This week’s theme
Portmanteaux

This week’s words
shrinkflation
selectorate
frizzle
Sloane Ranger
fertigation

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(slohn RAYN-juhr)

MEANING:

noun: A young, fashionable, upper-class person.

ETYMOLOGY:

A blend of Sloane Square (in Chelsea, London) + Lone Ranger, coined by Tina Margetts in Harpers & Queen magazine. Earliest documented use: 1975.

NOTES:

Chelsea, in west London, is a wealthy area. Apparently it was fashionable at one time for young women from there to wear expensive country clothes. From the resemblance of someone with a scarf tied close to the chin to the masked Lone Ranger, the magazine writer Peter York coined this term and later co-wrote the book The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook. Originally the term applied to a young woman, but now can be used for anyone. The term is sometimes shortened to simply, Sloane.

USAGE:

“Go full-on Sloane Ranger in high-rise jeans and an oversize blazer.”
Fabulous at Every Age; Harper’s Bazaar (New York); Sep 2018.

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