Title: Scrabble will never be the same.. Post by: RED-DOG on August 29, 2015, 10:51:54 AM These are new additions to the Oxford English Dictionary. Say it isn't so.
Awesomesauce (adj.): Excellent Beer o'clock (and) wine o'clock (n.): whatever time of day you start drinking beer or wine Bruh (n.): a more casual way of saying "bro" to refer to a guy friend Cupcakery (n.): a store where you get cupcakes Fast-casual (adj.): a self-service, high-quality restaurant where you get made-to-order meals that is more costly than a fast-food restaurant Fur baby (n.): a person's coddled furry pet Hangry (adj.): what happens when you get so hungry you turn irritable Manic pixie dream girl (n.): a character, usually in movies, who is over-the-top perky and quirky and whose main use is to help a male character get more out of life Manspreading (n.): when a man sits down and opens his legs wide apart in a way that eats up the seats or spaces next to him Mkay (exclamation): "OK," but a more mumbled version, usually added to the end of a statement Title: Re: Scrabble will never be the same.. Post by: baldock92 on August 29, 2015, 01:50:20 PM Hangry is definitely how we've all felt the morning after a few too many shandies
Title: Re: Scrabble will never be the same.. Post by: Graham C on August 29, 2015, 03:35:29 PM Some of those aren't even single words, how can they be in the dictionary?
Title: Re: Scrabble will never be the same.. Post by: RED-DOG on August 29, 2015, 03:41:07 PM Some of those aren't even single words, how can they be in the dictionary? Apparently there's a phrases section. :dontask: Title: Re: Scrabble will never be the same.. Post by: Graham C on August 29, 2015, 04:09:33 PM Pfff, times have changed.
Title: Re: Scrabble will never be the same.. Post by: Tal on August 29, 2015, 04:45:11 PM Dictionaries have phrases in and always have. You see a squiggle in the definitions
So, the word with the largest number of column inches in the dictionary is SET. One of the uses will be a noun meaning a fight and it will be a SET TO, written ~ to It's nothing new. Title: Re: Scrabble will never be the same.. Post by: Sheriff Fatman on August 29, 2015, 10:53:20 PM http://youtu.be/DWkiWtqgOWc
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