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Urban Dictionary: Urban Dictionary was created as a parody of the stuffier, more formal dictionaries.

Who defines slang now? The slow, ironic decline of Urban Dictionary

December 23, 2025 2:44 pm

From internet slang to institutional seal of approval, the long road from Urban Dictionary to Big Dictionary.

Today, rage bait can cover everything from fabricated stories and anecdotes about someone’s daily life to issues linked to politics and wider conspiracy theories.

What Oxford Dictionary’s Word of the Year, 'rage bait', says about today’s internet

December 01, 2025 6:15 pm

What does rage baiting mean, why did Oxford choose this word, and what does it say about the world in 2025? We explain.

Cambridge Dictionary names parasocial word of the year

Psychologist believes Cambridge Dictionary’s 2025 Word of the Year -- parasocial -- highlights 'real shift in how people form connections today'

November 18, 2025 2:30 pm

Parasocial relationships aren’t new, but social media has intensified them because creators share their lives in ways that feel personal, accessible, and emotionally charged.

Delulu is the Solulu? Not for dictionaries

September 02, 2025 1:19 am

By codifying internet slang too quickly, traditional dictionaries risk mistaking virality for vitality—and losing their unique authority

Dictionaries, The Cambridge Dictionary has added words born in the chaos of TikTok such as “skibidi,” “delulu” and “tradwife.”

The dictionary just went full skibidi — sorry, grammar snobs, ‘delulu’ is legit now

August 31, 2025 2:25 pm

TikTok slang such as “delulu” and “tradwife” are not the death of English. It is proof that the language is alive, unruly and very much of its time.

Untranslatable words inducted into Oxford English Dictionary highlights fluidity of languages

April 09, 2025 6:57 am

Among the Dictionary's picks are the Tagalog word “gigil”, now a fixture in Philippine English, and other words of Asian origin, such as the Malay expression “alamak”.

Try gigil (pronounced ghee-gill), a Tagalog word that was among the 42 so-called untranslatable terms from various countries and regions — including Southeast Asia, South Africa and Ireland — that were added to the Oxford English Dictionary on Thursday

Overwhelmed by cuteness? There’s a word for that

March 28, 2025 4:58 pm

Borrowed words from other languages have long found their way into English, especially as they spread around the world and come into contact with other cultures.

Discover why brain rot was named Oxford’s Word of the Year for 2024.

What is brain rot?

December 11, 2024 6:50 pm

While the term feels decidedly modern, its roots go way back.

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How 'crowdsourcing' helped create the Oxford English Dictionary 140 years ago

March 21, 2024 5:05 pm

Murderers, Karl Marx's daughter, women with male pen names and writer JRR Tolkien were part of the barrier-breaking volunteer program that helped finish the first Oxford English Dictionary in 1884.

A world full of mistrust

December 10, 2023 6:46 pm

According to common parlance, “authentic” means the somewhat superficial sounding adage, “Be yourself”, except, often enough, who “you” is, remains a confounding mystery.