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Thursday, June 14, 2007

Muffin top!

Haha... moi learned a new word from the newspaper today~~~~

MUFFIN TOP!!From wikipedia:
Muffin top (or muffin top girl) is a generally pejorative, slang term used for a person, usually female, whose flabby midsection spills over the waistline of his or her pants in a manner that resembles the top of a muffin
spilling over its casing. This generally occurs when an individual wears low rise or hip-hugger pants and midriff-baring tops.
However, the muffin top isn't exclusive to low-rise jeans. Any jeans that are too tight at the waist can cause a muffin top. In addition, low rise jeans of the right size usually will not create a muffin top.

Hmm...i think i'm a fashion victim of the "Muffin top" as well!! Muffin top originated as AUSTRALIAN slang in mid-2003 and was first popularized by the Australian television show "KATH & KIM".
In fact, Australia's Macquarie Dictionary named "muffin top" the word of the year in 2006. And the American Dialect Society named it one of the "most creative" new terms that same year.

It's so commomly used that the word "muffin top" is one of hundreds of new words and phrases, along with "wag", "size zero" and "hoodie", that have entered the language and are listed in the Collins English Dictionary's 9th edition, available on June 4, 2007.

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