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Australians pick "muffin top" for hip word
dpa German Press Agency
Published: Tuesday January 23, 2007
Sydney- A word to describe the unsightly flab that spills out of the top of the low-cut jeans some women wear was Wednesday named Word of the Year by Australia's influential Macquarie Dictionary. Muffin top is an Australian colloquialism popularized by the internationally acclaimed television comedy Kath and Kim.
Muffin top won a nomination for the American Dialect Society's Word of the Year but was beaten for the title by whale tail, the part of a G-string that, deliberately or accidentally, shows above the waistband of low-cut women's pants.
Macquarie Dictionary's Sue Butler said the voting panel, chaired by Sydney University Vice Chancellor Gavin Brown, went for muffin top because of its vivid imagery and because it was a genuine Australianism.
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