According to Twitter users, moots means to be mutuals, which means to follow each other back. 12 episode of The Kardashians what happens when you fall behind in your Twitter vocabulary, but thankfully, she took one for the team so you can make sure you don’t make the same mistake. Kardashian found out the hard way while tweeting during the Oct. These definitions remain true, but it’s time to add another meaning to the word if you don’t want to be out of the loop. Law aficionados might also refer to the term as meaning there’s nothing left to dispute in a court case - it’s moot. ![]() (Well, you shouldn’t actually forget it, but be ready to expand the word into multiple meanings.) In pre-Twitter times, you probably used moot as an adjective to describe something that was irrelevant. Let’s break down the meaning behind the trending slang term on Twitter, so you can be totally up-to-date with the cool kids.īefore we get into the slang term, moots, you’ll have to forget what you thought “moot” meant. ![]() If you’re on the forefront of internet terms, kudos to you, but if you’re scratching your head and wondering “moots” actually means, you’re in the right place. Now, if a Kardashian can’t keep up, how are you expected to? The reality star was confused when a fan tweeted at her, asking to be “moots,” to which Kardashian replied, “WTH is that.” Honestly, same. Even Khloé Kardashian was tripped up by the slang term a fan shared with her in an Oct. He’s also the author of Carnal Knowledge – A Navel Gazer’s Dictionary of Anatomy, Etymology, and Trivia as well as the audio book Global Wording – The Fascinating Story of the Evolution of English.Can we be moots? If you have no idea what that question means, you’re not alone. This could mean that New York Times journalists are familiar with Greek, or that they aren’t stingy with their praise.įive days a week Charles Hodgson produces Podictionary – the podcast for word lovers, Thursday episodes here at OUPblog. I did a search on the last decade of the New York Times and found hundreds of uses of kudos but the 40 or so uses of kudo that came up seemed all to be people’s names. Merriam-Webster now lists kudo the singular form as the main entry for the word with a plural and a whole second entry for kudos being another word. The Oxford English Dictionary still says this is an erroneous use but Merriam-Webster accepts the false-singular as a word as early as 1926. ![]() It isn’t given credit as actually being an English word until 1831.Īs a Greek word that ends in “s” it isn’t plural, although sometimes people treat it as if it were and give a single kudo as if they were saving higher praise for greater achievement. Kudos is said first to have been used as slang at universities where in the late 1700s Greek would have held a far more important position than it does today. In Greek it held the figurative meaning of “praise” but the more literal meaning of “fame” and “renown.” So when someone is given kudos it is as if the person praising them was saying “you deserve to be famous.”Įven more literally kudos meant “that which is heard of” and you can see the same root in kudos that also exists in acoustic which Francis Bacon plucked from the Greek word akouein meaning “to hear.” While many, many English words are built on Greek roots, the word kudos is a direct borrowing from Greek. “Kudos to Peter & Sam who highlight the fact that statistical sampling is far more accurate…” Kudos means “praise.” Here’s how it’s used in a sentence according to a piece from the New York Times: ITunes users can subscribe to this podcast
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