Почему?

Это на следующий год!

Other words in Collins' top ten for 2021 include:

* climate anxiety = concern about climate change;

* hybrid working = alternating between working at home and in an office (eg because of Covid restrictions);

* double-vaxxed = (of a person) having had two vaccinations (eg for Covid);

* cheugy (teenage slang) = no longer cool or fashionable;

* metaverse = a proposed version of the internet comprising three-dimensional virtual environments;

* pingdemic = when the UK National Health Service (NHS)'s Covid app (or a similar app) 'pings' (=notifies) a lot of people on their phone to tell them they've come into contact with someone with coronavirus and so have to self-isolate.

In the past there's also been anti-vaxxer = someone who doesn't agree with being vaccinated (eg against Covid) and social distancing, of course.

А чего их ждать:

Vax is Oxford English Dictionary's 2021 word of the year | Fortune

Presumably Oxford are looking at both new words/phrases, as well as existing words/phrases which are being used much more frequently than in the past, whereas Collins are looking at new words/phrases, or existing words/phrases that have taken on new meanings over the past year-or-so, even if they're not used especially frequently. I've never heard the word 'cheugy', for example, and 'metaverse' is a very specialised word, so is not in common use.

The word 'sleaze' has now become popular again under Boris Johnson, as his government has proved to be one of the most corrupt Britain has ever had -- so 'sleaze' is being used by the UK media once again.

"Cheugy" is a nice one. I like it.

Почему? Просто сорное слово, коих полно во всех языках.

MT тоже... Однако ж, пипл хавает и доволен вполне... И можно ли, позвольте спросить, насладиться прелестями прескриптивного подхода, не ужаснувшись уродствами дескриптивного?..

As for cheugy, I think it's an awful word! I'd never heard of it until yesterday and I've no idea how it's pronounced -- but then, I'm not a teenager. I suspect (hope?) it will have disappeared by next year, but who knows....?

When I first heard cool being used to mean 'good', as opposed to the traditional meaning of just 'quite cold', I thought: "What a ridiculous word, it'll never catch on [=become popular]". That was 30 years ago, and people are still using it.

In the 1960s a word commonly used by teenagers to mean 'good'/'attractive'/'stylish', was groovy -- as in the 1965 pop song A Groovy Kind of Love (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVyPQA3PO5U). By the 1970s, at least in the UK, almost no-one was saying 'groovy' as it was considered outdated. Nowadays if you say 'groovy' people will usually assume that you're referring to the 1960s.

Also, until around 30 years ago, guys (in the plural) meant 'men' (only). Now it means 'men', 'women', or 'people' (of either sex). However, I've never heard guy (in the singular) being used to refer to a single woman -- only to a single man.

My prediction for Word of the Year 2022 (apart from booster, suggested by Aiduza): Omicron.

На диске альбома Бони-М, выпущенном фирмой "Мелодия", название песни Daddy Cool было переведено как "Не беспокойся, папа" :-))

Была на дискотеке от ЦАГИ, народ оборудовал нечто типа клуба - бар, стены в плакатах и газетных вырезках. Одна из таких вырезок была наклеена под надписью "Лепим чернуху" - в статейке автор писал про песню Биттлз "Michelle" и слова " Michelle , ma belle" он перевел как "Мишель - ты мой звонок"!!)))))))

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"Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon"

When I was a student in Liverpool in the 1970s I was once in a pub with some friends. One of them went up to the barman and jokingly said: "Can you enlighten me as to where the gentlemen's nose-powdering facility is?" The barman didn't understand the joke at all and said: "Eh?". My friend then just said: "Where's the shithouse?" Barman: "Downstairs on the left".

the powder room (the .5 bath)

.... a real estate advertisement might state that a home has 4 bedrooms and 2.5 baths and then note that the powder room (the .5 bath) is located on the first floor (what you call the ground floor). Informally, a powder room is usually just referred to as a bathroom....

http://www.quora.com/Why-do-Americans-call-a-toilet-a-bathroom-when-it-doesn’t-even-contain-a-bath#:~:text=Americans probably call it a,the you need to pee.

In private homes in the UK a bathroom usually means 'a room with a bath and/or shower in it, usually with a handbasin and with or without a toilet', and a toilet is a room with just a toilet (and often a handbasin) in it, but no bath/shower. Simple.

In public buildings in the UK (eg, pubs) a toilet is either called simply

* a toilet, or

* a/the gents (short for gentlemen's toilet), or

* a/the ladies (short for ladies' toilet)

-- or, if you want a slightly posher term,

* a/the WC.

The euphemism bathroom (for toilet) is sometimes used in posh buildings (eg the Ritz Hotel) and by people who, for some strange reason, get embarrassed about mentioning toilets. Even more euphemistic is restroom.

Классно, но первый раз слышу

Был у меня один знакомый, который однажды продемонстрировал мне книгу, из которой торчал кусок туалетной бумаги, используемый в качестве закладки. На мой недоумённый взгляд, книгочей с некой даже гордостью поведал, что это книга, которую он сейчас читает и, чтобы не терять времени даром, берёт с собой в обсуждаемое заведение... Впрочем, должен заметить, что дело происходило на работе, поэтому затяжные посиделки в "месте, куда короли пешком ходят" выглядят — с нашей-то, раздолбайской колокольни — вполне непредосудительными...

еще "два нуля" (наверное отсюда и дабл)