What was the last word added to the Oxford dictionary?

Answer 1

Perpituariumitist

Answer 2

Zed

Answer 3

http://www.askoxford.com/worldofwords/newwords/?view=uk

Answer 4

email

Answer 5

Below are some of the new words to enter our 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.