Struggling to describe the moment when you come across something cute? Well, not any longer. There is a word for it now, courtesy of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). The expression is called — ...

Gigil, a Philippine word added to the Oxford English Dictionary, decribes the feeling we get when we see someone or something cute Ever found yourself speechless in the presence of overwhelming ...

Respondents to an annual Michigan college survey of overused and misused words and phrases say “6-7” is “cooked” and should ...

Precise definitions for “bussin,” “chitterlings” and “cakewalk” will be distributed to the world in 2025 with a new dictionary issued by Oxford University Press. Last year, Oxford University Press ...

The English language grows a little more every year. It becomes richer, warmer, and more diverse as people across the world create new words. It borrows expressions from other cultures or changes the ...

The phrase topped LSSU's list of banished words for 2026 but was also named Dictionary.com's Word of the Year. The reference ...

Four times a year, a group of wordsmiths at the Oxford English Dictionary survey the evolving landscape of the English language to see what new words they should incorporate into what's been ...

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has added new words from various languages, acknowledging their common usage in English. These additions include terms from South Africa, Malaysia, Singapore, the ...

You can’t call someone a frutescent snollygoster anymore—at least not officially. Those words have been deleted from the dictionary, so you’ll have to come up with alternate terms to describe a ...

Each year, the lexicographers at the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) update the prestigious tome with new words. In 2022, over 650 new words were added, ranging from slang and tech terms to pop ...