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Thread started 03/15/05 2:31pm

Mach

'Wedgie' Added to Webster's Dictionary

'Wedgie' Added to Webster's Dictionary





CLEVELAND - Wedgie, a teenager's locker-room nightmare, has made it into the dictionary. Webster's New World College Dictionary based in Cleveland said wedgie was among its new additions to its latest edition.



The new edition will carry this listing: wedgie: noun. a prank in which the victim's undershorts are jerked upward so as to become wedged between the buttocks.


The dictionary also carries the tradition wedgie definition of a type of shoe.


"`Wedgie' was always a part of the high school terminology that you sort of never thought about later," said Editor in Chief Michael Agnes.


"It never really entered the mainstream until the '90s. It broke out of high school and, boy — if you don't know what it is, you're absolutely at a loss."


The new edition will reach bookstores by May and has 58 new entries, plus another 20 new senses of existing words (such as wedgie).


The additions include Al Qaeda, blog, cargo pants, irritable bowel syndrome and partial-birth abortion
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Reply #1 posted 03/15/05 2:37pm

jayaredee

Wow i love the english language
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Reply #2 posted 03/15/05 2:37pm

Mach

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Reply #3 posted 03/15/05 6:05pm

Kayleigh

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eek
Time flies like an arrow
Fruit flies like bananas
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Reply #4 posted 03/15/05 6:56pm

Mach

Kayleigh said:

eek


lol
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Reply #5 posted 03/15/05 6:58pm

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Reply #6 posted 03/15/05 7:04pm

SammiJ

jayaredee said:

Wow i love the english language

aint it grand?
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Reply #7 posted 03/15/05 7:14pm

ReturnOfDOOK

What about "covered wagon"? Is that gonna be in the thesaurus?
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Reply #8 posted 03/15/05 9:11pm

Mach

ReturnOfDOOK said:

What about "covered wagon"? Is that gonna be in the thesaurus?


eek i dunno
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Reply #9 posted 03/15/05 9:30pm

ReturnOfDOOK

Mach said:

ReturnOfDOOK said:

What about "covered wagon"? Is that gonna be in the thesaurus?


eek i dunno


Look into it. Report back to me by end of day.
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Reply #10 posted 03/15/05 9:33pm

Mach

ReturnOfDOOK said:

Mach said:



eek i dunno


Look into it. Report back to me by end of day.


umm.. your fuckin kidding right ? lol cuz now... i simply WONT nana


you didnt say PLEAZE man ...sheesh rolleyes
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Reply #11 posted 03/15/05 9:41pm

ReturnOfDOOK

Mach said:

ReturnOfDOOK said:



Look into it. Report back to me by end of day.


umm.. your fuckin kidding right ? lol cuz now... i simply WONT nana


you didnt say PLEAZE man ...sheesh rolleyes

mad
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Reply #12 posted 03/15/05 9:43pm

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And a very valuable additionz it is too nod geek woot!
No hablo espanol,no! no no no!
Pero hablo ingles..ssii muy muy bien... nod
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