Oxford English Dictionary adds 'crap shoot,' 'bathroom break' and more
By Christian Nillsson
Every three months the Oxford English Dictionary announces words that will be added into its reference collection.
On Thursday, the OED added nearly 900 new words including "bathroom break," "beat boxer," "scissor kick" and a lot more that we can't exactly write here (scroll down and take a look in the 'C' section in the 'new words' area).
My favorite addition is "dead white male." A noun describing "a dead caucasian male writer, philosopher, etc., whose pre-eminence is challenged as disproportionate to his cultural significance, and attributed to a historical bias towards his gender and ethnic group."
Other words on the list include "bookaholic," "e-ticket," "do-over," and dozens of words that relate to honey.
The last update saw words like "twerk" and "selfie." Those useless words will be joined by the newly added "bestie."
Check out the full lists here:
New words
beatboxer, n.
bestie, n.
Blu-Tack, n.
Blu-Tack, v.
bookaholic, n.
book-building, n.
bookend, v.
bookwoman, n.
chugger, n.2
chugging, n.2
Coney dog, n.2
Coney Island, n.
coney, n.3
crap shoot, n.
cunnilingue, n.
cunted, adj.
cunting, adj.
cuntish, adj.
cunty, adj.
de Moivre, n.
death spiral, n.
Dem, n.1 and adj.
demo, n.3
demo, n.4
demo, v.
demobilized, adj. and n.
demodulated, adj.
demodulating, adj.
Demogorgonian, adj.
demonizing, n.
demonstre, v.
demosponge, n.
Demosthenical, adj.
demotivated, adj.
dichloromethane, n.
dichoreus, n.
dichotic, adj.
didact, n.
diotic, adj.
D-lock, n.
do-over, n.
down-ballot, adj.
E ticket, n.1
emics, n.
empath, n.
Empedoclean, adj.
empodium, n.
empowered, adj.
empowering, n.
empyemic, adj.
epistlar, adj.
epistropheus, n.
epistylium, n.
ere-done, adj.
ese, n.
etherizing, n.
Ethical Society, n.
Ethiopical, adj.
ethnobiology, n.
ethnobotanic, adj.
ethnohistoric, adj.
ethnomathematics, n.
ethnomedical, adj.
ethnomycology, n.
ethnonationalism, n.
ethnonationalist, adj. and n.
ethnopharmacologic, adj.
ethnopharmacological, adj.
ethnopoetics, n.
ethnopolitical, adj.
ethno-religious, adj.
ethnos, n.
ethnozoology, n.
ethoxide, n.
ethoxylate, n.
ethoxylated, adj.
ethoxylation, n.
etics, n.
Etnean, adj.
exfoliator, n.
hegemonial, adj.
hegemonicon, n.
hegemonism, n.
hegemonistic, adj.
hegemonize, v.
Herod, n.
herogram, n.
heroine-worship, v.
heronite, n.
hero-worshipping, adj.
hero-worshipping, n.
Hon'ble, adj.
hondle, v.
honest-like, adj. and adv.
honey bush, n.
honey trap, n.
Hong Kongese, n. and adj.
Hongkonger, n.
honing, n.2
honk, n.2
honk, v.2
Honkers, n.
honking, adj.2
honky-tonker, n.
honour code honor code, n.
honouree honoree, n.
Hons., n.
imperial purple, n. and adj.
imperialine, n.
impervium, n.
Miaphysite, adj. and n.
mitsuba, n.
monotic, adj.
Naqada, adj. and n.
Old Etonian, n. and adj.
over-under, n. and adj.
quadrupla, n. and adj.
Right Hon., adj. and n.
Rt. Hon., adj.
science fantasy, n.
sciency, adj.
scientific socialism, n.
scientific socialist, n. and adj.
scientifical method, n.
scientificality, n.
scientificness, n.
Scientological, adj.
scientometrics, n.
scillin, n.
scintilla juris, n.
scintiscan, v.
Sciotic, adj.
scissored, adj.
scissoring, adj.
scissor-kick, v.
sciurid, n. and adj.
semaphore signal, n.
shvitz, n.
shvitz, v.
sword and sorcery, n.
synesis, n.
syntactico-, comb._form
syntagmatics, n.
toilet-paper, v.
TP, n.
TP, v.
tropacocaine, n.
Tropicalia, n.
tropicalismo, n.
tropically, adv.2
tropilla, n.
vato, n.
wackadoo, adj. and n.
wackadoodle, n. and adj.
