Noah Webster published A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language in 1806. His 1828 follow-up contained 70,000 entries. By 1864, the collection had 114,000 ...
Some of the 21st century's newest English words, including "rizz," "dad bod," and "photobomb," have been added to the latest edition of a well-known dictionary. Merriam-Webster, a leading American ...
The Merriam-Webster dictionary added 455 new words to its collection in October 2021. These included words that emerged from online communication, which has only increased amidst the COVID-19 pandemic ...
According to a news release from the dictionary, “Slop” is Merriam-Webster's word of 2025. The word is defined as "digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of ...
The American dictionary defines slop as “digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence.” The human editors of the publisher said that the slop ...