You were today years old when you learned this.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.etymonline.com/columns/post/big-reveal:-etymonline-drops-its-word-of-the-year-(dec’d)-for-25!
Oh oh… now apparently we have three slops to deal with: the prête à porter one you buy at the department store and put on hastily in the hope that your blind date won’t notice its humble origin, the sloshy swill you ingested with bad grace as a kid under the supervision of an inflexible aunt, and the flurry of “delve”, “it’s worth noting” (that I regularly misread as “it’s worth nothing”), “multifaceted” and so much more semantic rubbish churned out by a sloppy AI (pun intended 
).
Things are getting complicated… 
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