Oxford Dictionaries Online Adds New Words Including Photobomb, Mwahahaha and Tweeps

Posted on August 23, 2012

Oxford Dictionaries Online New Words 2012

Oxford University Press has announced the addition of new words to its Oxford Dictionaries Online. Some of the new words include group hug, guilty pleasure, photobomb, lolz, micropig, mwahahaha, photobomb, ridic and tweeps. Here are definitions for some of the new words, according to oxforddictionaries.com.

You can find a list of all the newly added words here.

Image: Oxford University Press



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