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This year's new words – the whole list

Here are all 32 words that have made it onto this year's new word list. The words have been coined or become more common during the year - and say something about both 2024 and what linguistic trends and patterns exist.

» Published: 27 December 2024

This year's new words – the whole list
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+ "Active Club"

Club where right-wing extremists train martial arts together.

+ "Ankkurva"

A graph showing the relationship between the availability of electricity from solar energy and the demand for electricity. The two lines form a figure that resembles a duck.

+ "Avocado Scanner"

A device that shows the ripeness of an avocado.

+ "Child Torpedo"

Children who commit a serious crime on behalf of a criminal gang.

+ "Brat Summer"

A summer characterized by a carefree lifestyle with a focus on enjoyment and freedom.

+ "Coolcation"

A vacation spent in a place with a cooler climate.

+ "Demure"

Decent.

+ "Dragon Drone"

A fire-spewing unmanned aerial vehicle used in combat.

+ "Double Club"

Sports club with elite activities for both women and men.

+ "Double Rate Cut"

A reduction of the interest rate by 50 percentage points.

+ "Hostage Diplomacy"

A negotiation method where a state arbitrarily detains a citizen of another state to use them in prisoner exchanges.

+ "Grisch"

An appearance that aims to look well-off.

+ "Green Granny"

A previously law-abiding woman who is employed by criminal networks.

+ "Looksmaxing"

The pursuit of optimizing one's appearance with the help of, for example, diet, exercise, skin care, and surgery.

+ "Magda Moderate"

A former bourgeois voter who now votes for the Social Democrats, mainly due to a reluctance to support a government coalition that includes the Sweden Democrats.

+ "Mittocracy"

An organizational form where more and more power and resources are concentrated in the middle, above the core business and below the top leadership.

+ "Quishing"

Fraud using QR codes.

+ "Rawdogga"

Performing an activity without planning or preparation.

+ "Romantasy"

A genre in literature and film that combines romance and fantasy.

+ "Trash Balloon"

A balloon containing, for example, waste or feces, used in a political conflict.

+ "Shadow Fleet"

Unregistered and uninsured vessels used to circumvent sanctions.

+ "Slop"

Low-quality content generated by AI.

+ "Soft Girl"

A young woman who embraces values considered soft, such as beauty and family life, and chooses to prioritize them over her career.

+ "Swiftie Dad"

A father who, like his child, is a fan of Taylor Swift.

+ "Terian"

A person, often a child, who dresses up as and partially identifies as an animal.

+ "Tiktokify"

Making videos and other content more attention-grabbing and clickable.

+ "Girl New Year"

A fresh start in conjunction with the autumn semester.

+ "Total End-to-End Encryption"

A technique that ensures only the sender and recipient can read a message in plain text.

+ "Pressure Apartment"

A temporary residence where a perpetrator can hide before and after a crime.

+ "Ultra-Fast Fashion"

Clothing and accessories created in a very rapid and often unethical production cycle within the fashion industry.

+ "Umarell"

An older man who follows construction projects in public spaces.

+ "Friendship Bench"

A placed bench that encourages conversation between people, as a way to counteract mental illness.

Source: Språktidningen

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