New subentries
aperture stop
assisted living
bathroom break
bee orchid
birth control pill
birth pill
boiled sweet
book bag
book clasp
book cloth
book collection
book contract
book corner
book critic
book designer
book editor
book fest
book festival
book group
book launch
Book of Hours
book of rules
book pocket
book publisher
book publishing
book reader
book report
book smarts
book squaring
book thief
book value
book voucher
book-build
booked out
booked up
booking agency
booking agent
booking fee
booking form
booking hall
book-loving
book-smart
book-to-bill ratio
brake light
butterfly cake
Cape honeysuckle
centre chief
centre chief point
cinder toffee
Columbian mammoth
Columbian mammoth white
constructive empiricism
constructive empiricist
cunt lapper
cunt-bitten
cunt-sucker
dead white European male
dead white European man
dead white male
dead white man
death angle
death assemblage
death benefit
death cell
death certificate
death cloth
death drive
death glare
death grip
death instinct
death notice
death penny
death stare
death sweat
death tax
death toll
death-bringer
death-feigning
death-fetch
death-giver
declarative memory
deep discount
democracy deficit
Democracy Wall
Democracy Wall Movement
democratic deficit
demographic transition
demon possession
demonic possession
demonstration disc
demonstration model
demonstrative adjective
demonstrative adverb
demonstrative determiner
demoware
dichoptically
dichroic fog
DIYer
DWF
DWM
DWM
emperor angelfish
emperor bream
emperor butterfly
emperor dragonfly
emperor of Japan
emperor tamarin
emperor-god
emphaticness
emphysemic
empire biscuit
Empire Games
Empire Marketing Board
Empire of the Rising Sun
empire of the sun
empirical philosopher
emplaced
employment counsellor
employment equity
employment figure
employment law
employment lawyer
employment legislation
employment office
employment protection
employment rate
employment rights
employment statistics
employment tribunal
employment visa
employment-related
empowerer
empty chair
empty net
empty promise
empty-eyed
empty-headedness
empty-netter
entrance pupil
episodic memory
epistomal
ethene oxide
ether drift
ether extract
etherified
etherifying
ethical dilemma
ethnobotanically
ethnocentrically
ethnomycological
ethnomycologist
ethyl fluid
ethyl nitrate
ethylene dibromide
ethylene dichloride
ethylic alcohol
ethylic ether
Eton fives
etymological dictionary
exotic fruit
explicit memory
file sharer
file sharing
formal language
guest of honour
HBCU
hero myth
hero's welcome
Heroes' Day
heroic fantasy
hondling
Honduras rubber
Honduras rubber tree
honey barge
honey bunny
honey crop
honey eucalypt
honey gum
honey jar
honey mustard
honey myrtle
honey parrot
honey pie
honey sac
honey sugar
honey tree
honey-blonde
honeycomb quartz
honeycomb rock
honeycomb-like
honey-covered
honeyfuggling
honey-glazed
honey-golden
honeymoon cystitis
honey-roast
honey-roasted
honey-scented
honey-skinned
honey-sweetened
honey-voiced
Hong Kong Chinese
honked off
honorary contract
honorary white
honour bound
honour guard
honour society
honourable ordinary
Honoured Society
honours system
honour-seeking
Hons. degree
imperial Amazon parrot
imperial blue
imperial eagle
imperial parrot
imperial roll
Imperial Tokay
Imperial Tokay wine
Imperial Wizard
implicit memory
left-click
lexical semantics
liminally
limit bag
limit case
limit order
limitation of liability
limited audit
limited-access
limited-stop
not to know what to do with oneself
one can do without
one cannot be doing with
one could do with
science experiment
science fair
science journal
science lab
science laboratory
science museum
science park
science professor
science-fictiony
science-led
science-oriented
science-related
scientific calculator
scientific creationism
scientific creationist
scientific journal
scientific Latin
scientific name
scientific racism
scientometric
scientometrical
sci-fier
scimitar oryx
scimitar-bill
scimitar-billed babbler
scimitar-horned oryx
scintillation cocktail
scirrhous cord
scissor-tailed flycatcher
semantic bleaching
semantic borrowing
semantic consequence
semantic field
semantic loan
semantic memory
semantic net
semantic network
semantic primitive
semantic web
speed limiter
sponge candy
syntactic consequence
syntactic-grammatical
syntactic-morphologic
syntactic-morphological
syntactic-phonologic
syntactic-phonological
syntactic-pragmatic
syntax error
TBH
to book in
to book out
to book up
to do off
to do over
to do with -
to do without -
to honk off
toilet accessory
toilet attendant
toilet bag
toilet chair
toilet cleaner
toilet cubicle
toilet facility
toilet furniture
toilet joke
toilet mirror
toilet mouth
toilet-papering
TPing
transcendental ego
transcendental self
trophic chain
trophic pyramid
tropical cyclone
tropical depression
tropical forest
tropical fruit
tropical island
tropical medicine
tropical rain
tropical rainforest
tropical storm
wild columbine
wood avens
New senses
breach, n.
button, n.
draw, v.
element, n.
emic, adj.
ferret, n.1
filter, n.
filter, v.
search, v.
shot-gun shotgun, n.
sweet, adj. and adv.
tick-tock, n.
tone, v.