According to the American Dialect Society – the suffix “-ussy” was chosen as Word of the Year (2022) in its annual vote. It was the 33rd anniversary of the society’s original Word of the Year vote in December 1990. The term, “The selection of the suffix -ussy highlights how creativity in new word formation has been embraced online in venues like TikTok.”
Bunkies, the folks at ADS are going to use a vulgarity and I am merely going to quote them:
In a press release issued after the ADS vote on January 6, 2023, Ben Zimmer, chair of the society’s New Words Committee and language columnist for the Wall Street Journal (and former executive producer of the Visual Thesaurus) provided additional context. “The playful suffix builds off the word pussy to generate new slang terms. The process has been so productive lately on social media sites and elsewhere that it has been dubbed -ussification..” Remember, they said it, I’m merely quoting.
Oh those cunning linguists.
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