Relatable new words you’ll want to start using immediately

Think your vocabulary is complete? Think again. Meet the latest batch of made-up words—clever, chaotic, and painfully relatable—that you’ll wonder how you ever lived without.

Loanership

When your clothes scream “get me back” but your friends have fostered ’em so long they think it’s essentially theirs. Return that leather jacket already?

Thugmuffin

A black cat with pookie potential. Basically, Shaq.

Backelganger

That healthy (debatable) Friday night adrenaline that keeps spotting a familiar person—but only from the back.

Freezza

When your anxiety-led brain fizzled with punctuality missed out on the event but got you some leftover pizza on time. Free carbs, why not?

Flooygon

Finally found y’all a word for that half-baked brain-of-a-human who mansplains you about topics you and the girls concluded back in 5th grade. “Are you smarter than a 5th grader?” Girl, I kid you not...

This piece originally appeared in the March-April print edition of Cosmopolitan India.

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