![]() ![]() In his new television series, Chris Lilley's alter-ego schoolgirl Ja'mie introduced "quiche", meaning attractive. ![]() How many potential new slang words have been dumped for not being sufficiently cool? Not enough, some will argue. Schoolgirl Gretchen Wieners describes any pleasant situation as "fetch" in an attempt to coin a new term for cool: "It's, like, slang from … England." Anti-hero Regina George shoots her down: "Gretchen, stop trying to make 'fetch' happen. T he borderline-cult film Mean Girls contains an amusing insight into young people's eagerness to leave their linguistic trademark on the world.
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