words - thundersnow - thunder and lightning during a snowstorm

Macquarie Dictionary new words - bum gun - a bidet

Macquarie Dictionary new words - whisper network a chain of information privately passed between people, typically a list of powerful men in an industry alleged as being sexual harassers or abusers

Macquarie Dictionary new words silver fox a handsome man with grey hair

Macquarie Dictionary new words whale fall a dead whale that falls into the abyssal zone to the ocean floor and becomes a complex ecosystem for deep-sea organisms.

Macquarie Dictionary new words zoodle a zucchini noodle -- a spiralised strand of zucchini, often used as a substitute for pasta

Macquarie Dictionary new words - wall of death - an extreme variation on moshing wherein a crowd divides and each half runs at the other

Macquarie Dictionary new words - family cloth - reusable toilet paper made of cloth that is used and washed to be used again, for all members of a family

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