A word defining middle-aged men in Lycra – MAMILs – "duck face" and "mahoosive" are among the 1,000 new words to make it into the online Oxford dictionary.
A MAMIL, in OxfordDictionaries.com, is defined as a "a middle-aged man who is a very keen road cyclist, typically one who rides an expensive bike and wears the type of clothing associated with professional cyclists."
The word has apparently been in use since at least 2010 since the number of amateur cyclists surged following British success in the Tour de France and in the Olympics in 2012.
Chelmsford's own Alex Dowsett, pictured, who won the individual time trial at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow this year, may not be middle aged but sports the appropriate clothing.
Words such as "fone", meaning phone, "hawt", meaning hot, and tomoz, an informal version of tomorrow, have also been included today (Thursday, December 4).
"Duck face" is defined as "an exaggerated pouting expression in which the lips are thrust outwards, typically made by a person posing for a photograph".
Judy Pearsall, editorial director for Oxford Dictionaries, said: "One of the benefits of our unique language monitoring programme is that it enables us to track in detail how English language evolves over relatively short periods of time.
"For instance, in this age of the selfie perhaps it's no surprise that average monthly usage of the term duck face is 35 per cent higher in 2014 than it was last year."
