Although the term refers to the magnetic confidence and swagger of a well-endowed man, BDE is by no means limited to a well-endowed man, as the Cut’s Allison P. Davis artfully explained earlier this year. Unlike the other shortlisted words, the Oxford dictionary folks deferred to a series of authors and Twitter users when it came to defining BDE, as if it got a little flustered in its very presence.

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