New words into OED (Sept'08)

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Oxford English Dictionary- Latest word entrants
(September 08)

"phwoar" - "expression of enthusiastic or lubricious approval"

"stud muffin"- an attractive man

"arm candy" - a good-looking date

"hairy eyeball" - the look made by someone expressing "hostility or disapproval

"mallrat" - someone who spends too much time hanging around shopping centres

"shagtastic" - uttered by Austin Powers "Shagtastic" was made popular a decade ago by Mike Myers's spoof spy and is also used to describe someone very sexy

"Britneys" - for beers, to rhyme with the name of Britney Spears.

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