Aww I love the term 'huggles' - it makes life better! | |
I always liked 'Huggies' better. | |
There's only one z in scrabble... | |
So I'm not the only one who watched The Critic? | |
"Meh" enters Collins English Dictionary? Meh. | |
You're thinking of Quzybuk :) | |
I'm still holding out for "Smex", "Frak", and "Shitpickle". | |
He he he, you said smex. That said, meh is a rockin word, good for you "meh". | |
I'm fairly sure meh predates the simpsons... It may have gained prominence afterwords but still. | |
It does indeed. I'm not even from an English speaking country and I used "meh" way back in childhood (with the same meaning that is). | |
But is "feh" in the dictionary? I use that far more than "meh." (Which is not to be confused with "mah", which indicates ownership.) | |
In the Netherlands we have got mwah, which is basically the same. I'm not sure if it is included in dictionaries though. | |
I always thought "mwah" was the start of an evil laugh mwahahahaha, but meh, whatever. | |
Hoorah! Free mehs for all! ;) Actually, I like this. Tis good to document new words. | |
Meh.... | |
On behalf of "meh", I'd like to thank all the people who made this possible, and allowed "meh" to become a prominent part of daily conversation. CNN, Fox News, The Simpsons, televangelists around the world, boring English teachers, George Lucas, Paris Hilton, Konami, audiophiles, raccoon-hunting enthusiasts... | |
Oh I'm so looking forward to using this in an upcoming essay. | |
My English teacher will shit bricks. But in all seriousness, it worries me how the standard of languages is slowly declining into a state of worserness and worserness....... | |
New words is bad? That's unpossible! | |
I thought it was the sound an 'air kiss' made. | |
Well google chrome still doesnt recognise "meh" as a word, bastards. | |
Simpsons can't claim "Meh", that's for damn sure. 'Meh' is rather like... well... like hic. "Hic" is the sound you make when you hiccup. Likewise, "meh" is any vaguely dismissive vocalisation above a grunt. | |
Well, it is perfectly cromulent word.
That's definitely it's meaning in English. EDIT: Like, when there's some evilness, but not enough for a "MWAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!" | |
Add Craptoast and Christ-on-a-Crutch to that list | |
Meh entering the dictionary is awesome. However, the day kthxbai is entered into the dictionary is the day I start seriously worrying about the future of the English language | |
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"Meh" Enters Collins English Dictionary
Another perfectly cromulent word embiggens the English language.
It started with "D'oh" and now Matt Groening and co. have managed to land yet another one of their made-up words into the English dictionary. In an open call for new words for the 30th anniversary edition of Collins English Dictionary, the apathetic expression "meh" defeated the likes of "jargonaut" and "huggles" to earn a place in the book.
Collins asked that people submit words they use in conversations but are not yet in the dictionary. The word "meh," which was initially featured in a 2001 episode of The Simpsons, rose to prominence early in the internet age as the simplest way to convey indifference or boredom where it is, at times, difficult to judge the emotion of a fellow online user.
"Internet and email are playing a big part in formalising the spellings of vocal interjections like these," explains Cormac McKeown, Collins Dictionaries head of content. "Other examples would be hmm and heh, which are both now ubiquitous online and in emails. People are increasingly writing in a register somewhere in between spoken and written English."
Is it only a matter of time before the nefarious and universally appalling "txt speak" makes its way into our lexicon? Should that day come, at the very least, there will be nothing stopping "Kwyjibo" from becoming a legitimate Scrabble word.
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