Monday, June 27, 2022

A few of the new words for the Oxford English Dictionary

 I guess if you were cut off from all news you could get a pretty good idea of what's been going on in the world.

  • cyah, v.: “‘Cannot’, ‘can’t’. Cf. cyan, v.”
  • cyan, v.: “‘Cannot’, ‘can’t’. Cf. cyah, v.”
  • daebak, n., int., and adj.: “Something lucrative or desirable, esp. when acquired or found by chance; a windfall, a jackpot.” and other senses
  • dandy shandy, n.: “Originally: (a brand name for) a type of non-alcoholic fizzy drink. In later use also: a drink consisting of a mixture of beer and ginger beer…” plus one more sense…
  • decarcerate, v.: “transitive. To free (a prisoner or prisoners) from incarceration, now often as part of a wider initiative to reduce the prison population by…