Oxford Dictionaries Online (not the OED, or even the ODE, but a resource that is freely available online) has published its latest quarterly update. New entries include several words and expressions you have probably already heard, including e-learning, hosepipe ban, guilty pleasure and video chat. Genius has gone in as an adjective, and dog food has gone in as a verb – it is used chiefly among computer companies and means ‘to use a product or service developed by one’s company so as to test it before it is made available to customers’. Inbox has also gone in as a verb. There is a new sense of the noun takeaway: ‘a key fact, point, or idea to be remembered, typically one emerging from a discussion or meeting’.
Social networking is responsible for a few entries, including tweeps (a person’s followers on Twitter) and hat tip: ‘(in online contexts) used as an acknowledgement that someone has brought a piece of information to the writer’s attention, or provided the inspiration for a piece of writing’.
My favourite word in the list is mwahahaha, which is ‘an exclamation used to represent laughter, esp. manic or cackling laughter such as that uttered by a villainous character in a cartoon or comic strip’.
Here are all the words.
Oxford has always been the first choice for translation of English to any other language.And its great to know that oxford is updating its day by day.
Posted by: Urban dictionary | January 22, 2013 at 01:27 PM