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The Oxford English Dictionary stays current and relevant by adding new words every year. Here are just a few of this year’s entries! How many do you know?
Hot Mess
Totes
Birdhouse
Catnap
Declutter
Jeggings
Meh
Sexting
Retweet
Twerking
And many more!
QUESTION: Which word on this list of new OED words is most interesting/surprising to you?
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So don’t we get definitions? I, for example, want to know what “meh” means.
Carolyn, here you go!
“Birdhouse”? “Catnap”? Are these new definitions to old words I don’t know about, or were they very, veeerrrryy slow to adopt them? (I mean, “retweeting” and “sexting” can’t be more than ten ears old–maybe fifteen for “sexting”)