"Bunny-boiler," "chick-lit" and "booty" have all been added to the OED and Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.
Particularly applicable to academics is "anoraky: Socially inept and studious or obsessive person with unfashionable and largely solitary interests."
If the shoe didn't fit quite so well, I might be offended. See Unbelievable!
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Re: OED and Merriam-Webster's Add New Words
what i want to know is if "blogging" made it :)
Re: OED and Merriam-Webster's Add New Words
I do not like that spelling of "booty." I think "bootie" is much better. What are these people thinking?! :-)
Re: OED and Merriam-Webster's Add New Words
"booty" is the prime word in funk
Shake your booty
Get your booty out