India, Nov. 8 -- Collins English Dictionary earlier this week named "mogging" its word of the year for 2026, picking a slang term that began a decade ago as gym talk for the most physically dominant man, passed through the online manosphere and has now been taken over by young people who mostly use it as a joke.

The publisher said use of the word rose 210% this year. Its lexicographers track the Collins Corpus, a 27-billion-word database that draws partly from social media.

To mog is to outshine, per Collins, which lists mogging as slang for outperforming someone or something. Rachel Quin, who wrote the dictionary's blog post on the word, put it more plainly: if someone or something has made you look "a bit rubbish by comparison", you h...