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Weird words you won’t believe are in the dictionary

Thousands of recent additions highlight the growing influence of online culture on modern English

Weird words you won’t believe are in the dictionary
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28/08/2025 12:45 ‧ 6 hours ago | StarsInsider

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Language can be a playground, and words can be as quirky and unpredictable as the characters in a Wes Anderson film. From "absquatulate" to "MacGyver," the English language has revamped itself to accept the utterly absurd and make it official!

In this gallery, we've compiled 30 words that have breached the fortress of formal vocabulary and landed in the dictionary. So get your notepad out and get ready to write down some of the quirkiest lexemes around. Just click on!

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