New Words in OED

“Techdirt”:http://techdirt.com/articles/20030821/024217.shtml links to articles listing some of the new words in the latest edition of the Oxford Dictionary of English, published today. Here are some samples:

  • bada bing (think Sopranos)
  • muggle (think Harry Potter)
  • cyberslacker
  • egosurf
  • blog
  • prairie-dogging (apparently, a term describing workers in cubicles who raise their heads above the partitions surrounding their desks to see what is going on)