Do you know your sideeye from your subtweets? Take our amazeballs quiz

Oxford Dictionaries has added dozens of new words to its online edition, including 'amazeballs', 'mansplain' and 'humblebrag'. Are you up to speed with our evolving language?
  
  


  1. What’s a “subtweet”?

    1. A tweet that corrects a spelling mistake in a previous tweet

    2. A negative tweet that refers to another Twitter member without using their username

    3. A spam tweet about Subway sandwiches made in exchange for money off

    4. A tweet you delete because it’s not up to your usual standards

  2. When would you give someone the “sideeye”?

    1. On “Side-eye Friday”, a weekly Twitter in-joke

    2. When you disapprove of or dislike what they’ve said or done

    3. On a special occasion but only if you really loved them

    4. When you need them to save you from an awkward conversation

  3. What is “clickbait”?

    1. A hyperlink that deliberately doesn’t work

    2. A misleading, overblown headline designed to lure in readers

    3. A collective term for unskilled gamers

    4. A catchy song that makes you want to click your fingers

  4. Which of these is a “humblebrag”?

    1. “No one ever tells me I’m attractive :(”

    2. “I keep telling people they’re attractive! :)”

    3. “So fed up of people telling me I’m attractive :(“

    4. “I’m so attractive! :)”

  5. If something is “cray” it is - what?

    1. Crazy

    2. Sad

    3. A mobster

    4. A lobster

  6. What is a “fandom”?

    1. An online friend you added at random but kept so you look more popular

    2. A comic book convention that riots and declares itself an independent state

    3. The collective term for fans of a specific person or thing

    4. A sexually dominant geisha

  7. When would you “hate-watch” a show?

    1. When you love it but it makes you hate yourself

    2. When you’re watching it with people you don’t like to avoid having to talk

    3. When you don’t like it but you enjoy mocking it

    4. When you’re worried it contains incitement to racial or religious violence

  8. Who or what is “neckbeard”?

    1. A pirate GIF that derails conversations on internet messageboards

    2. A facial hair style in which most of the hair is on the neck and chin

    3. A very strange new character in the Hobbit films

    4. Abraham Lincoln

  9. What are you doing when you “throw shade”?

    1. Protecting someone less popular than you online

    2. Playing World of Warcraft

    3. Publicly insulting or criticising someone

    4. Dry-heaving

  10. If something is “amazeballs”, what is it?

    1. A video of footballers doing something bizarre or brilliant

    2. A really tasty Jewish side dish

    3. Exceptionally great, attractive or interesting

    4. Easy to get lost in and rubbish

Solutions

1:B, 2:B, 3:B, 4:C, 5:A, 6:C, 7:C, 8:B, 9:C, 10:C

Scores

  1. 4 and above.

    That was cray bad. If people knew about this, they’d be giving you the side-eye and sub-tweeting about it.

  2. 7 and above.

    Not terrible, but not amazeballs. We’re not throwing shade at you but that’s definitely nothing to humblebrag about.

  3. 10 and above.

    Amazeballs! Your vocabulary is cray. Get on Twitter and start humblebragging about it right now.

 

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