Oxford Word of the Year 2022: 'goblin mode'

&quot;Goblin Mode&quot; Isn&#x27;t a word. Its two words. Goblin. And Mode.<p>I&#x27;ve also never heard anyone use the term before now. And reading the article, it seems it had a brief popularity on Twitter back in March and then faded away. Does that really qualify something as the word of the year?

2015: the tears of joy emoji<p>2016: post-truth<p>2017: youthquake<p>2018: toxic<p>2019: climate emergency<p>2020: (yes, 47 of them) allyship, anthropause, anti-masker, BC (before COVID), black lives matter, blm, blursday, bubble, cancel culture, circuit breaker, community transmission, coronavirus, covid-19, covidiot, decolonize, defund, doomscrolling, flatten the curve, furlough, hygiene theatre, infodemic, Juneteenth, learning modality, lockdown, mail-in, moonshot, net zero, pandemic, personal protective equipment, plandemic, PPE, R number, rona, sanny, self-isolate, social distancing, superspreader, systemic racism, take a knee, twindemic, unmute, veronica bucket, virtue-signalling, wet market, wokeness, workation, zoombombing<p>2021: vax

Starting with Anglo-Norman “gobeling,” there are some interesting specializations. “Redcaps” are goblins wearing hats dyed with human blood.