Pandemic Slang Quiz

20 December 2020, 12:07 PM

Steve Miller

Pandemic Slang Quiz

2020 has created a dictionary’s worth of strange new words to describe these strange new times.

How many can you define?

I only got 5 out of 10.

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20 December 2020, 12:11 PM

wtg

6 out of 10. Hadn't heard of many of them so I was guessing. For at least three of the four I got wrong I was guessing between two and picked badly.

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20 December 2020, 12:15 PM

Dan

I'm kinda proud of myself! I got 2 out of 10, and just guessed one of those.

20 December 2020, 12:20 PM

wtg

Dan - You knew quarantini, right?

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20 December 2020, 12:42 PM

AdagioM

9/10. I spend a lot of time on social media. Does it show?

20 December 2020, 01:22 PM

ShiroKuro

I got all of them correct

. But that's because I obsessively read articles about language, new words etc.
Plus I love ~~portmanteaus~~ portmanteaux!

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20 December 2020, 01:26 PM

Doug

I got 8 right, but all but one were guesses.

20 December 2020, 02:21 PM

Nina

I've heard of almost none of these. I got 6 out of 10, with a lot of guesses.

Also I call foul: you hear of people hanging out with their "bubble" all the time here in Canada. Damn Yankee quizzes.

20 December 2020, 02:34 PM

Dan

quote:
Originally posted by wtg:
Dan - You knew quarantini, right?

Nah. I got the one about haircuts. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

20 December 2020, 05:25 PM

pianojuggler

9 out of 10.

Sad!

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20 December 2020, 08:56 PM

Amanda

quote:
Originally posted by Nina:
I've heard of almost none of these. I got 6 out of 10, with a lot of guesses.

Also I call foul: you hear of people hanging out with their "bubble" all the time here in Canada. Damn Yankee quizzes.

I thought the term for a self-defined/followed group created for purposes of contagion limitation was a "pod'.

I think these so-called definitions were made up by the author - not reflecting general terms. No wonder so many can be arrived at by guesswork.

Don't think they're genuine widespread social terms.

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20 December 2020, 09:09 PM

piqué

I got 7 right. I only actually had heard of one. The rest I just picked the answers I liked best.

20 December 2020, 09:09 PM

ShiroKuro

quote:
so-called definitions were made up by the author - not reflecting general terms.

I don't think so (I mean, I don't think the author made any words or defs up). I recognized all of them from seeing them online, either people posting on FB or else reading about them. For example, like quaranteam is a word I have never seen used "in the wild" but I've seen it used in articles about covid. OTOH "pod" is one I see used in the wild all the time.

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20 December 2020, 09:19 PM

jodi

9 out of 10. Thought it was joy surfing.

21 December 2020, 12:56 PM

AdagioM

quote:
Originally posted by jodi:
9 out of 10. Thought it was joy surfing.

That’s the one I missed. I’ve never heard the term they used. We only talk about doomscrolling around here, anyway.