Taken from the Philippines' Tagalog language, gigil is a "feeling so intense that it gives us the irresistible urge to ...

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deals with morphemes and the meanings of common morphographic changes within words, for example, word inflections and the changes that inflectional and derivational endings produce in assigning new ...

New words from around the world have been added to the Oxford Dictionary as they have become so commonplace in the English language. These terms are 'untranslatable', meaning they do not have an ...

It will essentially send alerts of new words daily with the meaning behind them and some interesting facts as well. The new feature is quite similar to the app Dictionary.com that shares a new ...

"All this talk of food might inspire one to get a takeaway, or to tapau," OED said, referring to another new word which originated from Mandarin and the Cantonese dialect, meaning "to package ...