“OH MY GAWWWDDDDD,” tweeted comics writer G. Willow Wilson today, at the announcement that Merriam-Webster had added “embiggen” to its dictionary of the English language, “I’m so floored even my ...

"Embiggens?" says teacher Edna Krabappel during the episode, "Lisa the Iconoclast." "I never heard that word before I moved to Springfield." "I don't know why," responds fellow teacher Elizabeth ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Merriam-Webster added the word "embiggen" to its pages on Monday, the dictionary giant announced, ...

Pop culture plays a huge part in the process of transforming made up, nonsensical words into perfectly acceptable parts of the lexicon. Today, Merriam-Webster announced via Twitter that “embiggen”—a ...

Ever since about 1996, grammatical sticklers are fought against the runaway freight train-esque popularity of “embiggen”—a perfectly cromulent word made famous by The Simpsons that was technically not ...

The publisher added 850 new words, the Greek yogurt sauce tzatziki, the popular term for disaster “dumpster fire,” and “mansplain” in addition to the term “embiggen.” In a tweet announcing the ...

The Simpsons writers are uncannily good at predicting events that have happened years after poking fun at them, but who would've thought they'd set events in motion years ago that would lead to a word ...

Here is your word for the day: Embiggen. Let's use it in a sentence. "A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man." Congratulations. You've just used one of the 850 new words Merriam-Webster has added ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thankfully, AP News did some of that research and reported dozens of the new words. Food and drink slang like guac and marg are on ...

The Marvel Universe is always inspiring new things in the real world, and now thanks to Kamala Khan’s Ms. Marvel we now have a brand new word in the online dictionary. Fans of Kamala will know that ...