soo woo
🎵 Lemme hear ya say "Soo woo soo woo, soo woo, soo woo!" 🎵 The term soo woo—along with variants like suhwoop, soo woop, and woop woop—is a greeting and identifier used by the fellow gang members in the…
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unsult
An unsult is a backhanded compliment, i.e., an insult packaged as a compliment. -
What Is An “Influencer” And How Has This Word Changed?
By Jane Solomon The word influencer has been used in English since the mid-1600s, though of course back then it wasn’t a job title. In recent years, the term has become a catch-all for a certain kind of career track that is at the center of a burgeoning but profitable industry. As influencer continues to expand in English and pull new terms and meanings into …
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Auspicate The New Year With This Word Of Day Quiz
Noodling your way through 2019? Start with this week’s Word of the Day Quiz! If the quiz doesn’t display, please try opening in the Chrome browser. Interested in Words of the Day from the past? Check out this one that we brought to life … Tell us your favorite word from this week below (and share it with your friends on Facebook and Twitter)!
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take lines
The phrases take lines and take a line are horses of two very different colors. Take lines can refer to using someone else’s work, usually as a form of plagiarism, while take a line can also refer to using drugs,… -
you’re so sound
You’re so sound is something you might say to someone you admire, especially in the UK and Ireland. Sound, as a slang adjective, can mean "excellent." -
Ultima Thule, Bandersnatch, And Other Trending Words On Dictionary.com
Thanks to the holidays, we’re serving up two weeks worth of words that have trended on Dictionary.com! From Santa Claus to outer space, here’s what had folks searching for meaning December 21, 2018–January 4, 2019. Ultima Thule Space fans spent the week watching as NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew by the most distant space object ever explored. Dubbed Ultima Thule, the object is some 4 billion miles …
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bigly
Bigly is a word popularly believed to have been made up and used by US President Donald Trump, meaning "to a large amount" or "with great intensity." It is most often used in mockery of… -
gank
We aren't trying to gank you—which is to say, steal from you, con you, or to take you out in a video game. We wouldn't gang up with our friends to gank you, either. -
The Most Searched Words Of 2018 On Dictionary.com
What could words like laurel, dog whistle, lodestar, and self-made possibly have in common? These words and others like them sent hundreds of thousands of folks to Dictionary.com in 2018, searching for answers. Whether you were challenging your friends and family to declare themselves #TeamLaurel or #TeamYanny or playing armchair detective with the words in a cryptic New York Times op-ed, Dictionary.com was here to …
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Where Does Champagne Get Its Name?
Champagne has been associated with luxury, special occasions, and rites of passage since the days of French royalty when kings were anointed with bubbly. But not just any bottle of the sparkly stuff gets to be called a champagne. Where did this festive libation get its name? And what makes a champagne a champagne? What champagne is made from Champagne is a sparkling wine made …