Bada-bing! There Are New Words in the Dictionary

Bada-bing! There Are New Words in the Dictionary

NEW YORK, Sept. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- The Bada-Bing, Tony Soprano's gentlemens club on the hit TV show, often attracts the attention of the Five- O. Bada-bing, Five-O, and over a thousand other words have also attracted the attention of the editors of the OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY (WWW.OED.COM). They've all been added to the online edition of the OED as part of the ongoing updates to this authoritative reference tool.

The entry for bada-bing notes that it means "suggesting something happening suddenly, emphatically, or easily and predictably" and cites usage reaching back to 1965 in comedy routines, major newspapers, CBS News, the New Yorker, Esquire, and The Godfather.

Some of the other new and revised entries to the OED include:

pod person
carpet bombing
hard-ass
polysexual
beer pong
police harassment
scooch
pocket pool
Islamophobia
Wi-Fi
avian flu
bling
GLBT
plot point
plumber's crack
plus size
P.O.ed
consumer price index
blow-back
gay-friendly
drama queen

"The English language changes and evolves all the time and the OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY has to keep up," according to the OED's Editor at Large Jesse Sheidlower. "Our editors are currently going through the entire alphabet bit by bit, writing new entries and revising existing ones in order to stay current. It's a massive job and will take years, if not decades, to complete- at which point we'll start over again."

These new and revised entries appear only in the online edition of the OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY, which is updated four times a year.

A complete list of the new words and their definitions in the OED is available online at http://dictionary.oed.com/help/updates/pleb-Pomak.html

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Source: Oxford University Press

CONTACT: Don Myers of Oxford University Press, +1-212-726-6057

Web site: http://www.oed.com/
http://dictionary.oed.com/help/updates/pleb-Pomak.html

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