couged it
Couged it refers to the Washington State University Cougars football team. If a team has couged it, they've squandered all their chances for victory and have lost the game. The expression is sometimes used for salvaging a win at…
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Should We Use Emoji In Work Emails?
A few decades ago, if you told someone that people would soon be sending one another electronic messages full of cartoon smiley faces, they would have looked at you like, well, 🙃. But, the future is now, and we do indeed send each other emails, texts, and tweets all day long that contain hearts and sparkles, crying faces and laughing faces, and all sorts of creatures, …
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pretzel logic
Pretzel logic is an expression used to describe someone's "twisted reasoning." -
blep
Who's the chonky boi doin' a blep? In the internet slang of DoggoLingo, a blep is when an animal, often a dog or cat, has a portion of their tongue hanging out of their mouth. -
laldy
In Scottish slang, a laldy is a "beating" or "thrashing." The expression to give it laldy means doing something with lots of energy and vigor, e.g., with gusto. -
mlem
Is that peanut butter on my nose? Mlem! In the internet slang of DoggoLingo, mlem is the sound a dog (or other animal) makes when they stick out their tongue to lick something, especially their own nose… -
Sharpen Your Perspicacity With This Quiz
Shoo away that popinjay, and cozy up to this Word of the Day Quiz. | May 6– May 12, 2019 If the quiz doesn’t display, please try opening in the Chrome browser. Tell us your favorite word from this week below (and share it with your friends on Facebook and Twitter)!
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Scrabble Rules Some Experts Don’t Even Know
What does it take to win a game of Scrabble? Intelligence, mastery of the English language, and a little luck certainly can’t hurt. There are, however, some little-known rules of the game that might give you an even stronger leg up when it comes to laying down those tiles and laying out all your opponents. Here are eight Scrabble rules most people don’t know that …
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NEM
NEM is a popular blockchain platform and cryptocurrency, similar to Bitcoin. Nem is also a word in a number of languages including French ("Vietnamese spring roll") and Portuguese ("neither/nor"), to name a couple. -
What Word Is Your State Looking Up On Mother’s Day?
By now, we trust you’re not looking up when Mother’s Day is. Surely you’re just consulting the dictionary for the perfect words to grace your mother’s card, right? Well, the numbers don’t lie—and especially not to mothers. Our Data Scientists analyzed what users looked up on Dictionary.com on Mother’s Day in 2018 and found these as the top trends by state. They give and they …
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tea
Best served piping hot, tea is slang for "gossip," a juicy scoop, or other personal information. -
ight
If you're hanging in there, having a good time, or if you're just a decent human, you're ight. Ight is black colloquial English for all right.
