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๐ฅ๋ํฌํฌ, the word for sounding old online
New one for me this week. ๋ํฌํฌ (neul-keu-keu) is ๋๋ค (to get old) plus ํฌํฌ, an older way of typing a laugh before everyone moved to ใ ใ ใ . So it's a person, or a way of talking, that gives away your age, like using a word that peaked years ago and acting like it's still fresh. The example that made it click is from Lee Hyun-yi's YouTube video with five other models. She introduced them as "๋์ธ ์ค์ ๋์ธ", basically the hottest of the hot, and the younger ones jumped on it right away. One said he hadn't heard ๋์ธ in ages, and Kim Jin-kyung just called her ๋ํฌํฌ. Lee Hyun-yi asked what people say now instead, and nobody actually had an answer, which is my favorite part. It's been all over Korean news because Hangul Day this year marked 100 years, and outlets kept listing it next to other new words like ๋์ข (short for "good vibes") and ๋ฐคํฐ (something that looks kind of off). YTN even put it in a headline. Using it on yourself is cute. Calling a coworker that is a choice.
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- ๐Tenasia โ 'S์ ์โฅ' ์ดํ์ด, ็ท๋ชจ๋ธ ๋์ง๊ตฌ ๊ณ ๋ฐฑ๋ฐ์๋ค ('์ํน๋ง')https://www.tenasia.co.kr/article/2026101036364
- ๐OSEN โ ์ดํ์ด, '๋์ธ'๋ ๋ง ์ผ๋ค๊ฐ '๋ํฌํฌ' ๋๋คhttp://www.osen.co.kr/article/G1112891006
- ๐YTN โ "๋ํฌํฌ๋ค์ ๋ ธ์ผ์ด์ผ" ํ๊ธ๋ ์ ์ 100์ฃผ๋ ...์ฐ๋ฆฌ ์ธ์ด๋?https://www.ytn.co.kr/_ln/0103_202610091201592258
- ๐ฌVideoYouTube (์ํน๋ง์ดํ์ด) โ ๋ชจ๋ธ 6์ธ์ด ๋ง์์ฃผ๋ F/W ์๊ฐํ ํ์น ๋ฃฉhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Acu3Urvyy8
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