![]() “We also turned verb into a verb so you can play verbed and verbing,” said Merriam-Webster’s editor at large, Peter Sokolowski, a smile on his face and a word-nerd glitter in his eye during an exclusive interview with The Associated Press.įauxhawk, a haircut similar to a Mohawk, is potentially the highest scoring newbie, he said. The new words include some trademarks gone generic - dumpster for one - some shorthand joy like guac, and a delicious display of more verb variations: torrented, torrenting, adulted, adulting, atted, atting (as in don’t at me, bro). The book was last updated in 2018 through a longstanding partnership between Hasbro and Merriam-Webster. Out this month, the add-ons in the seventh edition of “The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary” join more than 100,000 words of two to eight letters. ![]() Your convos around the board are about to get more interesting with about 500 new words and variations added to the game’s official dictionary: stan, sitch, convo, zedonk, dox and fauxhawk among them. NEW YORK - Here’s the sitch, Scrabble stans.
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