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Martha Alexander

Goblin mode: The Oxford Word Of The Year is an accurate description of 2022

Do you like to go full goblin and luxuriate in your own filth?

(Picture: Paramount Pictures)

Sinking into your sofa under a blanket stained with tomato from takeaway pizza – the crusts of which are long cold in the box on the floor but you’ll probably eat them later. Gormlessly watching Too Hot To Handle with no sense of irony. Making no plans to do anything as productive as, say, brushing your teeth or leaving the house.

If you can relate to any of the above, chances are you’re familiar with “goblin mode”, Oxford University Press’s Word Of The Year 2022 – and the first to be chosen by the public.

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