The Oxford Australia blog selects ‘schmick up’ (verb: to smarten (something) up; to renovate (something); to improve (something) superficially) as its word for the month of November. The post reports that the adjective schmick has undergone the contemporary fashion of being verbed and nouned, in this case with the addition of ‘up’ (thankfully we’ve been …

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The Oxford Australia blog features a word-of-the-month that began as an acronym: CUB – cashed-up bogan. Apparently CUB is included in the second edition of the Australian National Dictionary, so that makes it a word, I guess. The article tries to make the case that the term has transformed from a derogatory pejorative to a …

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