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Article: Groovy is in, bootylicious may not last.(Arts & Literature)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- September 26, 2004
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Byline: Matt Cooper The Register-Guard
"After a few rounds of Botox, the housewife with the SUV was looking positively bootylicious."
Botox? SUV? Bootylicious?
All three words - and 2,000 others - were recently added or revised in the online version of the Oxford English Dictionary.
Given the ever-changing landscape of the English language, however, it's anybody's guess how long they'll be in use.
Everybody knows what an SUV is, and Botox is a wrinkle-remover. The online Oxford dictionary defines "bootylicious," in one context, as: "(Said) of a woman, often with reference to the buttocks: sexually attractive, sexy; shapely."
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