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28 Words Rejected From The Oxford English Dictionary That You Might Want To Use
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Have you ever struggled to find the perfect word meaning the exact thing that you are feeling or the exact thing that is happening? The Oxford English Dictionary might contain 171,476 words - but despite frequently adding cool words from the modern lexicon (including bae, yeesh, and hasbian), not all of them make the cut.
The Book of Everyone is a platform dedicated to finding out weird curiosities and facts about the world. We discovered that there's a secret (not so secret anymore) vault owned by the Oxford University Press that stores interesting words that have been rejected to be included in the dictionary. Over the last year, we've posted these delightful, unused, and rare words on our Facebook page and are now sharing the collection here with you! Scroll down below to check out this unofficial dictionary words vocab, and don't forget to upvote your favorite weird words!
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What's the criteria for rejection? 'Wibble-wobble' has been a phrase in use for a long time. Wibble, used by itself would be a natural evolution of use.
There's actually a food truck that runs in my area that is called Locavore. I still think it's a funny word/name. In my head it means someone who eats trains.
Dear Kates, if you say "quote on quote" one more time, I will barf. One day we counted the number of times you used that term for your 15 minute presentation, it was TWENTY TWO TIMES!!
Shouldn't that be precuperate? Like recuperate pre illness? It's also easier to say than percuperate.
Also called an outdated person and a fool for doing that while driving.
These are sniglets
Yes, Rich Hall. I bought his "Sniglets" book back in the 80's.
Thanks for teaching me a new word!
Comedian Rich Hall came out with these in the 80's or 90's. It's kind of a shame that they haven't attributed them to him.
People have to start using the words before the dictionary can consider them.
I'm wonder why some words change meaning over time. What makes them reject to these words.
Lack of usage. A word has the have considerable usage, usually over time and in print media, before it is considered to be dictionary worthy.
These are sniglets
Yes, Rich Hall. I bought his "Sniglets" book back in the 80's.
Thanks for teaching me a new word!
Comedian Rich Hall came out with these in the 80's or 90's. It's kind of a shame that they haven't attributed them to him.
People have to start using the words before the dictionary can consider them.
I'm wonder why some words change meaning over time. What makes them reject to these words.
Lack of usage. A word has the have considerable usage, usually over time and in print media, before it is considered to be dictionary worthy.