Cozzie livs: light-hearted term for cost-of-living crisis named Macquarie dictionary word of the year

Macquarie editors say cozzie livs was first used in the UK but has the typical Australian quality of making a serious subject easier to talk about. Photograph: Amer Ghazzal/Rex/Shutterstock

Cozzie livs has been crowned the Macquarie dictionary’s word of the year, with honourable mentions awarded to algospeak and blue-sky flood, while Australians awarded the people’s choice award to generative AI, ahead of skimpflation and rizz.

The Macquarie dictionary managing editor, Victoria Morgan, said colloquial terms for serious phenomena were over-represented in this year’s winning words – representing the stresses present on the mind of the Australian public.