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Positively KC

A word, if I May.

Several, as a matter of fact. And they're new.

Merriam Webster just added more than a hundred new words to its Collegiate Dictionary.

Do you know what they mean?

Air quotes. Everybody knows this one, right? What's that grandma? You don't get it? Well, "consult" your new "dictionary".

Edamame. A lot of people think it's a newly-popular vegetable unlike anything they've ever eaten.

Mondegreen. (This is my personal favorite!!) Know what it means? And why?

How about Netroots?

Along with the 100+ words officially added, you, too, can add words you've come up with. Examples of some reader-submitted, unofficial words:

duhvious (adjective) : so obvious that your first thought is; duh.
        Of course she got the question correct. The answer was duhvious.

galcoholic (noun) : a female alcoholic : a woman who enjoys the party lifestyle, going out for drinks with her friends, and who occasionally binge drinks.          After hearing about all of her wild partying and drunken-debacle stories, I fear she is becoming a galcoholic.   

flabdominals (noun) : rolls of fat on the abdomen that obscure the muscles of the torso 
            A pint of beer, rather than sit-ups, will help define your flabdominals.

kabobable (adjective) : suitable for cooking on a skewer 
            I know we have some chicken and some mushrooms; do we have anything else that's kabobable?

The list of made up words goes on, and on. Quite entertaining to read.

 

 

 

 

Published Monday, July 07, 2008 8:05 AM by Christa Dubill

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