[0] NEW DICTIONARY'S A CHUDDY GOOD READ.

E-MAIL your chuddy-wearing friends on the WAP, tell them to activate their gaydar, dump their frankenfood and buy the new Oxford English Dictionary to find out what's happening.

Baffled? Then a translation of these words and 65 others can be found in the latest edition of the compact dictionary where they are included for the first time.

While cover-slut, a 17th-century word meaning overall has dropped out, gaydar - the ability of one gay person to spot another - is in. Many of the entries come from the worlds of new technology and fashion.

WAP is a mobile phone with web access while screenager is a teenager addicted to the internet. Sticky is a popular website which is visited regularly.

Shrug is a close-fitting cardigan while combats are army-style, patch pocket trousers.

But chuddies - underpants - comes from hit TV comedy Goodness Gracious Me! Editor Catherine Soanes, who has seen the words come into popular use since the last dictionary was published in 1996, said: "Fashion and beauty have always been big contributors to the English language."

Other entries include frankenfood - GM meals - and buzz-cut, a crew cut as worn by William Hague and David Beckham.

But words which didn't make it include Blairism, any phrase associated with Prime Minister Tony Blair, bindi - stick-on face jewel - superwaif and fashion icon.