Ginormous is now a word in the dictionary?
ginormous
• adjective Brit. informal extremely large.
— ORIGIN blend of GIANT and ENORMOUS.
Um, yeah. Here's more.....
n. (Scottish) a person's buttocks.
– origin 1930s : prob. a blend of behind and hough + -ie.
n. informal guitar riffs, especially in rock music.
n. (Brit. informal) a stupid or foolish person.
– origin 1980s : perh. a blend of twit1 or twat and plonker.
Yogalates (also trademark Yogilates)
n. a fitness routine that combines Pilates exercises with the postures and breathing techniques of yoga.
– origin 1990s : blend of yoga and Pilates.
bippy
n. (US informal) a person's buttocks
-origin 1960s: of unknown origin
heffalump
n. a child's term for an elephant
origin 1920s: coined by A.A. Milne in Winnie the Pooh
hooptie
n. (US informal) a car, especially an old or dilapidated one
origin 1960's origin unknown
mentee
n. a person who is advised, trained, or counselled by a mentor
moblog
n. a weblog that consists of pictures and other content posted from a mobile phone.
This week ‘chill pill,’ ‘argh,’ ‘bikini wax,’ and ‘problemo’ are among the almost 2,700 new words that were added to the OED.
“The revised range of the OED contains 2,693 entries, bringing the
total number of main entries to 260,154,” notes John Simpson,
Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford English Dictionary. “They are illustrated by
2,827,811 quotations and represent 697,324 different meanings.”
Some of the other new and revised entries to the OED include:
Brooklynite
sleeper cell
glitch
high-maintenance
low-maintenance
prime directive
Islamofascism
scratch and sniff
focus group
prissy
primal scream
that’s not my problem
comeback kid
Hollywood ending
Doesn't it make you just want to make up a word and see if you can make it common enough to end up in the dictionary?
But for now - argh is a word, argh is a word!
bippy
n. (US informal) a person's buttocks
-origin 1960s: of unknown origin
heffalump
n. a child's term for an elephant
origin 1920s: coined by A.A. Milne in Winnie the Pooh
hooptie
n. (US informal) a car, especially an old or dilapidated one
origin 1960's origin unknown
mentee
n. a person who is advised, trained, or counselled by a mentor
moblog
n. a weblog that consists of pictures and other content posted from a mobile phone.
This week ‘chill pill,’ ‘argh,’ ‘bikini wax,’ and ‘problemo’ are among the almost 2,700 new words that were added to the OED.
“The revised range of the OED contains 2,693 entries, bringing the
total number of main entries to 260,154,” notes John Simpson,
Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford English Dictionary. “They are illustrated by
2,827,811 quotations and represent 697,324 different meanings.”
Some of the other new and revised entries to the OED include:
Brooklynite
sleeper cell
glitch
high-maintenance
low-maintenance
prime directive
Islamofascism
scratch and sniff
focus group
prissy
primal scream
that’s not my problem
comeback kid
Hollywood ending
Doesn't it make you just want to make up a word and see if you can make it common enough to end up in the dictionary?
But for now - argh is a word, argh is a word!
2 comments:
ow, wouldn't it be fun to play Scrabble with the OED as your dictionary instead of that pathetic Official Scrabble on they have? Anything would go.
Actually ginormous is in the Miriam Webster dictionary, as are
nocebo
noun
: a harmless substance that when taken by a patient is associated with harmful effects due to negative expectations or the psychological condition of the patient
and
viewshed
noun
: the natural environment that is visible from one or more viewing points
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