The new Dutch term klimaatklever was voted the 2022 Word of the Year. According to Van Dale, the dictionary publisher that runs the contest every year, a klimaatklever is “an activist who glues themself to an object of symbolic value to draw the public’s attention to the climate crisis.” The new slang term is derived from the Dutch words for …
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The new edition of Dikke Van Dale contains 979 new English keywords, including influencer, airfryer, Covid-19, body-shaming, and big tech. English words make up about 10 percent of the new words added to the Dutch dictionary. The 16th edition of the Dikke Van Dale, which will publish on March 22, also includes words from Chinese, Italian, Moroccan, and Spanish, among …
