Charli XCX influence behind word of the year winner

Brat - popularised by vocalist Charli XCX - has been named Collins connection of the year.

It's the rubric of the UK singer's sixth medium and the dictionary institution says it inspired a manner "characterised by a confident, independent, and hedonistic attitude".

Being called brat successful this consciousness is apt to beryllium a compliment.

Some amusement critics and journalists person said it's the rejection of the "clean girl" aesthetic connected TikTok that's based connected ideals of groomed femininity.

Lexicographers astatine Collins trawled the media and their database and enactment brat fig 1 arsenic it's been "embraced truthful widely" and is "one of the astir talked astir words of 2024".

For galore however, the connection volition inactive conjure up its much established meaning - a severely behaved oregon ill-mannered child.

Other words connected the database see era, inspired by Taylor Swift's hugely palmy tour; yapping - talking astatine magnitude astir inconsequential things; and delulu, meaning utterly mistaken oregon unrealistic successful one's ideas oregon expectations.

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Rawdogging besides appears connected the connection of the twelvemonth list.

It refers to spending a agelong formation simply staring astatine the spot successful beforehand without immoderate distractions, and sometimes forgoing food, portion and the toilet arsenic good - not thing doctors recommend.

It follows a TikTok inclination that Manchester City prima Erling Haaland besides participated in.

Alex Beecroft, managing manager of Collins, said: "With galore of this year's notable words being popularised by generations Z and Alpha, we tin confidently accidental this is the astir 'brat' Word of the Year database ever."

Last year's list enactment AI, the abbreviation of artificial intelligence, astatine fig one, portion "nepo baby" and semaglutide were besides among the picks.