“We’ve just added 1,400 new words and definitions, a glow-up to our iconic dictionary.”
The new entries reflect words and meanings that have demonstrated widespread use over time, offering a window into the world today.
Among the new entries, social media culture provides the well-defined looksmaxxing, the unrequited parasocial, the ever-dangerous Rickroll (that link is harmless, we promise), and for some investors the potentially more dangerous meme coin. Congratulations to promposal for getting picked, and to letterboxing for a new digital sense to go with its 19th-century pastime.
There are many more, and each is accompanied with a definition.
And now, from the Merriam-Webster Exhaustion site.
We’ve just deleted old words and old phrases to our hitherto known dictionary. “Make some noise,” aka “Make some nouuyyzzzz!”
Inspire me to make some noise and I’ll give you plenty of nouuyyzzzz.
“Show them some love, everybody; show them some love.”
Inspire me to love them by just letting them play or speak. (Taking me out to a nice dinner might also help.)
Be a good Host. Let them speak. Okay?
“Sure, no problem.”
“Sing me no song! Read me no rhyme! Don't waste my time, Show me! Don't talk of June, Don't talk of fall! Don't talk at all! Show me! Never do I ever want to hear another word. There isn't one I haven't heard. Here we are together in what ought to be a dream; Say one more word and I'll scream!”
“Show Me,” from My Fair Lady: Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner.
