📚 50 Surprising New Words Added to English Dictionaries (AARP Article)

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FROM THE ARTICLE.

What the Heck Does 'Delulu' Mean? Dictionaries Define These 39 Words Popularized by Young People.

‘Touch grass’ and ‘broligarchy’ are among the unique recent addtions to our collective vocabulary.

By Andre Ellington, AARP.

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Published August 20, 2025.

The English language is constantly changing over time, and never more so than in recent years, as our online existence speeds the spread of new expressions, particularly by younger generations.

The 39 words and phrases below are among the many that have been recently added to the Cambridge Dictionary (CD), Oxford English Dictionary (OED), Dictionary.com (D), which relies on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary as a source, or Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (MW). Some of these words and phrases appear in more than one dictionary. Some of them you may have used (like “doomscroll”); others are on the stranger side (see: “no cap”).

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It has been YEARS since I used a dictionary.

Lol, at age 67 I have to "roll" my eyes at what words are now in one.