Gobsmacked means being completely astonished, amazed, or shocked. It is stronger than ordinary surprise, featuring disbelief or being taken...

Sussing, a British slang term from the 1950s, means figuring something out through careful observation and common sense, often by reading c...

Despite its cheerful sound, the word 'jimjams' refers to feelings of depression, anxiety, or nervousness, not pajamas. This informal noun, ...

Tony Thorne, a British linguist, explains how slang evolves and proliferates rapidly online through platforms like TikTok and Instagram. He...

The New York Times (NYT) Connections puzzle for Tuesday, February 18, 2025, presents another exciting challenge for players.

A video from Pakistan has gone viral where a train conductor offends a British traveller by calling his wife fat and unhealthy. The inciden...

Farage -- an admirer of former US president Donald Trump -- dismissed claims that Russian bots might interfere in the election as "cobblers...

Actress Rebel Wilson's memoir 'Rebel Rising' has caused a stir with revelations of a provocative invitation to a 2014 party involving a mem...

The Rolling Stones held a private launch party in New York for their first new album in 18 years. The album, titled 'Hackney Diamonds,' has...

In an interview with BBC on Tuesday, Richards acknowledged that his playing may have slowed down slightly with age, but he emphasized his a...

Actor Kevin Spacey denied 12 charges of sexual assault and indecent assault against four men on the second day of his trial in a London cou...

Australia's central bank said that the $5 bill featured a portrait of the late queen not as a genuflexion to her royal status, but in recog...

U.S. President Joe Biden and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi debuted at the G7 virtual leaders' meeting which was chaired by British Pr...

Whatever the general misgivings, some find captivity quite captivating.

The authorities of a prison in Kerala are giving a new twist to ‘doing porridge’, the British slang term for serving a jail sentence, by ge...

The United States has an updated rendition for foreign visitors of the expression "Loose Lips Sink Ships" that was used to warn its citizen...

McDonald’s UK has begun a campaign to get the Oxford English Dictionary to change its definition of the word ‘McJob’.