Word Of The Year 2024. Towards the end of each year, the cambridge dictionary team gets together to pore over search data and decide which word deserves the title of word of the year, and 2024. The oxford english dictionary has named 'brain rot' as its 2024 word of the year, beating out five other words including 'demure'.
The competition page says that the first recorded use of the word was in 1854 in henry david thoreau’s book walden; The word of the year has finally been decided, and according to oxford and the voting public, “brain rot” is the term that best encapsulates 2024.