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Below are some of the new words to enter the most recently published dictionary of current English: the Oxford Dictionary of English (Revised Second Edition).

bindaas
• adjective Indian informal carefree, fashionable, and independent-minded: Bombay's most bindaas babe.
— origin Gujarati bin-das, literally ‘without servitude’, from Sanskrit vina + dasya.

boo2
• noun US informal a person's boyfriend or girlfriend.
— origin 1980s: origin uncertain; probably an alteration of French beau ‘boyfriend, male admirer’.

cariad
• noun Welsh darling; sweetheart: how's it going, cariad?
— origin Welsh, ‘love’.

chillybin
• noun NZ a portable insulated container for keeping food and drink cool.
— origin from a proprietary name.

chugger
• noun informal a person who approaches passers-by in the street asking for donations or subscriptions to a particular charity.
— origin blend of charity and mugger.

chupacabra
• noun an animal said to exist in parts of Central America, where it supposedly attacks animals, especially goats.
— origin Spanish, literally ‘goatsucker’, from chupar ‘to suck’ + cabra ‘goat’.

clueful
• adjective informal having knowledge or understanding of something; well informed: clueful helpline operators.

cockapoo
• noun a dog that is a cross-breed of an American cocker spaniel and a miniature poodle.

dadah
• noun [mass noun] (in Malaysia) illegal drugs.
— origin Malay, ‘medicine, drugs’.

dramedy
• noun (pl. dramedies) a television programme or film in which the comic elements derive mainly from character and plot development.
— origin early 20th cent.: blend of drama and comedy.

eighty-six
• verb [with obj.] N. Amer. informal reject, discard, or destroy: the only reason she hadn't eighty-sixed him before now was out of affection for his son.
— origin 1930s (as a noun, used in restaurants and bars to indicate that a menu item is unavailable or that a customer is not to be served): perhaps rhyming slang for nix1.

fanboy
• noun informal a male fan, especially one who is obsessive about comics, music, film, or science fiction.

greige
• noun [mass noun] a colour between beige and grey.
— origin blend of grey and beige, perhaps influenced by French grège ‘raw (silk)’.

Hinglish
• noun [mass noun] informal a blend of Hindi and English, in particular a variety of English used by speakers of Hindi, characterized by frequent use of Hindi vocabulary or constructions.

judder bar
• noun NZ a speed bump.

labradoodle
• noun a dog of a breed developed as a cross between a Labrador retriever and a poodle.
— origin 1980s: blend of Labrador2 and poodle.

mitumba
• noun [mass noun] (in eastern and central Africa) second-hand clothing, especially that donated by aid agencies in the West.
— origin Swahili, plural of mtumba, literally ‘bale (of cloth)’.

molecular gastronomy
• noun [mass noun] the application of scientific principles to the understanding and development of food preparation.

offshoring
• noun [mass noun] the practice of basing some of a company's processes or services overseas, so as to take advantage of lower costs.

overdog
• noun informal a person who is successful or dominant in their field.

peedie
• adjective Scottish little; small: a schoolteacher much loved by all her peedie bairns.
— origin 1920s: alteration of peerie.

picturize (also picturise)
• verb [with obj.] adapt (a story or screenplay) into a film.
— derivatives
picturization noun.

podcast
• noun a digital recording of a radio broadcast or similar programme, made available on the Internet for downloading to a personal audio player.
— derivatives
podcasting noun.
— origin early 21st century: from iPod, a proprietary name for a personal audio player.

retail politics
• plural noun [also treated as sing.] US a style of political campaigning in which the candidate attends local events in order to target voters on a small-scale or individual basis.
— origin early 20th cent.: first referring to the practice of paying for votes.

supersize
• adjective larger than average or standard sizes; extremely large.
• verb [with obj.] [often as adj.] (supersized) greatly increase the size of: supersized suitcases on wheels.

trolleys (also trollies)
• plural noun Brit. informal underpants or knickers.
— origin late 19th cent. (originally dialect): of uncertain origin.

wiki
• noun a website or database developed collaboratively by a community of users, allowing any user to add and edit content.
— origin from WikiWikiWeb (1995), coined by the US programmer Ward Cunningham (b.1949), from Hawaiian wiki wiki ‘very quick’, reduplication of wiki ‘quick’.

yebo
• exclamation S. African used to show agreement or approval; yes.
— origin Zulu.

[Ian]

My favorite on that list has to be labradoodle! Sounds like a cross between a dog and a Magnadoodle.

Ian

[CTerry]

I must say I do use 'dramedy' a lot. Probably because I watch a lot of 'dramedy'.

[Keith J. Kacin]

Haha, they are adding fanboy? Nice.

But "boo"? That is annoying.

[jazz77]

those are interesting...

i have few words too in my inbox. one of which is:

regale \rih-GAY(uh)L\, transitive verb:
1. To entertain with something that delights.
2. To entertain sumptuously with fine food and drink.

intransitive verb:
To feast.

noun:
1. A sumptuous feast.
2. A choice food; a delicacy.
3. Refreshment.

[//Nathan]

I can't remember where, but I read that Wiki is really an akronym for "What I Know Is". It fits, a little.

Quite sad if Podcast is going in the dictionary. Isn't that a new feature in the latest iTunes?

Wouldn't "Hinglish" and its definition be considered demeaning to those who speak Hindi? But then they had that movie called "Spanglish" and no one said anything.

A couple of those, "clueful" and "overdog", don't make sense or sound right... they're just reversals of "clueless" and "underdog".

[Keith J. Kacin]

Podcasts have been around for quite awhile. iTunes is finally just catching on.

[LoR*Evanescence]

Those are some interesting new words. I think the only one I have heard befor is podcasting.

[angelSakura]

hmmm....another words added to my dictionary...

[Anthony T.]

I just wrote mine in, not worth the cash to go and buy a new one

[Why Two Kay]

WIKI and Podcast, interesting words to add. Although defragment and blog are both there in previous years.

[Nimdock]

Chupacabra? Really? Hehehehe, I find that rather funny being so used to it...

[mapia]

those are interesting stuff