Making up words isn't immature. It's just a way of highlighting that the dictionary can't keep up with the rapid evolution of the English language -- or any other language, for that matter! That's ...

The Prince Dictionary: 10 Words Made Up by the Musician and What They Mean. The superstar, who died on Thursday, invented his own sexy, spiritual lexicon.

Dictionary.com says it doesn't make up words – words are added "because they’re real – because they’re really used by real people in the real world." ...

To say children's book author Roald Dahl had a way with words is like saying Violet Beauregarde occasionally chewed gum … don’t be such a vermicious knid. Dahl invented his own language by ...

The word was made up by writer David X. Cohen and was added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary earlier this year. The word means "perfectly acceptable," and Simpsons fans have been rallying for ...

The tool also allows users to enter their own made-up words, which can then be used as jumping-off points for definitions. Each new word and definition even comes with a very plausible usage case ...

The 566 new words added to Dictionary.com are from a variety of topics including pop culture, slang, modern problems, AI and climate.

Part 1 of the TED Radio Hour episode Decoding Our Emotions.. About John Koenig's TED Talk. When we can't describe how we're feeling, we say we "have no words." But in his made-up dictionary ...

Siblings seek to honor late father by adding his made-up word to dictionary 02:41. Boston — All you want is a nice, peaceful breakfast. So you slice open an orange or grapefruit and get ready to ...

Here is your word for the day: Embiggen. Let's use it in a sentence. "A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man." Congratulations. You've just used one of the 850 new words Merriam-Webster has ...

She didn’t look up the word. She didn’t even look up the word “word.” If she had, she’d know that “shizzleschlep,” which I just made up, is a word.

Some of the words from ThisWordDoesNotExist.com need to make it into the dictionary. Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images Sometimes, I feel so damn happy I just want to break out into a skunkie.