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Brat was crowned Collins Dictionary word of the year earlier this month, with lexicographers defining it as someone with a "confident, independent and hedonistic attitude".

Collins' lexicographers, who put together their dictionaries, look at social media and other sources to determine which words should be added to their annual list of new and notable words.

The list was narrowed down in a public vote, before Oxford lexicographers made the final decision.

And there was a big court case going on at the time, where a slang lexicographer, Stephen Farmer, was being sued for putting in the c-word and the f-word in his dictionary.

That is according to responses to a tongue-in-cheek tweet from Countdown wordsmith and lexicographer Susie Dent.