OED and Merriam-Webster's Add New Words

"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!
for details on what new vocabulary you need to know.

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cel4145's picture

Re: OED and Merriam-Webster's Add New Words

what i want to know is if "blogging" made it :)

Clancy's picture

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